Youth Ministry
Aberdeen Youth/ Childrens/ Family ministry network
Tomorrow is an exciting day. It marks the first meeting of the new Aberdeen Youth/ Childrens/ Family ministry network (our first job is to come up with a catchier name!). It’s being set up by myself and Tony Chadwick, who is the youth pastor at IBC (International Baptist Church). We’ve both discerned a need for … Continue reading
NYA2009 so far
NYA has been pretty awesome so far. It’s slightly bizarre thatm after being hosted by the Apex hotel in Dundee for 6 years, we’re in a sprawling University campus in Stirling. Usually everyone would be on top of one another, everything would happen within 2 minutes walk of each other. Instead, there is a good … Continue reading
Once more into the breach…
Today is the day! The Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly starts today! As I’ve previously blogged, this is an awesome event! Close to 300 young Christians from around Scotland will be gathering in Stirling as of this afternoon to spend a weekend together exploring what it means to be Christian in Scotland in the … Continue reading
Blue Horizon Outreach Bus
Today marks me working with Blue Horizon for 2 weeks now. I feel like I’m settling in well, getting on well with the staff and really enjoying the aspects of my job I’ve discovered so far! But this post isn’t about me and how I’m fitting in, it’s about a bus. One of the many … Continue reading
One of the Joys of Youth Ministry…
I’m sitting on a hard concrete floor at the AECC (Aberdeen conference centre). I’m here with the youth group from Portlethen to take part in the Aberdeen Cyrenians sponsored sleepout. Its a good event that regularly raises thousands for work with the homeless in Aberdeen, and keeps multiple youth ministers/workers an teachers up all night … Continue reading
Greatest weakness in the Church?
While reading through the blogs I follow on my RSS feed, I came across this interesting snippet: Full credit for this goes to Terrace Crawford His blog post is short and sweet, but definetly worth a read and think….the quote specifically talks about the North American Church, but is it relevant for the UK Church? … Continue reading
sometimes God seems…..
Just a short thought at the end of a good, long, hard, challenging day. I’m not sure where it came from, but I started thinking about the film ‘I, robot’ with Will Smith. He’s a detective who has to piece together an investigation into a mans death at the hands of a robot by following … Continue reading
J.John: Church as community:
I was at a day conference hosted by souled out yesterday. It was a conference on Evangelism and the Church, led by J.John. It was a really good day with some fantastic teaching and thought provoking questions being put out there by J.John. His teaching was a based on a pamphlet the charity he wroks … Continue reading
Can community be online?
Over the last few months I’ve been wrestling with the question: ‘can community exist online?’ Specifically in a Christian context. With the rise in the last few years in social networking technology more and more people are referring to their online community. I do it, I’m sure many of you have at somepoint as well. … Continue reading
Scottish Youth Ministry Network: SYMN
So, I’m not long back from my trip to Israel and Palestine, let me tell you, that trip was awesome!! But i’m still processing most of what happened on that trip, once I’m a little further along that process I’ll start blogging about it! Just now, I want to blog about something new and exciting … Continue reading