Jodie McNeill lives in Sydney, Australia, and is the Executive Director of Youthworks Outdoors.
Rathane Rd, Royal National Park, NSW Australia
PO Box 705 Sutherland NSW 1499 Australia
jodie@jodiemcneill.com
Phone: +61 2 8525 3101
I have found, especially through my youth ministry experience, that it is well worth the investment in time to help a group get to know each other at the start of a session or event. Whether it’s a youth group evening, or a leader’s training event, it’s worth making the time to have a ‘mixer’.
Read my latest sydneyanglicans.net article to see three mixers I’ve done to death, but still work just fine.
I experienced one of the greatest blessings of my youth ministry last week, twenty years after I started leading my first youth Bible study.
Read my latest Sydney Anglicans article at http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/modernministry/the_surprise_blessings_of_ministry/ to find out why Jesus was so right when he said that it is more blessed to give than receive.
There are few times when I pray with my eyes open. You’ll be pleased to know that driving is one of them.
Yet, last year I prayed with my eyes open in a totally different context.
Read why and how in my latest blog at sydneyanglicans.net and join in the discussion.
One of the greatest challenges in youth ministry is making connections – between younger people and older leaders, school students and local churches, and most of all, between believers and unbelievers. Camps are a venue that can achieve all three.
Read more in my monthly article at your.sydneyanglicans.net.
It is difficult to argue with C. S. Lewis’ famous sentiment that “pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world”. But what do you do when your nation is characterized by health and prosperity? How can God’s message be heard above the deafening sound of materialism?
Read the answer in the full article at your.sydneyanglicans.net.
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