Some links from the world of youth work and youth ministry:
- Clear Names for Your Youth Ministry and Youth Group Events: we’ve been doing things similar to Josh’s post using tbcYouth as our ministry brand, and naming things like the tbcYouth Cafe – simple, clean, easy to understand.
- Marko has some great version of scripture for youth workers: Psalm 23, 2 Corinthians 11 & 12, selections from Exodus 3 & 4
- Youth Workers: You Will Never Arrive: Josh writing on how we never reach the goal
- On being CRB’ed for schools: Tim writes an interesting post on the benefit of being CRB’ed by a school rather than just using your organisations CRB.
- YWN Article: Who would gain from a licence?: Jon writes about the youth work licence in the UK.
- Bible study discussion application questions: Matt McGill writes a whole load of useful questions to ask any bible passage.
- Youth Alpha Talkbuilder: Jon points us to a great resource from the Youth Alpha team.
- Study looks at the effects of violent TV and games: “Violent films, video games and TV shows DO make boys aggressive,” according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper says that the study of teenage boys on which this news story was based also found that “the more violent the scenes and the longer they last, the more normal the behaviour seems”.
- Relational Time: Do you have a strategy for how you spend time with students and volunteers?
- Give Your Family the First 30 Minutes: something I can really struggle with.