A quote from Epictetus that I’ve heard many times:
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
It leads to something interesting questions:
How can you use this quote to improve your pastoral care?
How can your team use this quote to improve the atmosphere at youth events?
Is this [...]
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Western Oregon Sara Tucholsky hit her first career home run with the help from Central Washington. She wrecked her knee running back to 1st as she missed it initially. The Umpire ruled that if she didn’t run the bases by herself, the home run wouldn’t count. If her teammates touched her, it would be void.
The [...]
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This looks like an awesome thing to do with a bow of milk. I want to try this and see if we could use it in a group session:
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Scripture Union seem to be really picking up the pace in the last couple of years. They have just launched Light Live which is a massive catalogue of material available to you FREE! It contains 10,000 free online activities – with 650 more added every 3 months.
Designed by Scripture Union to help you tailor material [...]
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Saw this video on youtube - made me think about diversity into unity, and the role the church has in bringing people with some very diverse ages, personalities, thoughts, styles of worship etc. to be unified around the gospel message.
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Last night I was involved in a youth group and some of the young people were chatting with me about Facebook. I think Facebook is great, but one of the youngsters was explaining how she didn’t use it anymore as one of her friends was cyber-bullied on it.
Schools struggle, at times, with dealing with bullying [...]
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Maggi posted about Biblical food, linking to an article on Times Online which includes the Bible Bar:
The seven foods of Deuteronomy, Wheat, Barley, Raisins, Honey, Figs, Pomegranates, Olive Oil, are packed into this Bible Bar providing “nutrition God’s way”.
And let’s not forget Cross Pops:
The sacred cross dipped in synthetic sugar.
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I’ve written before about writing thank you cards to volunteers. Alongside that we try and write regularly to each of our young people, especially if we don’t see them for a week or two.
I saw a variation on this over at YouthMinistrySupport.com. Scott suggests getting young people to write to their own peers:
One activity we [...]
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The TES printed a series of articles a while ago on behaviour. One of them looked at the issue of those pupils who never stop talking. It is an interesting article, one that can be applied both to schools and ministry within a church. (You may need to register with the TES website to access [...]
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Each month I want to start adding some of the stats from the blog. Here are the top 10 posts for the month of April:
About Chris Kidd
Deleting ‘Policing Innocence’ - CCPAS Qu
… And we’re back!
Should homework be banned?
New National Occupational Standards for
Independent Safeguarding Authority - an
Sacha Baron Cohen’s (Borat’s) church pra
Scot McKnight’s weekly [...]
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