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101 Risky Ideas to Try in your Youth Work

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101 Risky Ideas to Try in your Youth Work

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Grove Booklet: Detached Youth Work: Mission at the Margins

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Grove Booklet: Detached Youth Work: Mission at the Margins

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Detached youth work—ministry to young people that meets them where they are at, rather than requiring them to travel to a venue—has the potential to reach the socially excluded and discover what good news looks like on the margins. This essential guide suggests that if heard rather than told, young people can offer critiques and alternative practices that will flourish and positively impact the wider community.

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Detached youth work-ministry to young people that meets them where they are at, rather than requiring them to travel to a venue-has the potential to reach the socially excluded and discover what good news looks like on the margins. This essential guide suggests that if heard rather than told, young people can offer critiques and alternative practices that will flourish and positively impact the wider community.

Steve Blower is a Youth Specialist Baptist minister with a degree in Schools, Youth and Community work with Practical Theology. Over the past 20 years he has worked with youth organizations, churches and schools and is currently developing projects with young people in Scarborough. He loves baking things to eat and fermenting things to drink.

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Detached youth work-ministry to young people that meets them where they are at, rather than requiring them to travel to a venue-has the potential to reach the socially excluded and discover what good news looks like on the margins.

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A great primer on pioneer youth ministry

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In a postmodern, post-Christendom culture, existing models of church-based youth work are mostly failing to reach the young people marginalized by church and society.

Pioneer ministry offers a vibrant, flexible, multi-faceted approach to youth work that can adapt to the needs of local contexts with greater fluidity than traditional church structures. This useful guide explores how the pioneer approach can be implemented, managed, and sustained, and offers advice for would-be pioneers as well as those seeking to work with them.

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In a postmodern, post-Christendom culture, existing models of church-based youth work are mostly failing to reach the young people marginalized by church and society. Pioneer ministry offers a vibrant, flexible, multi-faceted approach to youth work that can adapt to the needs of local contexts with greater fluidity tha

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Anvil Journal: Pioneering Youth Ministry Edition

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Anvil Journal: Pioneering Youth Ministry Edition

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Eight articles to help you think more about pioneering youth ministry.

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Dr Mark Scanlan seeks to develop a theology of equal opportunity for pioneer youth mission by discussing the concept of ministry and mission with young people as a co-construction.

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From Newport, South Wales, Ed Hodge and Matt Davis of the Lab reflect on a journey from trying to solve people's problems towards co-creating theology...

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Dylan Barker looks at sharing food - an incredibly common way to encourage participation that almost goes unexamined.

Participation - sharing food

Debs North shares how youth work invites us to listen to young people's insight as well as protect them from their naivety.

Links to past volumes of ANVIL, stretching right back to 1984. Many of these articles are now available online.

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ANVIL: journal of theology and mission | Volume 34 issue 2 - Church Mission Society

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Dr Mark Scanlan seeks to develop a theology of equal opportunity for pioneer youth mission by discussing the concept of ministry and mission with young people as a co-construction. Read article or download From Newport, South Wales, Ed Hodge and Matt Davis of the Lab reflect on a journey from trying to solve people's problems towards co-creating theology...

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Hot Chocolate Trust is a Youth Work organisation, based in Dundee city centre. It is open to all young people without prejudice or distinction of religion, race, culture, health, disability, gender, hair colour, sexuality or politics.

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Hot Chocolate Trust is a Youth Work organisation, based in Dundee city centre. It is open to all young people without prejudice or distinction of religion, race, culture, health, disability, gender, hair colour, sexuality or politics. The only restrictions are of age: secondary school age up to 21 yrs old.

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About Us. Hot Chocolate Trust is a Youth Work organisation, based in Dundee city centre. It is open to all young people without prejudice or distinction of religion, race, culture, health, disability, gender, hair colour, sexuality or politics. The only restrictions are of age: secondary school age up to 21 yrs old.

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Youth Homeless Hub & Youth Project in Coventry City Centre

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In the Summer and Autumn of 2014, we noticed a significant increase in young people coming to us who were struggling with homelessness. We decided to respond but didn't know what would be the best thing to do. With Urban Hope, a pioneer Church of England Church whom we work closely with, we received a grant from the Together Fund to produce a report about the situation in Coventry and what gaps in provision there were.

​Three areas were identified:​

· Advocacy

· Follow on accommodation after supported accommodation

· Emergency accommodation​

The Church and Bardsley Youth Project decided we would like to pursue all three options, starting with the Homelessness Hub. This was a natural progression of our existing work. Bardsley Youth Project was already set up to support young people in a holistic way, pulling together many needs and adapting support to each individual. An award from the Christian Initiative Trust of £20,000 in 2015 paid for our first year, setting us on our way. A further three years funding from Jumping Through Hoops via Heart of England Community Foundation has established the project and we now see 20% of young people that are turned away from Council Homelessness Services with little or no help, working to remove any barriers that stop young people getting a home, equipping it and keeping it.

In the future we would like to have emergency accommodation as there is currently none for under 25s in Coventry and affordable accommodation for young people who are homeless and working and cannot afford the rent at a hostel without access to benefits.

