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This group blog features updates from our "champions" who are promoting resources and best practices in the various areas that represent the top priority ministries of SIM.

"Don't Tell Me, but Please Tell Me"

20 November 2009 — There are many strange paradoxes about youth culture around the world and one of them is very confusing for adults and youth workers.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Engaging with Muslim People Groups

27 October 2009 — Every fifth person in the world is from an Islamic background. Islam is the second largest religion in the world—only Christianity has more adherents.
Filed under: Muslim Ministries

Youth Training in Zambia

30 September 2009 — I have just come back from two weeks in Zambia where I travelled around various parts of the country and met youth leaders and pastors.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

HIV & AIDS and Children

14 September 2009 — In a recent visit to Zambia I was reminded of the freedom, personal respect, and resilience that comes when children and young people understand deeply that they are special and valuable.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

The Issue of Sex

21 August 2009 — Sean tackles the issue of sex in youth culture—particularly how we deal with it within Christian youth ministry.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Feeling Safe?

29 July 2009 — Keeping us safe has become a global business, with products ranging from security alarms and rapid response teams to face masks and capsicum spray.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

CrucialMoments Regional Gathering

20 July 2009 — Insights into the SIM "CrucialMoments" Regional Gathering held in Lima, Peru.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

Youth Identity in Technology 2

8 July 2009 — I guess many of you have been following the news items about the elections in Iran. I think this is a very pivotal election but I am also interested in the impact young people and technology is having on the issues surrounding the election.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Youth Identity in Technology

19 June 2009 — In the wider world, technology is changing people's lives and the way they communicate, but these impacts are more extreme in the youth culture.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Global Children's Forum

10 June 2009 — Last month I had the privilege of participating in the Global Children’s Forum and representing SIM’s children’s ministries there.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

A Fulani Cattle-Herder ...

2 June 2009 — One morning at breakfast at the Global Leaders Gathering in Kenya recently, I sat across the table from Younoussa Djao (Director of the SIM West Africa Partnership Office).
Filed under: Discipleship and Mentoring

Economic Situation and Young People

20 May 2009 — I think we are all facing the realities of the struggling economic situation around the world.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Children's Ministry Trends

6 May 2009 — During the last month I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with many of SIM’s leaders and learn about what is going on in the different countries.
Filed under: Children's Ministries

How to Equip Youth Leaders

30 April 2009 — I have to admit that at the moment I am contemplating a number of big issue questions about how to develop effective youth ministry around the world.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Communicating to the Emerging Generation

16 April 2009 — I have been thinking about the way that young people receive and take on information. Often in Christian circles a lot of truth and understanding is done in a form of one person speaking or instructing a large group of people (one to many).
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults

Effective Coaching

7 April 2009 — Much has been written about mentoring and also about coaching with the two terms often being used interchangeably. The more I learn, I think I am seeing a distinction between these 2 words.
Filed under: Discipleship and Mentoring

AIDS: Rural Areas, Stigma, and VCT

30 March 2009 — Israel Ndlovu, of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, contributes the following out of the experiences of the ESSA Christian AIDS Program.
Filed under: HIV & AIDS Ministries

It's in the DNA

19 March 2009 — There is not a people group anywhere in the world that does not have the capacity to become a missionary sending force.
Filed under: New Initiatives in Missions

Children's Ministry Cross-Culturally: Potted Plant or Seed?

20 February 2009 — Are we sometimes guilty of giving people "potted plants"—fully-developed programs which make sense to us, are aesthetically pleasing to us, and which have worked for us in our settings? Do they always "fit" in other settings?
Filed under: Children's Ministries

Why Young People Choose Christianity

20 February 2009 — Recently I have been reading a few articles about what actually brings young people into a relationships with Jesus Christ. We all know that a lot of youth ministry revolves around programmes.
Filed under: Youth and Young Adults
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