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Time To Change

3 February 2010 — After 25 years in youth ministry I have seen heaps of short-term impact of effective youth ministry but the same cannot be said of long-term impact.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Hope in the Winter in the City

22 December 2009 — I've spent several months in Jesus' Sermon the Mount, to better understand his directions for us as disciples. What does a city set on a hill look like in the winter?
Filed under: Urban Centers

"Don't Tell Me, but Please Tell Me"

20 November 2009 — There are many strange paradoxes about youth culture around the world and one of them is very confusing for adults and youth workers.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Engaging with Muslim People Groups

27 October 2009 — Every fifth person in the world is from an Islamic background. Islam is the second largest religion in the world—only Christianity has more adherents.
Filed under: Muslim Ministries

Youth Training in Zambia

30 September 2009 — I have just come back from two weeks in Zambia where I travelled around various parts of the country and met youth leaders and pastors.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

HIV & AIDS and Children

14 September 2009 — In a recent visit to Zambia I was reminded of the freedom, personal respect, and resilience that comes when children and young people understand deeply that they are special and valuable.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

The Issue of Sex

21 August 2009 — Sean tackles the issue of sex in youth culture—particularly how we deal with it within Christian youth ministry.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Feeling Safe?

29 July 2009 — Keeping us safe has become a global business, with products ranging from security alarms and rapid response teams to face masks and capsicum spray.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

CrucialMoments Regional Gathering

20 July 2009 — Insights into the SIM "CrucialMoments" Regional Gathering held in Lima, Peru.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

Youth Identity in Technology 2

8 July 2009 — I guess many of you have been following the news items about the elections in Iran. I think this is a very pivotal election but I am also interested in the impact young people and technology is having on the issues surrounding the election.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Youth Identity in Technology

19 June 2009 — In the wider world, technology is changing people's lives and the way they communicate, but these impacts are more extreme in the youth culture.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Global Children's Forum

10 June 2009 — Last month I had the privilege of participating in the Global Children’s Forum and representing SIM’s children’s ministries there.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

A Fulani Cattle-Herder ...

2 June 2009 — One morning at breakfast at the Global Leaders Gathering in Kenya recently, I sat across the table from Younoussa Djao (Director of the SIM West Africa Partnership Office).
Filed under: Discipleship and Mentoring

Economic Situation and Young People

20 May 2009 — I think we are all facing the realities of the struggling economic situation around the world.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Children's Ministry Trends

6 May 2009 — During the last month I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with many of SIM’s leaders and learn about what is going on in the different countries.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

How to Equip Youth Leaders

30 April 2009 — I have to admit that at the moment I am contemplating a number of big issue questions about how to develop effective youth ministry around the world.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Communicating to the Emerging Generation

16 April 2009 — I have been thinking about the way that young people receive and take on information. Often in Christian circles a lot of truth and understanding is done in a form of one person speaking or instructing a large group of people (one to many).
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Effective Coaching

7 April 2009 — Much has been written about mentoring and also about coaching with the two terms often being used interchangeably. The more I learn, I think I am seeing a distinction between these 2 words.
Filed under: Discipleship and Mentoring

AIDS: Rural Areas, Stigma, and VCT

30 March 2009 — Israel Ndlovu, of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, contributes the following out of the experiences of the ESSA Christian AIDS Program.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

It's in the DNA

19 March 2009 — There is not a people group anywhere in the world that does not have the capacity to become a missionary sending force.
Filed under: New Initiatives in Missions