leadership in ministry
On Friday I spent the morning at a meeting of Christian Youth Workers who are discussing setting up a network. To help us think about what the network should be and how we could describe it Neil Pratt from ICC led us through a discussion on ‘what is Christian Youth Work?’. I’ve always been a Read More …
The National Youth Agency (England) have just published an interim report from a study into Youth Worker’s attitudes to Social Networking. The project blog is here. Not surprisingly only 35% of youth workers felt able to help young people take advantage of the opportunities of Social Networking as opposed to 53% who felt they should Read More …
I spent last night as the guest of the girls of the 25th Edinburgh Girls’ Brigade Company at their annual display. They entertained me and their significant adults with songs, games, dancing and the officers even performed their hilarious homage to the Spice Girls. I’m sure there are photos somewhere… The highlight for me was Read More …
I’m about to head off to Carberry Tower near Edinburgh for 24 hours to our Synod Programme Committees. On the agenda for me are Children and Communion and Safeguarding as well as working with the Children and Youth Ministry Committee on our future plans for the Synod Youth Forum and some other stuff in the Read More …
iChurch is, in my humble opinion, the best idea I’ve seen in ages. If you are a URC congregation who either wants a website but think it is too hard to set up and run or are paying for web hosting, trying to design and update your site and all that then ichurch is the Read More …
Ramble Alert! OK. I’m not sure where this post is going but stick with me and hopefully it will get somewhere… I’m working on some aims and objectives for my job. I tell everyone I train to do it so it’s practice what you preach time. The thing is… I can write down the stuff Read More …