If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just when I thought there was nothing left to be surveyed - I cam across this:
Survey: Why Young People Don’t Choose Fish
NORWAY - Seafood is healthy so why don’t young adults living alone buy and eat fish? What needs [...]
I have just read a post entitled Church Reform - Youth Ministry and it kind of made me mad. I got mad on 2 main counts but I am not sure whether I should be a polite Christian, smile sweetly and move on OR to take the post [and by implication] the writer to task. [...]
Today was my first encounter with Hamo [not that I could be vaguely considered his friend and he has probably never heard of me!] - but he wrote a provocative post called the failure of youth ministry - provocative title wouldn’t you say?
Upon investigation he is challenging the hype of youth ministry and [...]
Wherever you turn there is someone doing research - maybe I will try and do some, it seems it’s the way to go.
They do it all over the world too it appears. In Germany they have done a survey of young people and their media habits. I like this statement:
The young don’t read newspapers but, [...]
Dan gives a great summary of a seminar on ‘Using Sport to Reach Young People’
Overall the seminar looks great, although I do wonder about one of the quotes that Dan recorded:
‘Sport offers the body of Christ the greatest opportunity to reach the largest amount of people in the shortest space of time’.
For me that [...]
Trevin writes about his ministry experiences in Romania
There was a big difference between life in the city and life in the village in Romania. Being in the city quickly became my comfort zone. We had running water (even if it was usually cold), cleaner conditions, and an atmosphere that approached my way of life back [...]
The Bishop of Chelmsford had a thing or two to tell a Grand Committee of the House of Lords [an English Parliament thing - as big as it's title perhaps?] - including this quote:
Bishop Gladwin told the committee: “My heart sank a little when we spoke of building youth centres. Those of us in the [...]
Kristen posted a comment on The Line where she said
BUT being 24 means that I’m working in part-time youth ministry, have a full time job (because I don’t get paid for ministry), still going to college and am dating, so I don’t have time to listen to a 30min+ podcast.
Sometimes churches annoy me.
