National Christian Youth Convention 2011
This week Duncan MacLeod and Craig Mitchell are leading professional development sessions for youth workers and others at the Uniting Church in Australia’s biennial NCYC on the Gold Coast. It’s a tough...
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Spirituality of Young People
Session One at NCYC today was about the spirituality of young people, and in particular how we foster spiritual growth in our your ministry. We were in a long, narrow, hot room with cages down either...
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Session Two at NCYC focused on generational capacity in congregations, with self awareness as a key focus. The workshop is being run during the Bible Study stream, attended mostly by adult volunteers...
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Community Facing Discipleship
The third professional development Bible Study at NCYC this week focused on a community-faced approach to discipleship. The workshop began with a conversation starter in small groups focused on the...
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Media and Young People
Session Four at NCYC looked at media, communication and technology in the lives of young people. We had some equipment problems (ha!), so this summary covers what we did and some of what we didnt do!...
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Children’s ministry blog
Carolyne Chandler is blogging about children & family ministry at Croydon Uniting Church in Melbourne, where she works part-time (she’s a teacher for the other part). I’ve met Carolyne through the...
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Pilgrimage to Living Water
One of the projects support by NextGens is the Pilgrimage to Living Water resource which was developed by Joan-Wright Howie and others from Victoria in collaboration with UCA President Alistair...
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First Third Website
Luther Seminary in St Paul, Minnesota now sponsors a First Third website, with articles, interviews, resources and events related to ministry with people in the forst third of life. The site is the...
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Andrew Root to visit in August 2012
Dr Andrew Root from Luther Seminary in St Paul, Minnesota, will be in Australia again in August 2012. Andrew will be in Perth 25-26 August, and then in Sydney 28-31 August at the UCA National...
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Conferences
A number of conferences relating to ministry with children, youth, young adults and families have been held or are coming up. Ministry Unfiltered The Uniting Church’s biennial in-service training...
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