http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community Youthwork Community forum, for Christian Youthworkers. en-us 20 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5036#5036 I would appreciate that, thanks! Where can I get the Steven Curtis Chapman resource? http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5036#5036 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:32:51 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5023&CatID=2&Post=5035#5035 jonmc wrote: "Hello All I am doing a session in a few weeks on sin, the week before I am talking about God´s love, and the session on sin, is going to look at when sin came in the world was corrupted. Would like to know has anybody ever seen the song "where is the love" played with images of broken things Any help would be appreciated Thanks" Are [..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5023&CatID=2&Post=5035#5035 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:05:13 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5034#5034 gor wrote: "Hi guys - I´m looking for resources on the topic of Hope. What I want to achieve by the end of the session is that everyone understands what it means to have Christian hope. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Gary" Hey Gary. I´ll try and look out some stuff which would be usefull. Another resource which may be helpful is the intro and song "where is the hope" by Steven Curtis Chapman. The intro in[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5034#5034 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:55:31 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5033#5033 Hi guys - I´m looking for resources on the topic of Hope. What I want to achieve by the end of the session is that everyone understands what it means to have Christian hope. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Gary http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5033&CatID=2&Post=5033#5033 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:12:03 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5032&CatID=2&Post=5032#5032 Hello We are running The Arts & Music Leader Training Programme. The course is designed for people in the Arts and Music sector to boost their skills and employment with in these industries Regards CM Sounds Arts & Music Leader Training Programme The Arts & Music Leader Training Programme is a unique opportunity for those with a background in Music and/or arts to gain valuable knowledge and experience of teaching and working within a community music setting. The programme ex[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5032&CatID=2&Post=5032#5032 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:48:28 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5031#5031 ... before retirement my husband was a C of E vicar, and as part of his self-employed (which of course he wasn´t but that´s what the tax-man sent) tax assessment forms, he had pages headed "Minister of Religion". Now I am assuming that the extra tax is due not on your salary/stipend, but on what is considered "Benefits in Kind" (ie the house, council tax, etc.) As a minister of religion there is an "understanding" with the tax man that a quarter of the "benefit" is for the job and there are [..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5031#5031 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:50:44 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5030#5030 Do you mean you haven´t been paying tax at all? Or that you paid some and then were given a bigger bill? Sadly I think if you haven´t been paying tax, this is bad on your employers side. If they thought they could get away without paying it they obviously hadn´t checked well enough! They should be doing the usual PAYE system. As youth ministers (and I´m the same CofE position as you) we like to think of ourselves as being very similar to an ordained minister, but in many ways we´re diff[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5030#5030 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:01:16 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5029#5029 Do you mean you haven´t been paying tax at all? Or that you paid some and then were given a bigger bill? Sadly I think if you haven´t been paying tax, this is bad on your employers side. If they thought they could get away without paying it they obviously hadn´t checked well enough! They should be doing the usual PAYE system. As youth ministers (and I´m the same CofE position as you) we like to think of ourselves as being very similar to an ordained minister, but in many ways we´re diff[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5029#5029 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:01:16 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5028#5028 Hi, As a full time (non-ordain CofE) youth & children Minister I have a good package: house, council tax an water payed (no complaints!) However, the tax mans (or woman´s) eyes have lit up and wallop, a big fat bill has come up! Now I gather that if I was ordained, I could get this tax free! However I am not, so an stuffed. Any one else in a similar situation? Any advise? http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5028&CatID=2&Post=5028#5028 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:14:27 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5027#5027 That comment about a game reminds me - there was a person I knew who used to walk into the middle of conversations and simply give a load of ´either/or´ questions (really mundane things like Whisper or Aero, Harry Potter or Twilight) - but it doesn´t take too many until one sparks a good conversation. http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5027#5027 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:32:15 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5026#5026 Graham, Good on you for understanding you struggle in the way of continuing conversation. Takes alot to admit it from what ive seen of people. As mentioned, open questions work very well. Anything that avoids a yes or no answer. I have found myself in a similar situation before and I played a simple game. Got the young people together and played 2 truths and a lie. Really basic game where people do as the title says. allows you to not only have a giggle about some lies people say but [..