Scripture Union are again running Young Christians Day Conference, it’s coming very soon!! YCDC 2010 is on Saturday 4th September, 2pm-830pm at St Paul’s Chatswood (map). This year we’ll be looking at 1 Peter 4. If you’re in high school (or just out of high school) get your butt there! It should be a sweet sweet time. [...]
Getting young people to pray is a good thing, yeah? Dave Buster and Ed Sowden are two young punks who are keen to get other young punks praying. Sounds good. They’ve just begun a ministry called THE TIMOTHY STRATEGY. Worth checking out. Go read more about it on fervr: tts.fervr.net. Join the group, pray, and [...]
Less than two weeks until the two big RICE Youth Events for 2010! Youth Leaders and Young Punks – get your butts along!! RICE Fever 14 August includes: Garage Hymnal; Chasing Light; Jake Nauta; Road to Canaan; Krosswerdz; and Sam Chan speaking. RICE Rally 21 August includes: New Empire; and Steve Chong speaking. Promo vid: [...]
Youthworks have just launched a monthly newsletter, Growing Faith. This is essential reading for all Christian parents and I think it’s useful for those involved in ministry, youth ministry and children’s ministry. The first issue looks great, including the blue jeans and white t-shirt uniform worn in the header pic below! Go sign up for [...]
This Friday I’m speaking at UNASHAMED. It’s a Youth Event for the Combined Anglican Churches of North West Sydney. Good idea! Friday 30th July 730pm at Rouse Hill Anglican Church. One of the best Christian bands in Sydney, GARAGE HYMNAL, will be playing some tunes. Looks like it’s going to be a sweeeeeeeeeet event. Bring [...]
Cherrybrook Anglican and Dural Anglican are doing great work in their respective youth ministries. Last weekend I was able to join them both on their annual combined youth camp. This is a brilliant idea!! Rather than having 2 camps of 25 young punks each, they join forces to have a camp for 50 young punks. [...]
I’m not sure what MMM stands for, maybe it had something to do with Mission, Mountains and maybe Magpies? Not sure. Doesn’t matter. Camp MMM is run by Church Missionary Society (CMS). While it got down to zero degrees celsius in Katoomba during camp, it really was a smoking hot camp! Lots of the camps I [...]
Cornerstone Youth probably have the most media rich youth group website in Sydney! It’s hot. I joined them for their super-encouraging Praise Night. They filmed the whole night, and have now made available all the content on their website! The talk I gave was from Philippians 3:1-10 on The Joy of Knowing Christ. I was [...]
I’ve recently started referring to high school aged young people as “young punks”. Some friends have even begun to embrace the terminology while blogging, tweeting or speaking. You might think it sounds stupid, but not as stupid as some terms we use. Here is my ranking of terms for defining this age group: Young Punks [...]
On Friday night I MC’d the Re-generation youth event with Will Graham in Tamworth. Will preached a great sermon urging people to stop going the wrong way and start following Jesus. There were about 600-700 young punks there with 130 praying to become Christian!! So exciting. I had a really good time hanging out with Will [...]
Youthworks, Crusaders and Scripture Union all run great study camps for year 12 students preparing for the HSC. They all include solid, disciplined blocks of study throughout the day, with a bit of time to reflect upon God and life after school. SU haven’t been running them for as long. Theirs are unique in that [...]
The young visionaries from RICE have just launched the Rice Revolution 2010 website. These young punks are seeking a Jesus revival in schools throughout Sydney. Sweet!
Fervr is a killer website for young punks. So if you’re a young punk or a leader of young punks – get your butt over there! Here are 3 recent attention-grabbing articles: Is your Facebook a fake book? Mick Hyam on how to be a real and genuine Christian online 27 years a virgin – [...]
Will Graham, evangelist and grandson of Billy Graham, is currently in Australia preaching the good news of Jesus. There are a whole bunch of events being run in North West NSW (Gunnedah, Moree & Tamworth) run by REALITY. I will be the MC of a youth event run in Tamworth Town Hall on Friday 28th [...]
Jessica Watson is one crazy teenager: she… did something. She is now the youngest to sail solo and unassisted around the world. On Saturday she arrived back in Sydney Harbour receiving a hero’s welcome from the Prime Minister, the NSW Premier, Channel Ten and tens of thousands keen on celebrating the milestone. I think some [...]
I recently joined the young punks from MBM Youth in Rooty Hill for The Launch camp. What a great camp! I really enjoyed hanging out with the gangsters from this fantastic youth group. Matt Sparks and his team of leaders are doing a brilliant job as they seek to ‘transform youth through Jesus to the [...]
Fervr.net and Youthworks have just launched www.year12survival.com – I’ve only had a brief look around, but it looks like there’s some really useful content. If you’re in year 12 or work with year 12ers, go check it out! Let me know what you think.
God has continually shown his kindness through the ministry of KYCK. For over 15 years, KCC has run a youth conference keen to challenge teenagers to take the Bible and following Jesus seriously. I’ve posted and tweeted quite a few times over the past 3 weekends about KYCK 2010. This year the convention was attended [...]
I dig CMS (Church Missionary Society). That’s because I dig the preaching of Jesus to all nations. Check them out – they have a pimpin sweet website. Pray. Care. Give. Go. Dan Anderson and I will be preaching on the upcoming CMS Camp MMM. It’s a camp for High School Students on 5-9 July 2010 [...]
George Statheos has really been smashing it with the final KYCK talk on Ecclesiastes 12. This verse is a summary of the whole chapter. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them” (Ecc 12:1) Here [...]