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Dave Roberts Eating Disorders and Self Harm Seminar

Jo Fitzsimmons from FYT will be leading a day on Eating Disorders and Self Harm at the Diocesan Office in Harborne on Saturday 6 February 2010, again from 10am to 3:30pm. Tickets cost £10 including lunch. Self Harm is often a subject youth workers are frightenedby – this training aims to help you consider yourresponse from having ‘a hunch’ a young person is self harming, knowing best practice procedures and supporting young people coping with self injury. The

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Added by Dave Roberts on December 4, 2009 at 5:13pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts What do you say to an eight-year-old girl?

You meet a friend with her eight-year-old daughter when you're out shopping, or at church, or over at her house for lunch. You don't know the little girl very well, so what's the first thing you say to her? I had a very interesting conversation with Mark Green at LICC the other day, and he observed that adults tend, in that context, to comment on the girl's appearance: 'You look very pretty today,' or 'That's a lovely dress'. And if that's the only thing we commend them for, or always the first… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on December 4, 2009 at 4:52pm — 3 Comments

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

Added by Dave Roberts on November 25, 2009 at 1:00pm — 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

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 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 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

Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

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

Added by Dave Roberts on October 1, 2009 at 6:17am — No Comments

Dave Roberts 4-14 Window is a Mission Priority

Luis Bush, international facilitator of Transform World Connections, coined the term "10/40" two decades ago to refer to regions of the eastern hemisphere located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator - home to largest population of non-Christians in the world. While the 10/40 paradigm refers to a geographical area, the 4/14 Window concerns itself with children and youth between the ages of four and 14 who are growing up outside of the church. “There is a recognition that we are losin… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on September 21, 2009 at 3:54pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts Girlfriend abuse - the facts

Research from the NSPCC and the University of Bristol has found that one in three teenage girls suffer some form of sexual abuse in relationships with boyfriends, while a quarter suffer physical violence such as being slapped, punched or beaten. One in six have felt pressured to have intercourse, while one in 16 have been raped. Around 90 per cent of 13- to 17-year-olds of both sexes have been in intimate relationships, and girls who are in relationships with older boyfriends are more at risk of… Continue

Added by Dave Roberts on September 2, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

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

Added by Dave Roberts on September 1, 2009 at 10:15pm — No Comments

Dave Roberts Good Leaflets - What would you recommend?

As part of our bus ministry, we would like to have leaflets available for YOUNG PEOPLE to take away with them that would have a strong Christian ethos (not necessarily “Christian”). Leaflets would be on bullying, sexual health, alcohol, drugs, parental separation to name a few. Would you be able to help us find a supplier? I have tried doing a Google search, but with little success so far. I would appreciate any help you could offer. Should you wish to find out more about our project you can

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Added by Dave Roberts on August 28, 2009 at 10:04am — 1 Comment

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

Added by Dave Roberts on August 14, 2009 at 5:53am — No Comments

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

Added by Dave Roberts on August 14, 2009 at 5:50am — No Comments

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 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

Added by Dave Roberts on August 3, 2009 at 9:32am — No Comments

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

Added by Dave Roberts on July 22, 2009 at 10:44am — No Comments

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