Blog Articles
-
Mistakes I’ve Made #7
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 #7: Thinking I know Best Now I need to be honest here. Telling you about this
-
Institute for Youth Work?
Do we need an ‘Institute for Youth Work’ and who gets to decide what it does? At the moment, it’s certainly not you and I. Children & Young People Now reported last week (registration required) that ‘A consortium of youth organisations is exploring the creation of an independent body to provide youth workers with a
-
Dialog in 140 Characters: Youth Ministers on Twitter
So yesterday, @sparticus started a conversation on twitter that quickly gained momentum with a number of Christian youth workers. His original tweet was: http://twitter.com/sparticus/status/59947269595725824 He later explained it in a post on his site: As far as I’m aware [my tweet] a complete lie, but it sparked a discussion around what was reasonable to pay
-
Managing Your Time Better: Ideas for Busy Youth Workers
Something I’ve been struggling with for a while, especially since taking on more responsibility and oversight for a number of different areas in my job, is about managing my time better. Generally I have a good sense of what is important, and usually manage to achieve what is needed in the right timeframe, however I
-
Connected Generation 2011
Connected Generation 2011 is an UnConference around engaging young people through digital means, organised through the youth work online network. I went to the 2008 event which I blogged about here, but couldn’t do the 2009Â or 2010 events. Here’s the basic details on this year: Date: Saturday 21st May 2011, 10:00am – 4:30pm Location: ‘The
-
Electronic Communication Guidelines
After posting our Social Media Policy the other week, I’ve found a great additional resource that may be of interest to those that found it helpful. Jon Coombs is a youth pastor at Canterbury Baptist Church in Canterbury, Australia. He has written up and published on his blog a far more comprehensive document titled ‘Electronic Communication
-
From The Archive: The Future of Statutory Youth Work
From the archive is a series of posts highlighting content previously posted on this blog that may be new to some readers or helpful to revisit: In light of the cuts across the statutory youth sector, this post looks at an interestingly prophetic talk on the death of statutory youth services given by Tony Jeffs
-
WITFD?
As usual, Paul Martin got me thinking! In a post last week he proposed that the common phrase ‘What Would Jesus Do’ (WWJD) while a reminder of Christ’s actions, is actually missing the point. He points us in the direction of [youversion]John 5:19[/youversion]: Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing
-
Easter Assembly: Bad to Good
The following is an Easter assembly for use in secondary schools that has a focus on the cross as a symbol of hope. Aim: To explain that Easter is more than chocolate eggs, and to explore the idea that bad things (like a torture implement) can be used for good. Intro: Introduce yourself and the
-
Social Media Policy
Dave Johnson and I have been working on drafting some guidance around use of social media and networking within our organisation. I finished off the policy yesterday, so thought I would share it here as I’ve had two separate conversations with people this week who were looking for advice on how best to implement
Search the blog for more articles