Jon Jolly

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of its values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To look at what it means to [...]

I came across this quote on Taking Thoughts Captive from Martin Luther the German theologian and reformer from the 16th century regarding how Christian parents should raise their children:
If [bringing up children in the fear and knowledge of God above all things] were done, God would also richly bless us and give us grace to [...]

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of its values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To understand how we should go about [...]

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To learn about how Jesus chose his [...]

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To introduce and explain the Ignite vision [...]

Last Sunday we ran a joint youth event with St Margaret’s Angmering and St Peter & St Paul’s Rustington called iWorship. The purpose was to hang out, have a meal and worship together allowing a chance for the youth to get to know young Christians from the other churches. It was a great event and [...]

I was reading Dave Johnson’s post about what rss feeds he subscribes to and it got me thinking it would be good to recommend a few of the blogs that I read too.
I subscribe to hundreds of different feeds from around the web ranging from youth ministry and human interest through to technology and research. [...]

You may have noticed a link appear at the top of the page to ’shop’. This because I’ve added an Amazon Associates store to this website. Basically it’s an opportunity for me to promote books, resources and materials that I’ve found helpful in my youth work. Over time, the products will grow but for now [...]

Yes it’s my birthday and I’ve had a busy old day! I started out at 8:30am with a Year 9 assembly that got promptly cancelled when a tree fell onto the learning support block! The hall needed to be used to house the students and we had to clear out before I started.
I then [...]

We’ve recently been tackling some difficult themes at Fuel, our church youth group for 15’s+ and the most recent was the topic of Homosexuality and the Bible. The following is the notes that I prepared for the evening and they were designed as a discussion starter. As such they are in no way a comprehensive [...]