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Adam Jolliffe (Children's Ministry Advisor, Youthworks) joins Tim Beilharz to explore the "Three C's" of Children's and Youth Ministry Leadership: Care, Communication, and Coaching.
Adam shares about his own ministry experience and how these three priorities will help leadership teams of any size do effective ministry.
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Bec Baines (Accessibility Advisor, Youthworks) and Luke Graham (Kids and Youth Minister, St Paul's Canterbury) join Tim Beilharz to talk about neurodiversity in our children's and youth ministry.
Neurodiversity is increasingly becoming a topic that affects our young people and that churches are wanting to engage with well. From big emotions, social anxiety, and spiritually formative spaces, Bec and Luke share how churches can be welcoming and accessible places for these children and teenagers.
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Show Notes:
Bec Baines, Accessibility Advisor
Accessible Kids and Youth Min Facebook Group
Ed Drew, Faith In Parents #116 | Parenting and Autism with Mark Arnold
House Conference 2023 is upon us. In celebration we are going back in time and listening in on Rev. Dr. Tim Escott and his 2022 House Conference Paper on the book of Proverbs.
The Path to Wisdom: Searching and Finding Order in Proverbs 2 explores how the wisdom literature can help us disciple young people in a world with so many competing voices on what constitutes the good life.
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House Conference 2023 is almost upon us. In celebration we are going back in time and listening in on Rev. Dr. Andrew Spalding and his 2022 House Conference Paper on the book of Ecclesiastes.
Nothing New Under the Sun: Ecclesiastes as a Critique of the Postmodern Quest explores the meaning of the book of Ecclesiastes as false wisdom and how understanding this book can help us disciple our young people who are also caught up in a culture full of false wisdom.
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In this pre-House Conference warm up episode, Tim Beilharz and Al James (Youthworks) are joined by Naomi de Vries (Bridge Church) to discuss the two academic papers being presented at House Conference 2023.
Rev Dr Keith Condie has written about the importance of Christians expressing emotions, but rightly ordering them and directing them towards love of God and love of others.
Dr Kamina Wüst has written on Song of Songs and how the passion and fidelity of love celebrated in the book is a model of the kind of emotions that Christians ought to be cultivating.
Show Notes:
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House Conference Information and Rego
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House Conference Papers (incl. past papers)
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Bec Baines interview on Accessibility and Inclusion
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
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Many churches will include children in the main service for a least some, if not all, of the time together. But children move, call out, make noise, and act like... well, children.
This week Tim answers a question from a keen but distracted adult, "How would you encourage people to persevere and love having kids in the main meeting?"
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Isaac Shumack (Youth Minister, Toongabbie Anglican Church) has made the move to intentionally partner more with parents in his Youth Ministry. He joins Tim Beilharz to discuss the why, the how, and what has been the fruit of intentionally doing Youth Ministry with the family in mind.
Tim also chats to Al James about the benefits of the children's and youth ministry coaching offered by Youthworks. If you would like to enquire about the advising, coaching and training offered by Youthworks, please email Tim effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
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Tim Beilharz sends through the third batch of "Postcards from Nashville," a collection of short conversations with pastors, researchers and authors who presented at Intergenerate Conference 2023 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In this episode we hear from:
- Stacey Davis (Dallas Theological Seminary) - Ancient Israelite intergenerational faith practices
- Amy Yu (Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church) - Intergenerational Ministry at a tri-lingual church
- Steve Case (Involve Youth; Andrews University) - Theology of IG ministry through a nuanced reading of Scripture
Intergenerate Conference brought together leaders from a wide variety of church denominations and traditions who are all thinking about intergenerational ministry in their respective contexts. As you listen to these voices, our hope is that your imagination will be sparked, stimulating your own ideas on how the theology, theory and practice of intergenerational ministry may be implemented in your local church.
We'd love to hear how The Effective Ministry Podcast is encouraging you in your local church.
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Al James chats with Tim Beilharz about Al’s recent article on discipling youth through identity struggles, the concept of “identity moratorium”, and how churches can provide a space where teens can doubt, struggle, and question the things that are most important to them.