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In the Summer and Autumn of 2014, we noticed a significant increase in young people coming to us who were struggling with homelessness. We decided to respond but didn't know what would be the best thing to do.

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Welcome Home

Join a Movement building a Better World...

A dispersed community of people and independent projects taking pioneering risks with young people on the margins across the UK.

What is pioneering with young people? It's mixing up the ingredients of young people's context and culture, the Christian story, and the traditions of church and youth work, to imagine and create a better world for young people. It's Youth clubs, detached (street) work, counselling, mentoring, in-school, at work, at home, on the church council... Wherever you meet or affect young people, your missional imagination can bring about a better world.

Why join the Movement? We are a group of pioneers - of missional risk-takers - seeking to build a better world for young people. Join us. Meet other like-minded pioneers who care about young people. Find resources, training, brilliant ideas, and fellow-travellers to inspire and support you.
Together we are building a better world for young people. We are...

Working with young people - at work, home, youth club, on the street, in school, in the community.

Creating new possibilities - new projects, new resources, new initiatives

Growing the movement - calling others to the margins, speaking out, leading, giving time & money.

Changing the system - advocating, stewarding resources, leverage opportunities, campaigning

Join us. Start training today, Find resources for your practice, and sign-up to our movement newsletter

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A dispersed community of people and independent projects taking pioneering risks with young people on the margins across the UK. What is pioneering with young people? It's mixing up the ingredients of young people's context and culture, the Christian story, and the traditions of church and youth work, to imagine and create a better world for young people.

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If you have an idea and passion to meet the needs of vulnerable young people in your area, and you share our values and approach then we would love to talk to you about joining in with us.

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We see Worth Unlimited as a family

When you join with us you we believe you gain a lot towards delivering your vision for high quality youth and community work in your neighbourhood, but we also believe that our family has a lot to gain from having you on board too. As a family, we share the ups and downs of running projects together and we're in it together for the long term.

If you have an idea and passion to meet the needs of vulnerable young people in your area, and you share our values and approach then we would love to talk to you about joining in with us.

Some of the advantages to being part of Worth Unlimited are:

Being part of a learning network

Being part of an established charity - no need to go through the process of legal charity formation

Payroll, bookkeeping, tax and legal arrangements taken care of

Access to programmes developed across our organisation

Access to larger funders through inter-branch partnership bids

Comprehensive policy framework in place with associated forms and paperwork where necessary.

Support with recruitment and staff/volunteer management

Direct access to our experienced youth work practitioners

If you would like a conversation to explore becoming part of our family contact us using our web form

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We see Worth Unlimited as a family When you join with us you we believe you gain a lot towards delivering your vision for high quality youth and community work in your neighbourhood, but we also believe that our family has a lot to gain from having you on board too.

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Million Minutes & Courtyard

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During Lent, our siLENT participants created 31,380 minutes of silence, and a staggering £3,500 and counting. Their action joined with thousands of others, to speak up for young people and the money they raised will help to transform young people's lives across the country. A big THANK YOU to all those involved.

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During Lent, our siLENT participants created 31,380 minutes of silence, and a staggering £3,500 and counting. Their action joined with thousands of others, to speak up for young people and the money they raised will help to transform young people's lives across the country. A big THANK YOU to all those involved.

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Thirtyone Eight can help with child protection & DBS checks

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Get help, resources and advice that are right for your organisation from people who care and understand, plus get discounts on selected products and services along with all the benefits of being part of a supportive community of thousands of organisations nationwide.

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Get help, resources and advice that are right for your organisation from people who care and understand, plus get discounts on selected products and services along with all the benefits of being part of a supportive community of thousands of organisations nationwide. Find out more

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Four positive and inclusive views...

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Subtitle: Effective Ministry to Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, and Questioning Students Among Us

Author: Mark Oestreicher, General Editor
Contributors: Gemma Dunning, Nick Elio, Shelley Donaldson, and Eric Woods
What do I do when a teenager comes out to me? How do I respond in a way that's helpful rather than creating additional problems?
4 Views on Pastoring LGBTQ Teenagers is a frank and compassionate conversation with four in-the-trenches youth workers who have wrestled with these questions and strengthened their ministries as a result. In fact, it's out of real-life experience with gay, bi, cisgender, trans, queer, or questioning teens in their own youth groups that these youth workers are able to offer up their approaches-approaches which are then not theoretical at all, but practical and born of relational, everyday ministry.

Will you find all the answers in this book? No. Look elsewhere for theological debate; look elsewhere for pat, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Youth ministry is often messy and complex, but it's a divine calling to connect every youth with Jesus: straight, gay, bi, cisgender, trans, queer, or questioning.

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Subtitle: Effective Ministry to Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, and Questioning Students Among Us Author: Mark Oestreicher, General Editor Contributors: Gemma Dunning, Nick Elio, Shelley Donaldson, and Eric Woods What do I do when a teenager comes out to me?

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10 Free Activities for young leaders & activists...

