Just prayed to a God I don’t believe in

The Script – Break Even
The lyrics of this song have came to mind many times in recent months, one line in particular actually : “Just prayed to a God that I don’t believe in”.Kinda got me thinking abit about prayer, and our approach to it, and societies opinion about prayer and God I guess.  As [...]

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Long time no post – a long overdue update

Well it’s been a while since I updated this thing, facebook and twitter are updated abit more frequently, but this blog has become abit of a barren land.  Since i’m on a day off work, thought i’d jot down a few thoughts here for anyone who’s interested.2009 has started as hectic as 2008 finished, but [...]

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Christmas Reflection – Silent Night

Silent Night : Foy Vance and Duke Special

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Stop, Pause, Reflect

Well it’s been a while since I last updated the old blog, monthly postings of late as life’s got busy again.  Really looking forward to abit of a break this christmas time, youthwork finishing for a few weeks after Carol singing tonight, and life in general slowing down God willing over this Christmas period.
Things recently [...]

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Top 10 Tips

Checkout Dingers blog for some great posts about his Top 10 tips for Youth Leaders, alot of food for thought, and stuff I’ve been pondering over for some years now and guess will continue to do so.  The attitude that if we’re getting kids along to activities, then we’re doing OK just doesn’t cut it [...]

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Oasis @ Odyssey

At the oosis concert at the odyssey last night, amazing concert, so many top tunes by a band that are still producing quality music, if you haven’t bought it yet, check out their new album Dig Out Your Soul…

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Back to Blog

Well it’s been about a month since my last post, thought i’d better return again to the barren land of blog and give a quick update.  Life’s been busy of late, Get A Life mission has now been and gone, a great week which really drew the church together and was well received in the [...]

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Back to Busy

Has felt like it’s never been anything but busy this past while, but youthwork has all kicked back into gear again, and each week flies into the other with increasing frequency.  I’m also doing a night class for work for the next 2 years which is gonna make life somewhat more hectic, but its all [...]

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Upcoming Mission

Have been busy these past months planning and preparing events and literature for our forthcoming getalife mission.
As the weeks roll on, i’m increasingly aware that what we’ve been
working towards for the past year and more is going to be upon us very
soon.  I’m also aware of how important the follow up, and integration
will be for [...]

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Youth Ministry Summer School

This Thursday sees me heading off again to the Youth Ministry Summer School at Greenmount. It’s a great opportunity to get resourced, inspired, taught, connected and encouraged. I’ve blogged about it before, and look forward to the teaching provided this year by Kenda Creasy Dean and Marv Penner (details here), and hope to [...]

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