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 how we can use [...]

Just a quick post to say that we had an EXCELLENT church service this morning totally prepared and led by the young people!
As part of the World Vision 24 Hour Famine, the group fasted from 6pm Saturday night and then delivered a creatively challenging service on the theme of global poverty. As well as [...]

So I’ve taken up the challenge from Andy at Issues For The Christian Youthworker to think about the young people that have impacted me and my work.
There are quite a few who I could name for a number of reasons, so I’ll try and be concise.
Rosie, Anna and Emily have all taught me a lot [...]

I’ve recently been writing an assignment on providing accredited training for youth work volunteers and have realised that I’ve not seen anywhere a simple explanation of the route to becoming a professionally qualified youth worker. There is lots of information available out there regarding youth work training, but none of it is laid out in [...]

Here’s a promo video for the excellent work being done by Regenerate in Roehampton, London.
It really reminds me of the sort of creative youth work we did at The WIRE here in Littlehampton. Different area, similar approach.

Ht: Paul S. via email

No, he wasn’t heavily into some computer game, instead former youth pastor Calvin Wayne Inman, 29, has been charged for the death of a convenience store clerk during a robbery. He was 16 at the time.
Apparently after being recently ordained and with support from his church, Inman went to the Police and confessed to the [...]

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 what serving is and why [...]

I made a new friend and found a new personal hero last week in a man called Jason. I met him because a friend had suggested that I give him a call: “He just needs some advice on raising teenagers” she said!
Although I have no children of my own yet, I arranged to meet up [...]

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 find out how we can live [...]

Our local leaders fraternal
Since starting my role at ACC, I’ve spent a bit of time meeting up with Youth Workers from other churches in the local area. Although there’s a few of us, a gathering had rarely happened before and so it’s been good to share coffee, stories, and recently events with these [...]