Blog Articles
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All I want for Christmas is…
one of these (although I don’t think Kirsty would allow it)! How cool!
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Moving On…
No I’m not jacking in my job, moving to a farm and living off my own home produce… rather Kirsty and I have finally taken the plunge after 6 years of saving and have bought a house!! It’s a lovely brick mid-terrace built in the 30’s and is just round the corner from work and…
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Learning To Discipline
It can be very difficult to know how to discipline young people when you are a young leader yourself. On the one hand you desperately want them to like you and to feel one of the gang, on the other hand it’s important that you have some level of authority over them. This can be…
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An Explanation
Since I decided to focus this blog on the field of youth work back at the weekend, many different links have started appearing in the sidebar to the right as I’ve found relevant resources. I use the excellent del.icio.us for all my bookmarks and have started tagging links with ‘youthwork‘ for all related pages (and…
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Jesus reveals future… on ebay?!
I know this isn’t about youth work (although I could always link it in), but I thought it was too good to pass up. For the measley sum of $15,000 (Buy It Now) you can be the proud owner of four revelations from none other than Jesus Christ! Yes ebay does it again with another…
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Starting Out
This week I’ve got the pleasure of the wonderful Emily on work experience, so I was already thinking about training and introductions to youthwork when I got an email from Rosie asking to shadow me for a day. This promted me to try and find a good practical and theoretical framework to help explain Christian…
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Focus
Whenever we have a team meeting for the church youth group, I constantly have to remind the leaders to focus their attention. This is somewhat difficult to achieve as there is around 18 leaders each week, all of whom want to socialise while I’m desperately trying to ascertain exactly which young person broke the light…
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Moving on
For those of you who didn’t know, Kirsty and I put in an offer on a house a few weeks ago. We were only casually looking around and it was just the second property we’d seen, but it just seemed like a great place to live. Also it’s a big step for us as we’ve…
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MySpace Muggings
The tables have turned… No longer is it safe to assume that as an adult you are safe in internet chatrooms as this story suggests. From the article: “A 22-year-old Florida man has been held up at gunpoint after going to meet an 18-year-old he made contact with on the MySpace network.According to reports, Ernest…
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Wikipedia ate my hamster!
Well not quite, but it seems the online user-editable encyclopedia is having trouble with verifying its content!
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