Youth Ministry and an ‘Old People’s Home for Teenagers’
What could your church do to foster intergenerational relationships and help young people thrive and flourish in faith?
Intergenerational Church from the Child’s Perspective
What does intergenerational ministry look like from the child’s perspective?
Sword of the Spirit Drills for Children, Youth and Leaders
A drill you could use to teach children, youth, leaders and parents to handle the Bible well.
Preparing and Delivering an SRE Lesson (Module 3 Refresher)
A refresher of the Module 3 training, Preparing and Delivering a Lesson (Primary).
Equipping Youth with Biblical Ethics – Al James talks to Mike Snowdon
Al James talks to Mike Snowdon about his new book A New Freedom: How God’s Word Equips You for Life.
Rosters and Missing Church
How many weeks a year can I ask parents and other adults of my church to join the children’s ministry roster?
Teaching High School Special Needs SRE
Hear Linda’s encouraging story of teaching SRE to a high school special needs class.
Supporting your School SRE Coordinator
Have you ever seriously considered what is involved in being a School SRE Coordinator? Consider what it looks like from their perspective as SRE settles back into part of the normal school week.
Three principles and three skills for group management
It takes skills and confidence to manage a group of children well. These often come with experience supplemented with training and support. Here are some tips on how to grow in your management skills in children’s ministry.
Tailoring your SRE lessons to meet student needs
How to teach your SRE lesson in a way that allows each student to learn effectively.
Someone to Him
We crave for connection, meaning and significance for our lives and nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the teenage years
Tell Me More
As youth leaders, we long to share our lives with the young people we disciple, but for all kinds of reasons, so often we’re met with a brick wall of one-word answers.
Empty Car Seats and Inspiring Outreach
Who can you bring to church in your spare car seat?
Peer Evangelism Part 3: The Surprising Gospel Results of a Quiet Life
How to encourage our teenagers to be evangelists through a peaceful and quiet life.
Little steps for big gains: building SRE in your local high school
What are the steps to building SRE in our schools? Here are a few that you might consider taking.
Peer Evangelism Part 2: Equipping the Evangelists
Strategies that our young people can use to evangelise those in their various spheres of influence.
Responding as Disciples to a Time of Unrest
The young people in your youth or children’s ministry might be: scared, sad, uncertain, confused, angry or any number of other responses.
And all of this raises the same question I had for my family: as a community of believers, how do we deal with this collective adversity?
Peer Evangelism Part 1: Convincing Teens of the Gospel Need
Evangelism is at the heart of the Christian faith. Sharing the Gospel, the ‘good news’, of the Kingdom of God is the first thing that Jesus did in his public ministry. Learn how to equip your youth to engage in evangelistic conversations.
Back to basics in SRE
As a new year begins and the SRE Teacher’s Manuals are pulled out and dusted off, it’s a great time to remember the basics of an effective SRE lesson and set a goal for continued improvement.