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27 Jan

Life’s Grit and Glory

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What a beautiful concept in this guest post on Adam’s AskingY blog from an African friend of his.

Our main strategy for AIDS prevention isn’t teaching abstinence, as important as that is. Our main purpose is leading students to become [...]

21 Jan

In it for the long haul

Read a great article in the online version of the Bay City Times:

Helping young people grow spiritually has been Lew Tibbits’ mission for 27 years.
Tibbits, who stepped down as executive director of Bay Shore Camp in Sebewaing at the end of 2007, devoted himself to providing a Christian environment for children.
”Working with the youth, I [...]

09 Jan

So - where do I start?

I had a great conversation recently with a young man I have known for a number of years. We get together [face to face] every few months when he has got something to talk about. Often the topic is relationships [he is a university student] and this recent meeting was no exception - BUT - [...]

09 Dec

Armed robber continues

Earlier I introduced you to Adam [and then promptly digressed] - I am returning to him as I learnt a lot from our relationship. So much so that 10 years and 12,000 miles later we are still in contact.
In prison ministry I was often asked if I was being paid to do what I did [...]

01 Nov

Mentoring is Effective: A Serial Killer Apologises

I recently came across this short piece in New Life - which is Australia’s Christian Newspaper.

Way back in 2002 ….. two serial killers were
shooting in random fashion. One was the
older John Allen Muhammad who, with his
young 17 year old protégée Lee Boyd
Malvo, killed ten people and injured three
others in October of that year.
Malvo managed [...]

26 Oct

Accountability is Essential

The dictionary definition of accountable is: Adjective: liable to account, responsible, explicable.
My first experience of youth group leadership (in the late 1980’s) did not give me a good example.experience of accountability in action. The theory was good in that I was accountable to the senior pastor of the church. The weakness was in the practical [...]

14 Sep

Be a brick! Mentoring in action

I have a theory that if we could all see ourselves as a brick then many of our pastoral and growth needs could be met - let me explain.

First though a question - how many bricks does a single brick ‘touch’ in a standard brick [this definition excludes half bricks] wall? No, it isn’t a [...]

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