Some more youth ministry links and thoughts:
- Teenage girls ‘living on one meal a day’: Teenage girls are regularly skipping up to two meals a day because they think they are overweight, according to a new survey examining children’s lives.
- Auschwitz launches a Facebook page: The Polish authorities in charge of Auschwitz have launched an official site for the former Nazi death camp on the social networking website Facebook. A spokesman said the move was aimed at reaching the younger generation and educating them about the Holocaust.
- Facebook cuts drop out rates : Social networking websites such as Facebook are helping to reduce college drop-out rates, Gloucestershire College says social networking is used to keep students informed and in touch with staff.
- Supergirl meltdown: How middle-class girls today are under unprecedented pressure to succeed: Perfect grades, perfect bodies, perfect boyfriends, welcome to Generation Supergirl – the young women who are supposed to have everything.
- Cleaning Up an Event As You Go: Josh has some great tips on cleaning up events quicker, we’ve been trying to do something similar with our Friday night youth work.
- Points of Clarification for Young People: Michael Wade points some humourous observations for young people to take note of.
- The youth specialties/zondervan/youthworks story, from where i stand: Marko blogs on the YS/Zondervan news of the last few weeks.
- Catalyst, NYWC, Open Space and Future Conventions – part 1, part 2, and part 3: Mark Riddle expresses stuff that I really agree with about ministry conferences, I don’t always want big names, I want real ministers.
- The Brett Favre – John Piper Conspiracy: Stephen highlights John Pipers influence.
- Ministers Need Friends: awesome post by Adam on the need for support outside of church
