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Dave Roberts Role Models for Girls - What the Guides Found

'A third of all girls across the younger age groups (7-16 years) chose Cheryl Cole as the best role model for girls of their age, making her by far the most popular choice. Among 7- to 11-year-olds, no other candidate was named by more than one in ten girls overall. However, their second choice, with 8 per cent of the vote, was the Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington, and JK Rowling and Katie Price/Jordan also scored relatively highly with 7 per cent each. Katie Price/Jordan was a much more popula… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on November 5, 2009 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts Dads want more time with Kids

Dads are working long hours, struggling to balance work and family life and four in ten say they don't spend enough time with their children, according to a report published today from the Equality and Human Rights Commission which you can download here. Forty five per cent of fathers don't take the two weeks paternity leave that they're entitled to, most because they can't afford to - it's paid at a statutory rate of £123.06 a week. And forty per cent don't ask for flexible work arrangements th… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts ASBOJESUS on Child Friendly Songs

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Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 3:01pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts Christmas Unwrapped - A Resource for Year Six

Over the last 15 years I have been involved with Slough Baptist Church based on an initiative for local primary schools that has been very well received. My heart is to see it develop wider and I wanted to let you know about it for your information and action if you think appropriate. The idea is that a local primary school visits a local Church for a morning or afternoon to focus on Christmas. The aim: To provide a warm welcome to the children and staff who attend and to communicate the story… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts YFC wants to reach every young offender

Youth for Christ has overhauled its young offenders ministry in a bid to fulfil its vision of bringing a message of hope to every young offender in the UK. The Reflex ministry has been restructured and rebranded to become a national ministry with regional partnerships running in collaboration with other organisations across the UK. The ministry works with young people in custody and in the community through detached youth work, mentoring and resettlement programmes, and gives them a step up fo… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

B. Hudson The Heart Of Jesus

The sole Mission of B. Hudson Ministry is to motivate, inspire and enable parents to teach their children about Jesus while they are in their informative years. Studies show that, the younger a person is when they learn about Christ; the more likely they are to receive Him as their personal Savior. Jesus said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 19:14 King James Version B. Hudson Ministry has created the tools that… Continue

Added by B. Hudson on October 31, 2009 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Ali Campbell Christmas Resource Guide - From the Diocese of Chichester Youth and Children's Team (YES)

Hi all, The following is my "E-news" which I send out around the Diocese of Chichester, hope it is of use here too . . . So, in no particular order: www.youngpeoplessunday.org.uk This is a great website from the Frontier Youth Trust, encouraging churches to have a Sunday during the year when they focus on young people. So there are dramas, activities, talk ideas etc. As you visit the site you will notice a topic called “Christ… Continue

Added by Ali Campbell on October 27, 2009 at 9:18am — No Comments

R Wood Child Protection Author Back on BBC

Rebecca Andrews, author of Policing Innocence has once again been asked by the BBC to assist and advise their audience on the sensitive subject of child protection, particularly the topical tragedy of female abusers. On Sunday morning she held 12 interviews with BBC radio stations nationwide, covering the breadth of the country from Newcastle to Newquay. This is the second occasion Rebecca has been asked to conduct such extensive interviews and she is often asked to speak on the… Continue

Added by R Wood on October 19, 2009 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts Children In Prayer - Inspiring Insights From Around The World

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Added by Dave Roberts on October 19, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts Youth Evanglism Fund Sponsoring New Mission Projects

Young people in Coventry Diocese are about to blend their love for God with their love of ice-cream by opening an ice cream parlour, to give away ice-creams and host events for young people in the area who fancy a fun flavour of church life. Meanwhile, in Chester Diocese a Christian Union wants to run the Sock Project to communicate God’s love to their school using sock puppets, running events and film-based discussions, and performing random acts of kindness in the school lunch hour. These ar… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts VeggieTales and Samaritan's Purse team up for kids at Christmas

The loveable talking vegetable characters, the VeggieTales, have joined forces with the UK’s largest shoebox appeal, Operation Christmas Child, to encourage families to put compassion at the heart of the ‘recession-hit’ Christmas. Last year over 1.2 million gift-filled shoeboxes were sent to children in Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the help of around 8,000 volunteers in the UK. Simon Barrington, Executive Director of Samaritan’s Purse - the charity which runs Operation Christma… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

Dave Roberts School children show heart for poor in London march

Hundreds of secondary school children and sixth form students walked through the capital on Wednesday to raise funds for Catholic Children's Society's work with vulnerable children. The school children, who came from all over the capital, walked from Hyde Park Corner to Westminster Cathedral for the "Walk a Mile in Their Shoes" event. The walk concluded with an ecumenical service at Westminster Cathedral, presided over by Monsignor Seamus O’Boyle, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Westminste… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:50am — No Comments

Dave Roberts Do adults have more positive view of teenage girls?

