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Preaching Christ Crucified

The National Youth Ministry Convention 07 was lots of fun! I met some great people, was reminded of some incredible truths and have been challenged to trust in God and not myself. There were just under 500 people at the convention and it was exciting to meet so many who are passionately proclaiming Jesus in [...]

NYMC07 – Live Blogging

I’m at the National Youth Ministry Convention 2007. As the only ‘youth vanguard’ representative here I’ll be doing some live blogging over at my blog.
(Click here for some live blogging I did at a youth convention at the start of the year)

Ultimate Reality – an evangelistic night at Crossfire.

Last Friday night, Crossfire had its first evangelistic night – “Ultimate Reality”. It was part of Annandale Community Church’s ‘Start the Ultimate Relationship’ week, and was a great night.
Here’s how we planned what we did on our night:
1. First step was choosing the Bible passage for the evening. Although we had a groovy name for [...]

Journal of Youth and Theology

I recieved the first JYT for the year a couple of weeks ago. There are four essays in this issue:

Beyond a Godless Understanding of Youth: Why Exegesis Matters of Youth Ministry

Towards an Adolescent Hermenutic

Faith in Networks: Religious Education of Dutch young adults in a ‘post-ecclesial’ era

From ghetto to communitas: Post-Soviet youth ministry and leadership [...]

The Church Office – Episode 2

What people are doing online

This is a helpful graph from business week (click image to make it bigger). It shows the way in which different generations are using the web. (H/t marko)
The implications for youth ministry in Australia (assuming that the AUS figures are similar to the US figures above) are that we cannot ignore the web. Here’s [...]

Teenagers dealing with parents

Can I commend to you one of the best things to come out of CCECYOUTH this year? It’s our latest J-walk magazine. It was all about Parents and how to help teenagers to deal with their families in different circumstances. I’m keen for the material to be spread widely. I already know of a number [...]

Swing into Action 2007

THIS IS A GREAT CAMP!! We are for year 7-11’s and we still have room for more campers! It’s from July 1-6. Please pray… but also think of youth group kids you can encourage to come along. It’s encouraging for Christians – but also a great opportunity for Christians teens to [...]