Jodie McNeill lives in Albion Park, NSW, Australia, and is the Global Operations Manager for Gafcon Global.
Home: 26 Premier Drive, Albion Park NSW 2527 Australia. Email: jodie@jodiemcneill.com Phone: +61 425 222 338
It was almost impossible to keep the smile off Jemimah’s face as she prepared for her first day of school. She excitedly dressed herself in her new uniform, and headed off with her sister to begin her thirteen years of school education.
This is not the first year for Jemimah at Danebank School. She attended the Prep school last year for two days a week. But finally she will be able to satisfy the desire for learning that two days a week could never fill.
Over the past two weeks I have had the opportunity to train over 500 people in youth ministry. This occurred at KYLC (The Katoomba Youth Leadership Convention) and LIT (The Leaders in Training Camp).
The main training happened for the first-time KYLC delegates, who attended ‘Essentials of Youth Ministry’. This three-hour session was held over two afternoons, and provided both a theoretical foundation and practical steps in youth ministry.
In addition, I also taught the third-year KYLC delegates in the workshop ‘Dealing with Trouble’, as well as conducting a seminar for the main KYLC leaders.
At LIT I ran a one-hour session on youth ministry essentials for the high-school aged campers, as well as providing feedback on youth activities.
Over the past week I’ve spent five days at the Katoomba Youth Leadership Conference (KYLC). This event provides excellent training for people in ministry and Bible teaching.
Mandy and I led a strand group, which consists of around ten students who receive personal training in how to prepare a Bible study. Ours was for third-time delegates, and covered Systematic Theology.
In addition, I ran four afternoon workshops, each of an hour and half’s duration. On Monday and Tuesday I took the 200 Stand One students through a 3 hour introduction to youth ministry. On Wednesday I conducted a session for strand leaders explaining the course changes. Finally on Thursday I took some of the Strand Three students through the topic ‘dealing with trouble’.
Next week I will be repeating the four afternoon sessions for the second week group.
If you want to find out more about this great conference visit www.kcc.org.au/kylc.
Today Liana and twelve of her friends had a great time together celebrating her sixth birthday.
After a great meal of pizza and garlic bread, the group played lots of games including an egg and spoon race, a three-legged race, pass the parcel, treasure hunt and the chocolate game.
The highlights for Liana were the games and the presents, as well as the tasty food. Her funniest moment was chocolate game: “We had to dress up with a tutu and a crown and throw the dice and try to make it six, then try to eat chocolate with a knife and fork!”
Liana officially turns six on the 15th of January.
Read the letter (and others) here http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437407148.html. You might also like to see the letters on the following day to see the ongoing debate http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/09/1073437470905.html. The original article can be found at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/06/1073268031323.html.
