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Mobile phone Greek

Reuben Salagaras has just made available some sweet sweet greek tools. There’s a whole bunch of gear that ties in with the Moore Greek and Hebrew courses on reubenland.com, my two favs:

  1. Greek Flash Cards for mobile phones – this is brilliant. Used it on the train this morning – good for use when you don’t have a seat!
  2. Greek Flash Cards Widget V0.2 (beta) – this is a yahoo widget – some very cool stuff on your desktop.

Big shout out to Reuben and all the tech men who make this type of stuff available…

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National Youth Week 2008

National Youth Week is April 5-13, 2008. Do you know of any Christian youth ministries that run events in conjunction with Youth Week? It wouldn’t be that difficult. Christian youth ministry runs each week – so it wouldn’t require an enormous amount of work. I think it would simply require a youth ministry to be more intentional in linking their weekly events into the local youth week program.

Youth Week 2008

I don’t think that it’s wise for Protestant Youth Ministries to run events as part of World (Catholic) Youth Day, but can see no reason why it would be a problem to link into something that the general community is running. Know of any groups currently doing it? How could it be done effectively?

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Youth Ministry 3.0

Mark Oestreicher, President of Youth Specialities, is currently writing a new book called Youth Ministry 3.0. Marko has been blogging snapshots from his book and been requesting comments that will be considered for inclusion in the book. Marko argues that much of youth ministry is failing and that “this is why we need an epochal shift in our assumptions, approaches, models and methods.” It seems like he raises some good questions, but I haven’t finished reading all the posts yet so can’t really comment on his conclusions.

youth ministry 3.0

It looks like there are some good bits on youth culture and the history of youth ministry. Have a read and let me (and him) know what you think. Is youth ministry failing? Or is it just a particular type of American youth ministry is failing? How do you measure success and failure in youth ministry?

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Friday Foto #11

Friday Foto is running two days late! This pic is of some lights, a microphone, guitar and Stephanie Papapavlou. She supported the “Rock Band” during Kingsford Mission on Friday night. Good times.

Stephanie Papapavlou

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