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Discipling youth through identity struggles by Al James
https://youthworks.net/articles/discipling-youth-through-identity-struggles
Tim Beilharz sends through the second batch of "Postcards from Nashville," a collection of short conversations with pastors, researchers and authors who presented at Intergenerate Conference 2023 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In this episode we hear from:
- Christina Embree (ReFocus Ministry) - Bridges and Barriers to intergenerational ministry
- Tony Souder (Pray For Me Campaign) - Establishing an intergeneration praying community around students and young people
- Gene Roehlkepartain (Search Institute) - Developmental relationships and why middle childhood is especially in need of intergenerational support
Intergenerate Conference brought together leaders from a wide variety of church denominations and traditions who are all thinking about intergenerational ministry in their respective contexts. As you listen to these voices, our hope is that your imagination will be sparked, stimulating your own ideas on how the theology, theory and practice of intergenerational ministry may be implemented in your local church.
We'd love to hear how The Effective Ministry Podcast is encouraging you in your local church.
Please send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
Ed Drew is the Ministry Director of Faith in Kids, a UK ministry whose heart is to see confident parents and thriving churches working together to raise children who trust in Jesus eternally.
Ed was recently out in Sydney and spent time with Youthworks running and Children's Ministry Masterclass and Think Tank event. This week's episode is some of the audio from Ed's Think Tank which looked at the research showing that churches and parents must partner together to raise children to know and love Jesus.
Show notes:
- Glynn Harrison lecture referred to in the episode on YouTube; 50.30-1.01.38
- House Conference rego at Youthworks.net/House
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Tim Beilharz sends through the first few "Postcards from Nashville," a collection of short conversations with pastors, researchers and authors who presented at Intergenerate Conference 2023 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In this episode we hear from:
- Mimi Larson (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) - Children as full participants in the worshipping community
- Jason Brian Santos (Community Presbyterian Church, Lake City Colorado) - Reconciling two contrasting ways of reading intergenerationality in the Biblical narrative
- Darren Philip (Church of Scotland) - How Bonhoeffer can help us think about the value of intergenerational ministry for both adults and children
Intergenerate Conference brought together leaders from a wide variety of church denominations and traditions who are all thinking about intergenerational ministry in their respective contexts. As you listen to these voices, our hope is that your imagination will be sparked, stimulating your own ideas on how the theology, theory and practice of intergenerational ministry may be implemented in your local church.
We'd love to hear how The Effective Ministry Podcast is encouraging you in your local church.
Please send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
Dr. Ruth Powell, director of the National Church Life Survey (NCLS) joins Tim Beilharz to discuss the NCLS's Child Survey which hears from 8 to 14 year olds in the churches. Ruth shares data from the 2021-2022 Child Survey which answers such questions as:
- What do children think about church and about the Christian faith?
- Who do children look to as positive role models in their family and in the church?
- How would children like to participate in ministry in the church?
The NCLS is one of the largest, most comprehensive databases on church life of its kind in the world. You can find out about the NCLS and access a number of their publicly available research papers at ncls.org.au
Ruth talks to Jonathan Cole on The Political Animals podcast about the larger adult NCLS survey results here.
From Youthworks:
- Support SRE (Scripture) in public schools through Youthworks EOFY Appeal
- Register for House Conference.
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Following on from last episode, Dr. Sarah Holmes takes some Q&A about her research on the post-Covid church in the UK.
- What was the difference between spiritual health in the home vs. in church programs?
- How competent did parents feel about discipling their children?
- What does relational discipleship--over and above church programs--actually look like?
- How should the pandemic reshape our vision for youth and children's ministry long term?
- How did the pandemic affect both the child's and the parent's mental health and how can the church respond?
From Dr Sarah Holmes:
- Co-authored report on families returning to church post-Covid: Ann Casson, Sarah Holmes & Richard Powney (Nov, 2022) “What Is The Place of Families in Church Post-Covid?”
