musings on ministry
My MacBook is home and all fixed. My couple of days being laptopless have been interesting. Here’s what I learned: Old windows laptops suck I have a very old (8 years) laptop with a massive 500mb RAM and 20GB hard drive which lives under the bed. It would have been as well staying under the Read More …
Being a youth worker can be a lonely job. I know that sounds odd, especially given that the job is to spend time with young people and develop good working relationships with all kinds of people. But the fact is that much of a youth worker’s time is spent on their own, preparing, reading, thinking… Read More …
After discussion with Chris today we decided to create a Scottish Youth Ministry Network online at http://scottishyouthministry.ning.com. This network is for anyone involved in or interested in work with young people in Scotland. We hope it will be a place where we can support, encourage and resource each other. So join up and tell your 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 …
From BeyondRelevance.com
This evening I’m meeting up with Thomas aka Headphonaught for a chat about Tribes (book or audio), the new book by Seth Godin. Our chat is being recorded as part of the Something Beautiful podcasts so I’ll try to speak clearly and even make sense. All I’ll say for now is that I liked the Read More …
Not so much an upgrade as an add on… Two chances for you to explore some nice tools for getting your church / group / self online. We’ll explore WordPress, the power behind this site and iChurch, as well as some social media tools. Both the Glasgow and Edinburgh workshops are limited to 8 people Read More …