Category: life

Next year I'll be studying at Bible college. It's been decided that we will leave CCEC for a year (and return in 2009). This is a bummer, we don't want to leave – but know it will be valuable… so are looking forward to having a break, thinking more about Jesus, and checking out some other churches & youth ministries. Row will continue in her current job in Gosford and we will continue living in the same house. I'll be available to do a bit of speaking.

Party Time!! Let’s get fluoro. $10 (includes dinner). North Avoca Surf Club. 630-900pm. Friday December 7.

This Saturday on the Oval @ Erina High School.

I haven’t read the whole article – but if you are a high school scripture teacher – GO READ THIS ARTICLE!!! Classroom management is probably the most significant skill that high school scripture teachers need. You may be a gifted Bible teacher, but unless you can manage the class there won’t be an opportunity to teach the Bible.

James Fong is an experienced scripture teacher and shares some useful strategies.

What strategies do you use in the classroom? (Would love to hear from any teachers… not just scripture).

Jon recently went to 2 conferences in the USA: Youth Specialties’ NYWC and a Passion conference.

I’m interested in the bigger picture of youth ministry in Australia (and the world). Jon has some mixed feelings about the youth ministry scene in the USA. Lots of good stuff – but significant things missing.

Go check his thoughts out here.
(There aren’t any comment facilities over there… so feel free to leave any here)

Jon Thorpe (in an email) linked to a section on the youthworks site called 'good stuff '.

I'd never seen it before. But there's a whole stack of articles on there (4 on the above link and a bunch of archived ones too). It's in an obscure place and they really ought to put an RSS feed on it to make it more useful. I might link to some…