- Website: Nurturing Young Faith
From Youthworks:
Support SRE (Scripture) in public schools through Youthworks EOFY Appeal Register for House Conference.
We'd love to hear from you. Send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
Dr. Sarah Holmes joins the Youthworks Team to discuss her research on the post-Covid church in the UK. Sarah discusses what happened to children's ministry in the UK and the impact that had on child faith formation. However, it’s not all bad news! Sarah encourages us to look for the gifts that come from the pandemic and the ability to reimagine, recreate and rebuild a ministry that is more effective, more intergenerational, and more faith formative for children and families.
From Dr Sarah Holmes:
- Co-authored report on families returning to church post-Covid: Ann Casson, Sarah Holmes & Richard Powney (Nov, 2022) “What Is The Place of Families in Church Post-Covid?”
- Website: Nurturing Young Faith
From Youthworks:
Support SRE (Scripture) in public schools through Youthworks EOFY Appeal Register for House Conference.
We'd love to hear from you. Send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
Rev. Suz Gorham (NSW Police Chaplin) and Josie Seto (Assistant Youth Minister, MBM Rooty Hill) are back with Al James to discuss the mental health of young people in our post-Covid world. Originally recorded after the first major lockdown in Sydney in 2020, this "lost episode" from the Under the Crown podcast series still has key insights into understanding the mental state of the young people in our churches and what youth and children's ministers can be doing to pastor them well.
Youthworks Links:
- Support SRE (Scripture) in public schools through Youthworks EOFY Appeal
- Register for House Conference. Early Bird closes 31st May.
We'd love to hear from you. Send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
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Rev. Suz Gorham (NSW Police Chaplin) and Josie Seto (Assistant Youth Minister, MBM Rooty Hill) join Al James to discuss the mental health of young people in our post-Covid world. Originally recorded after the first major lockdown in Sydney in 2020, this "lost episode" from the Under the Crown podcast series still has key insights into understanding the mental state of the young people in our churches and what youth and children's ministers can be doing to pastor them well.
Youthworks Links:
- Support SRE (Scripture) in public schools through Youthworks EOFY Appeal
- Register for House Conference. Early Bird closes 31st May.
We'd love to hear from you. Send your thoughts, comments, suggestions, and critiques to effectiveministrypodcast@youthworks.net.
Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church.
Bonus Episode with more from Trinette Stanley, Family & Life Skills Educator (Mental Health) at Anglicare. Tim and Trinette chat about some theological considerations when it comes to mental ill-health and how the gospel is uniquely equipped to speak into the lives of those who are in the midst of experiencing psychological distress.
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Trinette’s Recommended Reading List:
- ‘Finding Jesus in the Storm’ by John Swinton,
- ‘Tackling Mental Illness Together’ by Alan Thomas
- ‘Troubled Minds’ by Amy Simpson
Trinette Stanley, Family & Life Skills Educator (Mental Health) at Anglicare, joins us to discuss mental health in children and teenagers and how children and youth ministry leaders can best support young people and their families.
You can reach out to Trinette by email and find out more about the work of Anglicare.
Read 'Tell Me More' by Al Jamesat Youthworks.net.
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Show links and phone numbers:
- Kids Helpline, 1800 55 1800, kidshelpline.com.au
- Lifeline, 13 11 14, lifeline.org.au
- Suicide call-back service, 1300 659 467, suicidecallbackservice.org.au
- Headspace, headspace.org.au
- Wesley Mission Service Finder, wesleymission.org.au/find-a-service
- Anglicare Counselling Services, anglicare.org.au/what-we-offer/counselling
- Further reading at Youthworks.net:
Trinette’s Recommended Reading List:
- ‘Finding Jesus in the Storm’ by John Swinton,
- ‘Tackling Mental Illness Together’ by Alan Thomas
- ‘Troubled Minds’ by Amy Simpson
Alice Warren joins the podcast to talk about her new book A Godparent’s Handbook: Nurturing your godchild’s Faith for Life. Alice talks about the theology of baptism and the role of godparents in the Anglican Tradition and gives some helpful suggestions for how godparents can engage in the faith development of their godchildren through infancy, childhood and through adolescent years.
