Youth ministry was not a significant component of my training. As I commented on the blog where I saw this, basically, student ministers on field appointment were usually assigned to the youth group. This was where they discovered that they were not ‘called’ to minister to youth. The ministers who assigned them to youth group …
Having prayed and breakfasted with some of my pastoral colleagues here in Mount Gambier this morning, I found out that some of them were unaware of the weekend announcement of extended funding for the National School Chaplaincy Scheme. Though the details are not clear just yet, 42 million dollars in additional funding was pledged by …
Stuff Christians Like is a great high concept site that has the potential for both fun and worthwhile insight. It’s based on the more famous Stuff White People Like. One example is the linked post: Youth group rules. (Posted using ShareThis Stuff.) Even though I’m too old, they still let me run around with the …
One of the things I do is chair the local Schools Ministry Group. Our responsibility is to be the official employer of our local Christian Pastoral Support Workers (formerly called School Chaplains in South Australia, but still called that in other States). In Mount Gambier and District we have twelve positions available in eleven local …
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