I'm privileged in this season to be facilitating regular discussion groups about outreach with both a group of senior pastors, and also a group of youth leaders. I'm taking to both groups about youth ministry, and here is why. A point that many senior church leaders might not like I think senior church leaders (meaning [...]
The following is extracted from a survey of 488 teenagers in church youth groups (a longer summary is here) ------ How confident to outreach are youth - really? A third (34%) of young Christians told us they share their faith regularly In terms of what this 34% did to share their faith with non-Christian peers, 71% [...]
Western media and culture has created a 'narrative' against the Christian faith. They like to pull our faith down. As a result they tell bad stories about the church - but not the good. What this overlooks is the fact that: ...there are tens of thousands of good stories for every bad ...the bad stories [...]
(From Godtalk October 2021 update) Morag Paton has specialised in online outreach for the past half dozen years. 'YesHeIs' was one of her projects. - The info on the left reflects data taken from 5,078 online conversations she and team had in 2018 to 2020. - What stands out is how low the 'intellectual' objections [...]
So, it's exam time, and people are stressed. Check out the ideas in the image! Bake muffins with a Bible verse - to show care and lift people up Put a positive Bible verse on a notice board - but with permission Set up a 'chocolate fountain' in a room, and let people come and [...]
(Shared with permission from a 'Evangelism Network' update in Christchurch, as written by Nic) Jesus Club at Cashmere High School Jesus Club was a group that was started in 2019 by my friends and I at Cashmere High School. We started it as a place where people can come to and hear a short message [...]
I remember some youth wanting to reach out to their friends. But how do you ever get yourself in a space where you can talk? The answer they found was by playing sports together for fun. Afterwards you're naturally sitting around, chatting while having a drink. Other things you get up to socially can be [...]
> Time to educate our own again < A call to a change in thinking regarding the education of our young This article, formatted into 4 short 'chapters', suggests a change in thinking I suggest is needed in the NZ Church regarding how we view and engage with the discipleship of our young. It's [...]
Intro: I remember when I led my first network of youth leaders. I was full of enthusiasm, and we achieved some really good things together. We did a lot of things right by following the pattern of those who had led the youth groups before us. That pattern has now been lost to most places [...]
#hopestory challenge This idea is INTERNATIONAL - and has resulted in MANY MILLIONS of videos viewed. > See details, and a video explains it - and examples of stories... ... at hopestorychallenge.com The reach on social media even just in NZ can be HUGE if 50 or more do this (and then 100, and then...)! [...]