A Godparent’s Handbook is available at YouthworksMedia.com and is an excellent resource for churches, family ministries and anyone who wants to think strategically about the role of godparents in the child’s life of faith.
Upcoming Youthworks Events
Intergenerational Roundtable: https://youthworks.net/intergenerational-roundtable
House Conference: https://youthworks.net/house
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Newly appointed Accessibility Ministry Advisor, Bec Baines, joins Tim Beilharz to discuss her new role. Bec is passionate about the inclusion of all children and youth in churches and in ministries, espeically those with additional physical and intellectual needs. Bec shares stories of where accessibility has worked well, blind spots that we may have in making inclusive and welcoming spaces, and what her hopes and dreams are for this new role at Youthworks.
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Show Notes and Recommended Reading:
- Lower Mountains Anglican 'How To Come To Church' Page: https://www.lmap.org.au/how-to-come-to-church/
- Take Heart: Families Living with Disability by Kate Hurley
- Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness by Benjamin T. Connor
Recent developments in the field of neuroscience and neuropsychology have given us a depth of understanding of children’s attention spans, focus levels, the interaction of emotions and learning, and the need for a warm environment. Annemarie Rivers joins Tim Beilharz to have a conversation about these topics and the implications for children’s ministry. How do these insights help us plan teaching times and create ministry environments that facilitate effective discipleship?
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Further reading:
- Why Don’t Students Like School – Daniel T. Willingham
- The Learning Cycle – Muriel I. Elmer and Duane H. Elmer
- The Brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge 2007
- Show them Jesus – Jack Klumpenhower
- Teaching with the Brain in Mind – Eric Jensen
Youthworks vision is to see effective youth and children's ministry in every church. In this first episode of 2023, Tim Beilharz sits down with Youthworks CEO Rev. Craig Roberts to discuss his leadership of the organisation. The discussion includes,
- Craig's growing understanding of Youthworks: from the "junk room of the Diocese" to a "diverse portfolio of complementary ministries,"
- How to manage a ministry organisation during a Covid lockdown with zero revenue,
- Craig's vision for the next five years of Youthworks, and
- Craig's two most treasured beliefs: the resurrection of the dead, and the Parramatta Eels.
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In this last episode of Season 1, we wrap up our mini-series on Church History by chatting to two practitioners in Children's and Youth Ministry. Tim Beilharz sits down with Children's Minister Kaitlyn Dixon and Youth Minister James Ulrich to hear why they think church history is important to teach young people and how they have done it in their ministry at St Mark's Anglican Church, West Wollongong.
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Following on from last episode, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo sits down with Tim Beilharz to discuss why church history is relevant for those in children's and youth ministry. Questions discussed include:
- Why is history important in an age of expressive individualism?
- What are some of the major events in church history that shape our present experience?
- Should we tear down the statues of problematic people?
- How do we deal with the tricky (or downright awful) bits of church history?
- How do we incorporate church history into our ministry?
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From one of Youthworks College's Theology Think Tanks from 2022, Dr Ruth Lukabyo shares her research on the early Sunday School movement in Australia. While looking back at the why and how of these early Children's Ministries in the European settlement of Sydney, Ruth asked us to consider the why and how of our ministries today. Are Sunday Schools and Kids' Churches places of mission, discipleship, or both? Do they complement the active discipleship of parents, or are they simply somewhere to keep the kids quiet while adults do "real church"?
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In this episode, Tim Beilharz talks with Wandering Bookseller Karl Grice about Christian Fiction. Links to all the books we talk about are below.
