musings on ministry
The new edition of Spill the Beans is out and the material starts from Trinity Sunday (26 May) and goes through to Pentecost 14 (25 August). As usual there are great resources from a hugely talented team for children and young people and those who lead and enable worship. You can download a free sample Read More …
Here are 5 ways you can improve your work with young people. 1. Consult Ask your young people what they like, what they don’t like and what they want to learn/do/try. Sounds simple doesn’t it, but very few youth leaders actually do this well. Lots of us have an agenda, or we think we do. Read More …
Over the next few weeks for the first time there will be some guest posts appearing here on StewartCutler.com. Why? Well, because sometimes a change of voice, a different perspective and some interesting insights help us to get our heads around a problem or an issue. I think my guests will bring some great words Read More …
Who knew that reading was so… enlightening! I’m in the final (hopefully) throws of the dissertation and I’m battering away at a couple of sections before editing my findings. The parts getting attention just now are about ‘the Church and social capital’ and ‘youth work strategy’. The social capital discussion has been really interesting. I Read More …
This morning the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland heard the report of the Church and Society Committee. First up was the ‘Growing Up in Scotland‘ report. I was on the group which wrote the report so I was glad to see some good deliverences (motions) coming from the report. I’ll pick out the Read More …
I think I’ve decided to do my research for my masters on the use of social media in church-based youth work in Scotland. I could of course change my mind again but on reflection this seems to be something that would be both interesting and worth doing. I’d still like to have a go at Read More …
We’re working on a level 1 youth work course. That is, a basic course for volunteers and people who are new to youth work. What would you include? What do you think youth workers need to know?