No one expects us to be fully present to kids, least of all the church. We continually receive the message that parents, church board members, and pastors are happy as long as we produce as many programs in as few hours as possible. Contemplative Youth Ministry – pp125 I remember my first official youth ministry [...]
Presence Centred Ministry it’s a Nice Idea But…
A little while ago I posted a review of a book by Mike King called “Presence Centred Youth Ministry” and earlier I posted a good number of reviews and thoughts on Yaconelli’s book “Contemplative Youth Ministry” both of which I’ve put up with “Starting Right,” “Practicing Passion,” “God Bearing Life.” “Way To Live” and “4 [...]
Fundraising For Youth Groups (Post 02)
I’ve always wanted to run this fund-raiser, however no church I’ve been connected with have ever been keen enough to take it seriously…. or me seriously for that matter. The idea comes out of the need to support people within the community to do something, whether to be NCYC or Interns in Mission or even [...]
Fundraising For Youth Groups (Post 01)
I’ve been asked to write up a few fund-raising ideas for a mate on the NCYC09 crew, and, to tell you the truth I’ve got a major beef about fund-raising activities by the church for events like NCYC, Summer Camps, Conferences, Mission Trips, Activities… The major beef is that we, as a church always talk [...]
Mobile Thelogy… Part 4 – “Waterholes, Bores and Mobile Towers”
A while ago Fuzz Kitto told a story about a cattle farmer from overseas who visited a farm in Australia. After being there for a while the farmer noticed that, to his surprise this farm didn’t have any fences. When the farmer asked why there were no fences to hold the cattle within the boundary [...]
Mobile Theology… Part 4 – “(Don’t) Make it About Me”
I’m torn in writing this post, partially because I’m not too sure about the title and partially because this particular idea is a tad more difficult than what I’d originally planned on writing. Mobile phone accessories are everywhere, if you want a new cover, screensaver, personalised ring tone, piece of material to stick to the [...]
Mobile Theology… Part 3 – “Make it Interactive”
Pamela Writes in her article “Mobile Marketing: Look Before You Leap“… When I got the e-mail announcing a BMW mobile marketing campaign to promote the 3 series, I was pretty excited. I’ve been keeping an eye on mobile marketing for years, and see a lot of potential for the medium. Then, I actually looked at [...]
Mobile Theology… Part 2 – “Make it Portable”
There’s a fantastic scene in the incredibly bad comedy movie “I Spy” where Owen Wilson picks up his spy camera and says something like “this is a spy camera? people want to say look how sleek and tiny this is, not lot how ginormous it is” Mobile technology is allowing us to carry almost everything with [...]
Mobile Theology… Post 1
This year, Big Brother in Australia has embraced the concept of “mobile marketing”. The range of mobile phone options including ring tones, web access, wallpaper images, games, moblogging, live video feed, texting the Uplate TV show, voting, entering competitions, entering mobile phone auctions and receiving text updates… And I’m sure there’s more… One thing that [...]
Labels
Liberal, conservative, Christian, evangelical, Catholic, Mennonite, Republican, Democratic, theist, atheist, Baptist, One of my newest pet peeves is labels. I suppose to some extent labels are okay, and maybe even necessary, but most of the time they annoy me. Especially when someone tries to tag a label on me or even when I try to [...]