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Find Karl Grice at:
- The Wandering Bookseller
- The Little Lost Bookshop
S. D. Smith
- Green Ember (Book 1)
- Complete Series
Andrew Peterson
- Wingfeather Saga Series
Cecily Patterson
- Invisible Series
Kristen Young - Collective Underground Series
- Apprentice
- Elite
- Flight
Claire Zorn
- Sky So Heavy
- One Would Think The Deep
- The Protected
- When We Are Invisible
In this episodes, Youthworks College Principal Mike Dicker chats with Al James (Youthworks MST), Emma Collett (Church Hill Anglican) and Lauren Dewhurst (Christ Church, St Ives) to discuss this year's upcoming House Conference papers on the Old Testament Wisdom Literature.
House Conference is a chance for youth and children's ministry worker to gather together, think deeply about biblical and theological topics and work at applying them together in the context of a community of peers. In 2022 Rev. Dr. Andrew Spalding is presenting "'Nothing New under the Sun’: Ecclesiastes as a Critique of the Postmodern Quest" and Rev. Dr. Tim Escott is presenting "The Path to Wisdom: Searching and Finding Order in Proverbs 2".
Mike, Al, Emma and Lauren had the chance to read through the papers before hand and talk through the about the key themes and applicatoion to ministry life.
You can purchase the papers from this years conference, as well as previous year's conferences at https://youthworks.net/house.
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In this episodes, Tim and Al sit down with youth minister and author Mike Snowdon to talk about his book A New Freedom: How God's Word Equips You For Life. Mike shares how the book is designed to help teenagers think through their world from a biblical perspective, why Christian ethical thinking is like kitesurfing, and then gives one worked example from the book on how to think Christianly about being a student in high school.
To purchase copies of Mike's book for you and the teenagers in your church, head to YouthworksMedia.net.
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In this episodes, Tim Beilharz goes from host to guest as we share a recent episode from Moore Theological College's Centre for Christian Living podcast.
Tim sat down with Dan Wu to chat about children's, family and intergenerational ministry and how the local church can equip it's members to think carefully and effectively about ministry to our youngest brothers and sisters in the church.
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In our fourth and final episode of our Intergenerational Ministry mini-series Tim Beilharz sits down with Tim Adams, Families Minister at Macquarie Anglican Church to discuss the purpose and practicalities of intergenerational ministry.
Tim Adams describes the importance of different generations sharing meaningfully together, why this is good for each generation and good for the church, and what this looks like in practice at Macquarie Anglican.
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In our third episode of our Intergenerational MInistry mini-series Tim Beilharz and Kate Haggar have a follow up Q&A conversation with Stuart Crawshaw (Senior Pastor, Soul Revival Church) about his Shock Absorber presentation at last episode's Intergenerational Roundtable.
Questions include:
- What's the difference between intergenerational ministry in a small or large church?
- What is the role of invested, non-parent, adults in an intergenerational church?
- How do meals help promote intergenerational engagement?
- Does intergenerational ministry work across cultures and in non-suburban areas?
- How do I start moving towards intergenerational ministry in a homogeneous church?
You can hear more from Stuart Crawshaw and the shock absorber approach on The Shock Absorber podcast in audio or video on YouTube.
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In our second episode of our Intergenerational MInistry mini-series we share the presentations from Youthworks bi-annual Intergenerational Roundtable conference from September 2021.
Chris Edwards (Anglican Bishop, North Sydney) presents the theological foundations for our local churches being families where all are welcome, encouraged and engaged in building one another up.
Stuart Crawshaw (Senior Pastor, Soul Revival Church) then tells the story of Soul Revival Church, its beginnings as an intergenerational ministry expression in a homogeneous unit church, through to its launch in 2012 as a new local church, founded on unique intergenerational principles and practice.
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What is intergenerational ministry? Is it the latest buzz word for youth and children's ministry? Is it simply noticing that there are babies, teenagers, the middle aged and senior saints in your church over a weekend?
In this first of a four episode mini-series, Al James chats with Tim Beilharz about the what, why and how of intergenerational ministry. Stay tuned in future episodes for a further deep dive from Youthworks' Intergenerational Ministry Roundtable and some practical conversations with Stuart Crawshaw (Soul Revival Church) and Tim Adams (Macquarie Anglican) on how they foster intergenerational churches.
