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Youth work goes green
Director of Soul Action, David Westlake, asks: how important should the environment and taking care of creation be in our list of discipleship priorities?
Justice: the soul of the story
Matt Valler explores how justice is ‘the soul of the story’ – and how the gospel we present to young people could be too small.
Tough Texts: The New Testament
Alongside our series of meeting guides, Greg Downes picks apart the tricky texts from the New Testament
that your young people are struggling with.
RESOURCES
ADAPTABLE MEETING GUIDE #1
New Testament tough texts: Can God be both three and one? By Tom Wade.
ADAPTABLE MEETING GUIDE #2
New Testament tough texts: What happened on the cross? By John Allan.
ADAPTABLE MEETING GUIDE #3
New Testament tough texts: Is Paul out of date? By Mark Walley.
ADAPTABLE MEETING GUIDE #4
New Testament tough texts: What does the book of Revelation mean for me? By Steve Griffiths.
READY-TO-USE MOVIE
Movie-based discussion resource by Tom Wade.
READY-TO-USE DISCUSSION
Discussion starter by Jamie Cutteridge.
READY-TO-USE MUSIC
Music-based discussion resource by Becky May.
READY-TO-USE STORYBOARD
A visual discussion prompt from illustrator Jason Ramasami.
READY-TO-USE GAMES AND ICEBREAKERS
Jimmy Young provides some games to play in the dark.
READY-TO-USE SAINTS AND MARTYRS
Resource for youth workers using the lectionary.
SCHOOLSWORK
Two pages of schools work resources compiled by schoolswork.co.uk.
News
http://www.youthworkawards.co.uk/
groupdo.co.uk
How to: Engage young people with green issues
Other useful resources
‘L’ is for Lifestyle - Ruth Valerio
The Carbon Fast - www.tearfund.org/carbonfast
Find your nearest allotment - http://www.allotment.org.uk/
10:10 Carbon Challenge - http://www.1010global.org/uk/organisations/faith
Justice soul of the story
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Why should we care about the environment? David Westlake examines the importance of how we live in the world, and why it matters for people who love the creator, and his creation.
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I preached in my church a couple of weeks ago, and was assigned a passage: 1 Corinthians 3. There were two strange aspects of this experience, both of which were good for me.
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Rhythms of justice
It was the height of summer. For a couple of weeks the rain abated and as the sun shone I sat inside – like millions of my fellow countryfolk – and munched on some cake while watching a few exceptional people achieve sporting greatness. If only I could run like that, I thought to myself, while licking the last of the icing from my plate.
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