'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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on November 5, 2009 at 9:18am —
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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…
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 2:59pm —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on November 4, 2009 at 2:24pm —
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 19, 2009 at 1:18pm —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 10:00am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:56am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:50am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:30am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 13, 2009 at 9:24am —
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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.…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 12, 2009 at 9:01am —
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Here is God creating woman. You'll find this and many other Biblical stories at the
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 9, 2009 at 2:38pm —
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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
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:51am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:21am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 6, 2009 at 6:00am —
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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…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 2, 2009 at 7:15pm —
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Blythe Toll offers her critique of the Twilight Saga, a series of books that have captivated the hearts and minds of teens and adults, female and male alike. She picks out some themes that resonate with Christian theology and highlights points to discuss with young people.
I have a confession to make. I have read all four of the Twilight Saga books and seen the first movie twice. But I have another confession to make; I don’t like Twilight. I apologise to all those fans out there but sci…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 2, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Lots of us have been doing harvest assemblies this week in our primary and secondary schools. Here’s one I came across that shows a different approach to a harvest assembly. It’s designed for KS1 and KS2 (P1-P7 in Scotland) by Spinnaker and takes a refreshing look at harvest.
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 2, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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High public spending in the UK on child welfare and education is failing to deliver results, an international comparative study warns today.
The report, by the Paris-based international Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), points out that Britain, although moderately well placed in the rankings, has relatively high rates of teenage pregnancy, drunkenness and young people not in education, employment or training (neets).
The survey, entitled Doing Better for Children, s…
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Added by Dave Roberts on October 1, 2009 at 6:29am —
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