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Youth in 1982 vs 2012

Posted in Children's and Youth Work on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Over at Creative Youth Ideas I saw this interesting infographic showing the difference between youth 1982 and youth today:

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Generation “C”

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society on March 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

From Mashable It’s hardly news that young adults are the most digitally connected, but now Nielsen has come up with a new name for this group based on their common behaviors: “Generation C.” The C stands for “connected,” and the group comprises Americans between 18 and 34 — who are defined by their digital connectivity, Nielsen and [...]

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Adolescence and the Loss of Apprenticeship

Posted in Children's and Youth Work on March 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Trevin Wax posted on how he came across an article recently in The Wall Street Journal titled“What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?” It explores the cultural changes leading to a contemporary vision of “adolescence”: In gatherer-hunter and farming societies, childhood education involves formal and informal apprenticeship. Children have lots of chances to practice the skills that they need to accomplish their [...]

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How do you discern the conversion of a child?

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Church, Theology on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Brian Croft: There are commonly 2 extremes as we all wrestle with this question. The first is the careless lack of discernment of many churches who have an alter call for 4-5 year olds, ask them to raise their hand if they love Jesus, then baptize them as converted followers of Jesus. The other extreme [...]

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The Millennials

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society on January 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I spotted this over on Dylan’s blog, go check it out: As with many infographics this data is based from America, but it has much to apply to the UK situation.  Some key points 1. Use of technology -  75% on a social networking site and 20% having posted a video. This is a generation [...]

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Books I have read: The Search to Belong

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work, Church on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been to countless seminars and read probably dozens of books on small group ministry.  For the past couple of decades, we have consistently heard that the right small group programs will grow our church, create fully-devoted Christ-followers, ease the burden on pastors, return us to New Testament Christianity, etc., and I’ve said those things [...]

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Books I have read: Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work, Church, Theology on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Doug Pagitt is a lead pastor at a church in Minnesota called Solomon’s porch.  Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church is about his journey away from the program centred mega-church into a more organic, decentralized community.  He talks about some new ways of viewing spiritual formation that are quite different [...]

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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society, Statistics on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute has recently been published: Key points In the year to 2009/10, the child poverty rate fell to 29%, the second fall in two years. Child poverty fell by around one-seventh under [...]

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Books I have read: Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work, Church, Theology on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation by Gordon Smith is one of those books that has slipped under the radar (I had never heard about it until a few months ago), but it really should be widely read.  We would do well to think about conversion and the impact the type of conversion can have on [...]

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Youth Justice Board saved from quango cull

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Politics on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The BBC has reported how the Youth Justice Board has been saved from quango cull: The government has abandoned plans to scrap the Youth Justice Board, minister Lord McNally has announced.  The Ministry of Justice said the youth justice system still needed reform but, “following careful consideration”, the board would be saved. The board was set up [...]

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