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Prayer is one of the means of grace that God gives to his people to express faith and commune with God.
Continuing on from last week's episode, this week Josh Ord (Youth Minister, Hoxton Park Anglican Church) joins Al James to talk about how to engage teenagers to prayer, both in the church and within their households.
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Prayer is one of the means of grace that God gives to his people to express faith and commune with God.
Annemarie Rivers (Children's Ministry Advisor, Youthworks) joins Tim Beilharz to talk about how children's ministry leaders and families can help children learn the meaning and value of prayer as well as sharing tips on how to help children engage in prayer.
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Al James and Tim Beilharz bring you an update on the Youthworks podcast.
We're retiring 'Discipleship Under The Crown' and relaunching as 'The Effective Ministry Podcast'.
Our goal is to have conversations with local ministry leaders, as well as discussions with leading ministry experts, all for the purpose of helping you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your church.
Lockdown 2.0 isn't as big a shock. We've been here before. So what do we need to keep in mind to keep discipleship front and centre in Youth and Children's ministry while we can't meet face to face... again.
I'm joined by Tim Beilharz (tim.beilharz@youthworks.net) and Kate Haggar (kate.haggar@youthworks.net) to collect our thoughts for ministry in this phase of the pandemic.
If you'd like to speak to Youthworks advisor contact details are at youthworks.net/meet-the-team
Although Covid caused the first pause in SRE (Scripture) classes in our state’s history, SRE is as strong as ever.
I’ve invited Jenn Phillips, Youthworks High School SRE advisor to share the long and short of schools ministry. Nothing says long better than Jenn’s chat with Cameron Hyslop, who has been teaching SRE in his local schools for over 30 years. But stay turned for the short: practical tips to grow your relationships with your local schools.
If you'd like to get in touch with Jenn or any of our team of SRE advisors, jump onto youthworks.net/meet-the-team
Mike Dicker - Dean of Students at Youthworks College hosts a conversation with Emma Collet and Al James about the papers being presented at HOUSE Conference on 10-12 May 2021.
HOUSE Conference is happening about theological reflection for best practice in youth and children's ministry within a community of youth and children's ministers.
In 2021 we're exploring freedom, identity and how we can disciple young people to live in freedom with papers being presented by the Rev Dr Andrew Errington and the Rev Dr Lionel Windsor
Register for HOUSE at youthworks.net/house
Part 2 Faculty members of Youthworks College in Sydney, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo and Mike Dicker, join us to talk about suffering: What is it? What is God doing? How might God use suffering? How might young people respond in different ways and what can we do practically to engage with and disciple young people through suffering? Get in touch with Ruth or Mike: ruth.lukabyo@youthworks.net, mike.dicker@youthworks.net To find out more about Youthworks College: youthworkscollege.edu.au Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/ To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Part 1
Faculty members of Youthworks College in Sydney, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo and Mike Dicker, join us to talk about suffering:
What is it? What is God doing? How might God use suffering? How might young people respond in different ways and what can we do practically to engage with and disciple young people through suffering?
Get in touch with Ruth or Mike: ruth.lukabyo@youthworks.net, mike.dicker@youthworks.net
To find out more about Youthworks College: youthworkscollege.edu.au
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Lauren and Grant Van der Merwe join us to talk about the connection between vision/purpose/principles and the practices of youth ministry in situations where you can't just do the normal thing and how that keeps your ministry resilient for uncertain times.
Get in touch with Lauren or Grant: lauren.vandermerwe@standrews.net.au, grant.vandermerwe@standrews.net.au
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Matt Bartlett joins us to talk about resilient leaders. Matt has a wealth of youth ministry experience and is a Youth Ministry Advisor with Youthworks
He talks about the one thing that youth leadership must focus on in the uncertainty of the current moment, the threats to that focus and how to maintain that focus for the sake discipleship in youth ministry.
