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07.07.08Faithworks: Resourcing Christian community workFaithworks is a movement of thousands of individuals, churches and organisations motivated by their Christian faith to serve the needs of their local communities and positively influence society as a whole. Faithworks exists to resource, inspire and speak up for these vital initiatives. I love what Faithworks is about, resource Christians be do professional, high quality community action. This magazine is great & every time I get it I feel very inspired with my work and get some hope for the Churches work with the community. One tool that I think would be very helpful for any church or Christian ...
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01.19.08Theology is bull unless…Quote from a friend: 'Unless theology leads to mission (or mission dei) then its just bull***t.' I must confess that I am a little boring and enjoy a good debate about theology to the distress of my wife. Yet as I thought more and more about this and the areas of theology that I get passionate about, I came to realise that in fact I now only really enjoy talking about theology that is practical, that can be applied or lead to praxis. I get so born and my eyes glaze over when talking about the theology of creation Vs. evolution or the ...
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01.17.08Young Life - change the message as well as the methodsI was reading this artical on Christianity Today. It talks about Young Life (YL) fireing or accepted resignations from 10 staff members in the Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, basically, as far as I can tell, because the staff members were not upholding the traditions of the way YF explains the Gospel. Later on the artical states: "When composing the Non-Negotiables document, YL leaders were evidently concerned to differentiate between style and substance. "We affirm Young Life's style is relational and incarnational," the statement reads. "This means that our proclamation of the gospel will most always proceed from ...
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01.05.08How can Youth Work/Ministry be in the Third PlacesThe Third Place is a term coined by US sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1990 book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. Oldenburg sees the “first” place as our home and those we live with. Our second place is the workplace (school, college, university) — where we spend most of our days. But third places anchor community life and offer the benefits that come with broader interaction. All societies have informal meeting places. Oldenburg sees the essential ingredients of third places as: they ...
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12.30.07Introduction to: Community Development and Community WorkThere is a good introduction to Community Development and Community Work.Heres a snippet… “Community development is best used to refer to a process, or a way of doing something, which entails the mobilisation, participation and involvement of local people on common issues important to them.” “Community work, on the other hand, is often used as a general term and refers to initiatives or activities that are delivered at a local level that may not actively involve members of the community as participants but merely as users of services. “ Also try: Infed on ...
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12.20.07Low Cost Easy Servant Evangelism 1Hot Chocolate Giveaway: The UK is getting cold! So giving Hot Chocolate away is a great way to make contact with folks who are out in this weather. Here are a few groups of people that you may find: - Shoppers, - Marker store worker - Road sweepers - Police - Traffic Wardens - (my personal favourite) Groups off Teenagers who hang around the streets even though its freezing. USE FAIR TRADE HOT CHOCOLATE
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12.20.07Missional Ministry MatrixOne of the most helpful and practical things that I have ever read regarding ministry was in Mark Driscoll’s (from Mars Hill Church, Seattle, USA & Acts 29 Church Planting Network) new book: Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Leadership Network Innovation). So I decided to start to look at the four areas of the Missional Ministry Matrix (MMM): 1. Christology 2. Ecclesiology 3. Missiology 4. Ministry Through looking at these four areas, it will help me think though my current youth work/ministry.
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12.20.07Youth Work/Ministry 3.0 and the ChurchMark Driscoll the pastor of Mars Hill Church Seattle, USA, has a really interesting post here on Church 3.0. I have put the post into a grid to see the different ‘grades’ of church side by side: CHURCH 1.0 CHURCH 2.0 CHURCH 3.0 In this version, the church is traditional and institutional… Today’s dominant church form is contemporary and seeker-sensitive… This incarnation of the church emerging and missional… The cultural context is modern. The cultural context is somewhere between modern and postmodern. The cultural context is postmodern and pluralistic. The ...
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