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Training up young people to take the lead, both in your youth work and in the world around them is really important. Here are 10 free activities from our Zine young leader training programme to get you started.
Download 10 free youth leadership activities
Zine is a magazine-style training programme for young activists and leaders. It has over 40 quick activities to equip young people to be change-makers. The magazine is available in our online shop.

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10 training activities for young leaders and activists

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Training up young people to take the lead, both in your youth work and in the world around them is really important. Here are 10 free activities from our Zine young leader training programme to get you started. Download 10 free youth leadership activities Zine is a magazine-style training programme for young activists and leaders.

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An experimental approach to discipleship - give your group an experiment based on Jesus' life - ask them to reflect on their experience. Two resources available from FYT.

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Following the success of our practical discipleship course, The Experiments, now comes The Experiments 2.

This twelve-week discipleship resource is based on both the humanity and divinity of Jesus. Each week the participants are asked to engage in a task that reflects a characteristic of Jesus and then reflect on it with the group the following week.

This practical approach to discipleship suits and is designed for those on the edge of faith communities. It is easy to access and requires no experience or
understanding within the Christian tradition to participate.

The Experiments is based on an action learning cycle - starting with a set of experiments which the group can try throughout the week. At the following session stories and experiences are shared; with reflective activities to kick-start deeper learning and regular collecting process to capture learning and celebrate participation and achievement.

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Following the success of our practical discipleship course, The Experiments, now comes The Experiments 2. This twelve-week discipleship resource is based on both the humanity and divinity of Jesus. Each week the participants are asked to engage in a task that reflects a characteristic of Jesus and then reflect on it with the group the following week.

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Review of alternative video games that you could use with a youth group (from GeekDadGamer).
https://fyt.org.uk/tag/video-game-review/

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Full PSHE resource for youth workers on Sex & Relationships.

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PODS are resources for youth workers, teachers and parents that enable us to connect with young people around subjects that can often be awkward or easily avoided.

PODS are produced by Lemon Jelly Youth Work who are passionate about getting young people and adults talking openly, wondering together, asking difficult questions and cutting pathways through the crazy maze of being human in our time.

Our young people (and us!) experience more pressure on more issues than any generation before - and don't have enough tools, frameworks, and belief systems to help them make brilliant informed choices.

Lemon Jelly believes that Personal Social and Health Education should not be left to schools; youth workers and parents are in unique positions to have good conversations on a more regular and natural basis. PODS is about getting adults thinking about the breadth of the issues, asking their own difficult questions, as well as giving lots and lots of ideas and resources for how to make it happen!

PODS 1 is the sex and relationships edition and contains 44 pages packed with ideas and information and articles by experts in their fields.

The 6 topics covered are:

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PODS 1 - The Sex and Relationships Edition

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PODS are resources for youth workers, teachers and parents that enable us to connect with young people around subjects that can often be awkward or easily avoided. PODS are produced by Lemon Jelly Youth Work who are passionate about getting young people and adults talking openly, wondering together, asking difficult questions and cutting pathways through the crazy maze of being human in our time.

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What represents your spiritual life: symbols, stories, actions, ways of thinking. An activity and accompanying resource to engage young people in discipleship in the everyday. Get the resource OR run the activity yourself by gathering a big box of trinkets - ask your group to pick 5 that represent where they experience God.

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Author: Frontier Youth Trust
Do you want young people to engage with an everyday discipleship and spiritual life? This is a resource to help youth workers take young people on a journey into Christian discipleship.
We asked more than 300 young people and youth workers to make a Spiritual Selfie - a picture of things that represented their spiritual life. These items symbolised a habit, behaviour, practice, routine, or way of thinking that the young person or youth worker used to sustain their faith. The items included practical resources, symbols of ways to meet God, meaningful things to do, and metaphors for ways of thinking. Building on young people's responses to our My Spiritual Selfie project, this resource offers 30+ reflections and activities for youth workers and young people. The set of cards follow the story of Acts over eight themes to explore mission and discipleship, culminating in young people and youth workers building their own spiritual selfie as a resource to sustain them.

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Author: Frontier Youth Trust Do you want young people to engage with an everyday discipleship and spiritual life? This is a resource to help youth workers take young people on a journey into Christian discipleship. We asked more than 300 young people and youth workers to make a Spiritual Selfie - a picture of things that represented their spiritual life.

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Here be dragons - Youthwork and Mission off the Map

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Here be dragons - Youthwork and Mission off the Map

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"Here be Dragons" follows on from the best selling book "Meet them where they're at", exploring the space where missional youth work and emerging church content.

Introducing the concept of Symbiotic Youth Work as a way of exploring the relationship between young people, us and the missionary God who crosses frontiers towards humanity, discovering together what it means to be and grow church in a new land.

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Here Be Dragons, Youth Work and Mission Off the Map

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"Here be Dragons" follows on from the best selling book "Meet them where they're at", exploring the space where missional youth work and emerging church content. Introducing the concept of Symbiotic Youth Work as a way of exploring the relationship between young people, us and the missionary God who crosses frontiers towards humanity, discovering together what it means to be and grow church in a new land.