The statistic in the survey that made the biggest impression on me was the fact that 78% of teenage boys said adults had a higher opinion of teenage girls than boys. I grew up in a family of four sisters and attended an all-girls school, while for the last 20 years or so I've lived in an all male household with my husband, sons and a male lodger for a while (although we did have a female snake for a few years!) From my experience teenage boys are far more straight-forward and less complicated… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Dave Roberts Move over Harry Potter! G P Taylor launches children's adventure books

Authentic Media have released a paperback edition of The First Escape, the first title in The DoppleGanger Chronicles, an exciting six book series with Christian themes by bestselling author G P Taylor. The book combines text, full page illustrations, word art, graphics and manga comic strip to tell its exciting adventure story. The First Escape (ISBN 9781860247743, price £7.99, paperback) introduces Isambard Dunstan’s School for Wayward Children where fourteen-year-old identical twins Sadie a… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

Dave Roberts PM's Office says childsitting friends don't have to register with Ofsted

The Prime Minister's Office has told petitioners that friends looking after children informally should not have to register with Ofsted. A petition, signed by 19,890 people, expressed support for policewomen Leanne Shepherd and Lucy Jarrett, who were prevented from looking after each other's children while one of them was working because this was defined as "childcare for reward". They would have to register as childminders under the Childcare Act 2006.… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 12, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

Shaun Turner Harvest Festival address - ideas/pointers

Hi all! It's midnight as I write this and I am ploughing through an essay but, I have in mind that I need to write the address for our school church service Monday am :o I am fishing for ideas around which I could talk to 400 primary school children for 5-7 mins. It's the first time I have done this and I am really pleased to have been asked and fantastically, I am a "little" nervous ;) I am sure that God will put something on me to say but, plan b is to ask you kind people for some one liner… Continue

Added by Shaun Turner on October 9, 2009 at 11:12pm — 3 Comments

Dave Roberts The Bible - Lego Style

Here is God creating woman. You'll find this and many other Biblical stories at the Brick Testament Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 9, 2009 at 2:38pm — 3 Comments

Erik Keith Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

The Adobe Foundation and The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation today unveiled a new public service announcement called “Plant Inspiration.” The PSA promotes the launch of Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit that stresses the pow… Continue

Added by Erik Keith on October 7, 2009 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Janet Evans New chick lit Christian fiction title for 10-14s

New title for 10-14s, Beech Bank Girls, Every Girl Has a Story, by Eleanor Watkins. Sorry the picture is so big, everyone; I don't know how to make it smaller . . . Still, you get the picture, hehe! Blurb: Six teenage friends draw nearer to God and each other through… Continue

Added by Janet Evans on October 6, 2009 at 12:45pm — 2 Comments

Dave Roberts Film Clips for Talks - A Treasure Trove

ScreenVue is an online resource for churches and ministries looking for movie clips to use in their teachings for illustrative purposes. We offer movie Clips from major studios, independent studios, and Christian studios - many of these unique and very hard to find. Your church will need to have the video license that is available from CCLI (in the UK) You can preview and download the clips and the site has several dozen themes and the clips that might relate to them Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:51am — No Comments

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Role Models for Girls - What the Guides Found

Dads want more time with Kids

ASBOJESUS on Child Friendly Songs

Christmas Unwrapped - A Resource for Year Six

YFC wants to reach every young offender

The Heart Of Jesus

Christmas Resource Guide - From the Diocese of Chichester Youth and Children's Team (YES)

Child Protection Author Back on BBC

Children In Prayer - Inspiring Insights From Around The World

Youth Evanglism Fund Sponsoring New Mission Projects

VeggieTales and Samaritan's Purse team up for kids at Christmas

School children show heart for poor in London march

Do adults have more positive view of teenage girls?

Move over Harry Potter! G P Taylor launches children's adventure books

PM's Office says childsitting friends don't have to register with Ofsted

Harvest Festival address - ideas/pointers

The Bible - Lego Style

Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

New chick lit Christian fiction title for 10-14s

Film Clips for Talks - A Treasure Trove

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