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5026#5026 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:31:16 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5025#5025 Think of some ´open´ questions - things that cannot be answered with one word. So rather than ´How´s your week been?´ which could be answered ´ok´ - end of conversation - try ´What´s the best thing that´s happened this week?´. I accept someone could really be picky and say ´nothing´ - but that opens up a whole other line of questioning - like ´oh dear, sounds bad - well what was the least negative thing?´ Usually, though, people will say something like ´when I reached level 80 on WoW´ (pos[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5025#5025 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:35:09 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5021&CatID=7&Post=5024#5024 This looks like really interesting venture - I hope you get the right person! I am convinced family, rather than youth work, is where the future is. However, if you publicise your job on an open forum I guess you´re ok with a little debate... It looks to me like you are after a self-motivated, theologically aware person (as well as the interpersonal skills you mention). I´m guessing you don´t want someone who needs every one of their 10 hours having to be intensively managed. I guess, in s[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5021&CatID=7&Post=5024#5024 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:26:19 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5023&CatID=2&Post=5023#5023 Hello All I am doing a session in a few weeks on sin, the week before I am talking about God´s love, and the session on sin, is going to look at when sin came in the world was corrupted. Would like to know has anybody ever seen the song "where is the love" played with images of broken things Any help would be appreciated Thanks http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5023&CatID=2&Post=5023#5023 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:49:17 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5022#5022 We run a youth hangout where we have around 50 unchurched young people coming in. It is proving a great place to build relationships. Whilst I feel I am confident talking to young people when I get going I do struggle sometimes to open conversation and maintain it initially. I do the how are you, how was your week but then I go blank. Has anyone got any ideas on how to open up and maintain conversations? and/or know of any resources that could help. http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5022&CatID=1&Post=5022#5022 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:50:56 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5021&CatID=7&Post=5021#5021 Part-time Young Families worker - South Buckinghamshire The High Wycombe Methoidst Circuit has a policy of putting additional lay support into churches for specific projects. We are now looking for someone to work Part-Time in the Flackwell Heath area on an initial one year fixed term contract as a Young Families Worker. This may be extended after a review at the end of the initial period. The position is for someone to work with the minister, congregation and ecumenical partne[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5021&CatID=7&Post=5021#5021 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:25:52 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5020#5020 Dear Malcolm Yes, they can. In Marlow we appointed just such a person as a Youth and Community Worker jointly between the four Anglican and two Methodist Churches - and he works closely with the Youth Workers at two local Community Churches. Pete´s comment that young people are denominationally blind is important. The crunch point as to whether such an appointment and project can work is the attitude of the folk - and most specially the leadership - in the sponsoring churches - and as a chur[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5020#5020 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:04:16 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5019&CatID=1&Post=5019#5019 Hi all, hope everyone is well. Over the past few weeks I have been thinking how i can assist others in the work I am passionate about. The only thing i could think of other than moving away was to start a website. The website allows you to read about various bits of information in the world of youth work. Also, the site contains some session ideas that you could use in your projects. There is not very much on there at the moment however more is being added daily so keep checking :) [..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5019&CatID=1&Post=5019#5019 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:53:15 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5018#5018 I have used The shock of your life by (I think) Adrain Holloway, also we have given out a lot of the small Christianity Explored book by Rico Tice, which was in preperation for running a course but stands by itself very well. For Uni folks we use Fresh by Krish Kandiah. We also use a lot of biographies Bruce Olsen is a particular favourite. http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5018#5018 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:43:24 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=2092&CatID=7&Post=5017#5017 samwar10 wrote: "Hi I´m working on a dissertation at the moment regarding the above and would really like to hear your views - do you think people are born homosexual or do you think it is personal choice? Is Christianity prejudice against homosexual people? All comments and opinions greatly appreciated to assist with my