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Dave Roberts More Christmas Resources

More great stuff discovered by Ali Campbell 9 Lessons and Carols Resources * Jon Birch, who is a quality artist / illustrator and commentator on Church life, has created “9”, a series of short animated loops to go with a traditional 9 Lessons and Carols service. You can preview on youtube and buy it (yes you have to buy it, but it is only £2.99) from proost. Advent and Christmas Resource * I wish I had thought of this – and I wish I had the money to get stuff like this created (I… Continue

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

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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

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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

Dave Roberts Your Guide to Advent and Christmas Resources

The Family Ministry and Children's Ministry web site have created a big collection of the best resources dedicated to the Advent and Christmas season. You will also find Christmas related ideas in many other resource books - a few are also listed here. Church groups – under 5s Church groups – 5-11s Church groups – tweenagers Plays Schools All-age There is also a good range of Christmas story books, activity books and CDs with stories and music available for children and families. Check out the… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:21am — No Comments

Dave Roberts Friends and Heroes Issue Halloween Resource


Does the huge influence that Halloween is having on our children concern you? Do you want to do something about it? Friends and Heroes are delighted to announce the release of Bright Sparks - an exciting and fun Party Pack for churches and others involved in children's ministry to use on 31 October - or any party occasion! Bringing some Gos… Continue

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Dave Roberts Caris magazine aids Christian girls

I want Caris to help girls connect with God in their life as a teenager: to get his perspective on how loved they are, understand that life has a purpose, be inspired that they can make a difference, and understand that in God there’s hope for healing from emotional hurts. Through doing Caris I’ve also realised how important it is for Christian girls to realise that there are others out there who also love God. There’s so much peer pressure. It’s such a hard time in life to stand out from the cr… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on October 2, 2009 at 7:15pm — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts Angel sightings by children 'should not be dismissed'

Kate Adams, senior lecturer at the Anglican Bishop Grosseteste University College, in Lincoln, said failure to attend to young children’s spiritual needs could leave them feeling “misunderstood” and force many to “retreat into silence". It comes despite the fact that growing numbers of faith schools being opened across the UK and standards of religious education lessons are improved. More students are also opting to take A-levels in religious studies. But Dr Adams found that young children were… Continue

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Dave Roberts Scripture Union To Make Cuts

The mission organisation said it wanted to make the organisation more cost-effective, flexible and mission-focused. It aims to minimise overheads and fixed costs so that more resources can be invested in the longer-term development of frontline mission work.The freed up funds will go towards the organisation’s evangelism work, publishing, and holiday and mission events. One-on-one work with children and young people will be managed and funded regionally in order to boost flexibility and respons… Continue

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Dave Roberts Self esteem and young people - biblical understanding?

As Christian youth workers it is important that we understand issues of self-esteem as it can affect how our young people grow and develop, respond to and grow with God and participate in our youth work. It is particularly important that we delve behind the ‘pop culture’ definitions, explanations and response to the self-esteem issue – we need to have a healthy biblical understanding of self-esteem rather than a magazine-based set of tools to ‘solve the problem’.… Continue

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Dave Roberts Does Gender Effect How Children Learn

Stats from the DCSF last month showed how many children had reached early learning goals as a baseline before the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage from September 2008, and revealed a gender gap with girls outperforming boys. One in four boys couldn't write their own name compared with 15% of girls, and one in five couldn't count to ten. Girls were also found to be more creative than boys, whereas boys had a slightly better 'knowledge and understanding of the world' with 54% abl… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on August 28, 2009 at 9:37am — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts New Christian teen magazine launches

Christian teenagers around the country will now be able to pick up a new glossy, handbag sized, faith-based youth culture magazine after it launched on Monday. Packed with real-life stories, fashion, beauty, grooming, music, interviews, relationships, career and problem pages, Streetbrand says it is inspired by the Christian faith but not preachy and is aimed at 14 to 22 year olds who love God or identify with the Christian faith. Streetbrand will be published three times a year and will provi… Continue

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Dave Roberts Christian version of Top Trumps teaches children Biblical values

Trading cards game Top Trumps has been popular among young children for decades, but a new alternative Christian version of the game has been released to help children learn more about biblical characters and values. Christian version of Top Trumps teaches children Biblical values Children may be more used to seeing Top Trump cards featuring Marvel Super Heroes, Sports cars or even High School Musical characters. However, the Christian alternative, which was released earlier this year, sees car… Continue

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Dave Roberts 86% of churches work with children in the community

We have aimed to eliminate from our results all activities that are an integral part of practising religion. 86% of churches provide activities for children, young people and families in the community. Given that there are around 37,500 churches in England, this suggests a possible 32,000 churches working across England to provide services in this context. There is a substantial volunteer workforce involved, in addition to the paid workforce, with volunteers providing an average of 38 hours pe… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on August 5, 2009 at 2:01pm — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts Teaching the Bible to Erratic Attenders

How do you structure a programme for your group if many of the children are erratic attenders? A sequenced curriculum has been the traditional way to ensure that children work their way through all the Bible stories and teaching appropriate for their age. But this presumes that children come regularly. What about children who only come along to your groups once or twice a month? Can we put together programmes that still give them an understanding of the 'big God story' and the way that the Bib… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on August 5, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Dave Roberts Messy Church 2 is here

Lucy Moore is a professional actor and storyteller. Based in Portsmouth, she is an experienced speaker, workshop leader and performer and a member of the Barnabas Ministry Team. She is a member of Equity, the actor’s union, and her interest in drama and storytelling, all-age church and collective worship in schools, takes her into schools and churches around the country. In 2004 she was part of a team which set up a ‘fresh expressions’ church which has become widely known as Messy Church. I rec… Continue

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Dave Roberts New Children's Ministry Resources Reviewed

Children’s worker and mum, Susie Blundell, takes a look through a range of newer resources for this key group of church workers Children's workers; 'Baby sitters' with paint under their finger nails, irritating enthusiasm and champions of action songs? Or teachers, with the awesome responsibility and privilege of working with children and young people, seeing them grow into a relationship with God, and witnessing their incredible journey of faith? Our children are important, and children's wor… Continue

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Dave Roberts Duet 6 - always has been the best way to help children learn

Engaging children in basic conversation could be up to six times more effective than reading to them, US health experts believe. Even if the baby or toddler cannot form words, their primitive responses to a conversation helps develop their language skills, they said. What the study calls “adult monologueing” - in other words, grown ups talking at children - had a “weak” impact on language development, said the study. Letting babies watch television has virtually no impact, good or bad, on this… Continue

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Dave Roberts Failing can be good for the child

As some parents erase every difficulty, their children never enter the school of hard knocks. As the psychologist Prof Martin Seligman, author of The Optimistic Child, points out, "Children need to fail… If we leap in to bolster self-esteem to soften the blows… we make it harder for them to achieve mastery." But the problems of the cosseted middle classes pale in comparison to the children struggling with poverty and deprivation. Often prematurely branded as failures by the education system, ma… Continue

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Dave Roberts The marshmallow temptation and children's futures

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