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Guest Post: Emily Hewson
Over the years I have been doing youth work, I have had the privilege of connecting with a many other workers doing a wide variety of excellent things! I have asked a few of these individuals to write about their experiences of working with young people in their particular context. This post is written by
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Back To School Assembly
The following is an assembly plan that I wrote for schoolswork.co.uk and was published in Youthwork Magazine in the August 2010 Issue. Back To School Assembly The following set of activities are adaptable ideas for use in an assembly at the beginning of the new school year. The overall theme is on having a positive
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Funding Your Youth Project
A number of weeks ago, a conversation started between youth workers on twitter about finding funding to help support the work they do. I was able to share a few links to websites that I have used in the past, and I thought these links might be of use to others too. As a caveat
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Youth Workers or Youth Ministers?
“From its early beginnings as a response to social need, Christian youth work has been concerned with the well-being of young people. This has most commonly been outworked by an army of volunteers, yet in the last decade there has been a huge growth in professional training and qualifications for employed youth ministers. In this…
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Mistakes I’ve Made #8
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #8: Not believing in myself This may seem a strange topic to follow on from Mistake
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Youth Leaders Academy
A blog that I’ve found myself reading more and more over the past few months is Youth Leaders Academy written by the lovely Rachel Blom. Originally from The Netherlands and currently residing in Germany, Rachel writes in English on experience of working with Christian young people and is consistently coming up with brilliant,
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From the UK to the US: Youth Ministry Observations
I was recently interviewed by Jeremy Zach for his website REYouthPastor.com. Jeremy has been a youth pastor in the states for a number of years and currently works for Orange in the Student Ministry department. His writing on his personal blog has always been passionate and not afraid to put things out there to try
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Young People & Religion
Last week I went to the Young People & Religion conference at Kings College London. It was an opportunity for researchers to share some of their initial findings from their work under the Religion and Society Research Programme. The Religion and Society Research Programme is a collaborative venture between the Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Institute Update – More Info on Plans for Youth Work Sector
Last Thursday I met with the lovely Diane Evans, National Programme Manager at the National Youth Agency (NYA). Diane had kindly responded to my critical blog post on an Institute for Youth Work, and we met up to discuss where this idea had got to and what it might mean for youth workers. A bit
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LoveMonday
Last week, a little revolution started on twitter with a small number of youth work types. The idea was simply to pick three of your followers and encourage them with a little tweet, adding the hashtag #LoveMonday and asking them to do the same for three of their followers. It went surprisingly well
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