research. Many thanks" Have just had[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=2092&CatID=7&Post=5017#5017 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:30:55 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=4982&CatID=2&Post=5016#5016 mdhsmith wrote: "Hi I´m currently doing AS Levels and looking at a career in Youth Work. I have a friend doing a CYM course and the practical side really appeals to me more than 100% studying. Can anyone give me a comparison between Oasis and CYM, (or another if I´ve missed it)? I am really struggling to find some clear answers online. Any guidance or comments would greatly be appreciated!" ___________________[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=4982&CatID=2&Post=5016#5016 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:03 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5015#5015 The Vision and The Vow - Pete Greig Storylines - Andy Croft & Mike Pilavachi The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel No Girls Allowed - Alex Taylor & Darren Hill Life Actually - Jenny Baker You and God - Elaine Carr Cherished - Rachel Gardner No Angel - Kathy Lee Soul Sista - Beth Redman Transformed - Linvoy Primus The Lord of the Ring - Phil Anderson Fresh - Krish Kandiah http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5015#5015 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:27:22 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5007&CatID=2&Post=5014#5014 Earlier in the year we used Scripture Union´s SUsbtance Volume 2: http://www.scriptureunion.org.uk/53521.id There are some excellent experiential sessions in there! http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5007&CatID=2&Post=5014#5014 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:10:20 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5013#5013 In my experience yes. In fact, not just ´yes´, but I believe youth workers can function ecumenically better than those working with adults, because the people we are working with have less of an attachment to the status quo. It´s another area where youth work is pushing the church forward theologically. As with other concerns above though, it´s not whether you can or whether it will work with the young people - it´s whether the people paying you have the vision! http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5013#5013 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:00:47 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5012#5012 Malcolm wrote: "We have started an ecumenical Community Youth Project in our village of 9,000 people where there are four churches - Methodist, Anglican, Catholic and Independent. We are responding to the spiritual and recreational needs of 11-16 year olds. We hope to employ a Christian Youth Worker to help the leaders in the four churches individually, as well as work with ecumenical groups of young people from all four ch[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5012#5012 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:19:17 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5011#5011 Hi Malcolm The answer is "Yes" A youth worker can function ecumenically. However it does bring certain limitations for the role and the person fulfilling the role. We have an ecumenical youth worker project here in Keyworth which covers 2 churches with quite different churchmanships as well as working with the other 3 churches in the village. The youth worker along with the Methodist youth worker (me) work with all the 5 denominations in the village. It is more challenging than just worki[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5011#5011 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:51:05 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5010#5010 We have started an ecumenical Community Youth Project in our village of 9,000 people where there are four churches - Methodist, Anglican, Catholic and Independent. We are responding to the spiritual and recreational needs of 11-16 year olds. We hope to employ a Christian Youth Worker to help the leaders in the four churches individually, as well as work with ecumenical groups of young people from all four churches together. We are advised that a youth worker cannot do this job, as she/he wou[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5010&CatID=7&Post=5010#5010 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:14:39 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5009#5009 I am looking for recommendations of the best books for young people to read to encourage, equip and inspire them in following Jesus. I am thinking 10-18 year olds, so if you could let me know what books have made an impact on your youth group that would be marvellous. http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5009&CatID=2&Post=5009#5009 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:01:30 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5001&CatID=2&Post=5008#5008 Hi! Youth For Christ resources are fab...I believe Mettle would the one that would be good for your group! God Bless Raych :)_____________________________________________________ widdy wrote: "Hello beautiful people, I am leading a Sun morning small group of 14-16s and i would like some suggestions for a teaching resource, something which has a template i can use.. Its just i actually prefer to design my own but i feel its taking too much time to do so and sometimes ends up bein[..] http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5001&CatID=2&Post=5008#5008 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:22:48 +0100 http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5007&CatID=2&Post=5007#5007 Hi! In September we´re going to be looking at the Kingdom of God in Church and the young people always follow the same topics! HAs anybody got any ideas of how best to approach this with 11-15 year olds? Thanks Raych http://www.youthwork.co.uk/community/Forum/Posts.asp?subject=5007&CatID=2&Post=5007#5007 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:20:17 +0100