Get in touch with Matt: matt.bartlett@youthworks.net
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Chair of the Sydney Diocese Covid-19 Taskforce and Anglican Bishop of Sydney's Western Region shares reflections on Covid and encouragements for people in Youth Ministry to lead for endurance as they keep discipleship front and centre in an uncertain world. Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/ To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Miki Sinfield from Richmond Anglican Church returns to chat about how trainee leadership/junior leadership/equipping young people for ministry helped her youth in crisis, why they're still prioritising it in crisis, and how it will help after crisis.
For and article on helping your young people to keep serving: https://youthworks.net/articles/how-to-encourage-your-youth-to-keep-serving
Get in touch with Miki: rest.awe.youth@gmail.com
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
After a period of intense focus of facilitating ministry through change and disruption, the challenge is to restore the balance back to the ministry of people and relationships.
There will always be another change to endure and another time to focus on logistics, admin, programming and tech. Reflecting on our recent experience helps us prepare for
Miki Sinfield from Richmond Anglican Church shares her thoughts and experiences on getting back to people ministry after the initial madness of Covid-19.
Miki mentions The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Pain
Get in touch with Miki: rest.awe.youth@gmail.com
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Today we're joined by Josh Wilson from Life Anglican Church, Quakers Hill.
Just as a torch shows us the things we can't see in the dark, Covid-19 can show us some things we may not have seen or realised before about our ministry or our young people. We talk with Josh about what Covid has shown to the youth ministry at Quakers Hill and reflect on how they might intentionally take that information into the future as when they relaunch their youth ministry.
Get in touch with Josh: josh@lifeac.org.au.
Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Today we're joined by Jono Ward from Holy Trinity Anglican in Wentworth Falls. He talks about why the youth ministry is not putting a pause on growing relationships and what they're doing to make sure they've made ground by the time they're meeting face to face again. Get in touch with Jono at jono@holytrinityanglican.org.au To get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/ To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
For some, the mad scramble is over and we're rediscovering routine. At some point, we'll emerge from this crisis. Ed Springer joins us to talk about the various seasons of COVID-19.
You can read, Ed's article here.
Get in touch with Ed: ed.springer@youthworks.net
To get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources from Ed and others: youthworks.net
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks
James Chen from St Pauls Anglican Church, Carlingford joins us to talk about intentionally caring for and developing our leadership teams ina time when we're all doing it tough.
Get in touch with James at jamesc@stpaulsanglican.org.au
To get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
On this episode we talk with Tim Escott, former youth minister at St David's Forrestville, currently serving at St Mark's Darling Point having just completed a PhD in Old Testament Studies.
We focus today on responding pastorally and theologically to the crisis - the crisis itself more than the disruption to our ministry programs. We look at what the Old Testament in particular has to offer us in our pastoral response.
You can contact Tim at tim.escott@stmarksdp.org
To get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net
For more resources: youthworks.net/
To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/youthworks/
Today we're joined by Pat Jones - 6 years into serving at St Paul's Castle Hill as youth pastor.
Pat's helping us to think about planning in a crisis with the central question - where do you want your kids to be in their faith in 6 Months?
You can have a look at some of what Pat and his team have been doing in the early days of Covid-19.
Crossfire Youth - Engage (4 talks to help youth engage in who God is in a difficult season)
stpauls.church/ministries/youth/
Contact Pat at pat.jones@spch.org.au
To get in touch email al.james@youthworks.net
youthworks.net/
facebook.com/youthworks/
Today we talk to Callan Pritchard from Dundas/Telopea Anglican Church about why keeping evangelism front and centre is important in the Covid-19 pandemic and what his youth ministry is doing to help young people keep evangelising.
You can contact Callan at callan@dundasanglican.com.au
To get in touch email al.james@youthworks.net
youthworks.net/
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Today, we're joined by Mitch Everingham, youth pastor at St Faiths Narrabeen on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
He speaks to us about keeping Jesus command to love your neighbour on the agenda under heavy restrictions on face to face contact.
Contact Mitch at mitch@stfaiths.org.au.
Find the "can we help" button at stfaiths.org.au
To get in touch email al.james@youthworks.net