I am a Youth & Children’s Minister who is 37 years old.I spend most of my free time with my own family, or playing golf. In the late 90s when I was actually somewhat in-touch with kids I worked with I always tried to relate fashions and fads to the bible teaching I was helping…
I love this idea, and my church is in the middle of a discussion on Facebook about these ideas. Until recently there had been a rota for all the jobs – sidesperson, server, intercessions, reader, coffee making and so on. However, it tended to be only the more established members of the congregation who could…
I have installed and uninstalled a million apps in my time. I have installed an uninstalled Evernote more than once. Over the last few months my whole ministry admin revolves around Evernote, to the point now I am even an Alpha and Beta Tester for new Evernote products! Evernote is rapidly becoming a great one-stop-shop…
Sometime ago, whilst working for the Salvation Army I thought a lot about uniforms and those thoughts led me to write a short blog where I reflected on my days working as a barman for a famous nightclub in Liverpool, UK. I didn’t take the idea to Christian places, and I am not certain I am…
This is an amazing post by Rob Trenckmann with some practical information for anyone who works with teens because sometimes teens just clam up. Model good questions. ”Ask the questions they want to ask, but are afraid to. And ask the questions that they should be asking, but don’t know it yet.” This was the advice…
A while back I studying the gospels and realised my pre-conceived ideas about the first disciples being poor fishermen wasn’t correct, so I blogged about it. I’m reading about disciples with houses and/or reasonably wealthy families, so where does that leave the rest of us… Maybe this is good news? I still haven’t settled on…
HEY YOUTH WORKER! Have you been working too hard? Sure you have! Do you need a NAP? Sure you do! What you need is…… GOOGLE NAPS Oh yeah.. this is actually a thing now.
This week, along with the regular posts, I am going to be reblogging (as if thats even a word!) some of my old blogs. Firstly so that they are all in the same place (this website) and secondly because I think they contain some ideas that I have found helpful. Community is a big word…
