Youthblog posted this link to a teenagers report on technology as part of their work experience. Whilst i am sure the student was motivated which i guess from the fact that the placement was with Morgan Stanley, it make think about how little we expect from young people generally in terms of participation and leadership in youth work and church.
Rohr talks about how Jesus asked people to follow him 17 times but never once to worship him. For years I have wondered what it is to live your life as a life of worship. We get so tied up with the worship question. Imagine the church service where we simply ask the complex words follow Jesus
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I have been reading Richard Rohr on Simplicity
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and he discusses how community happens as people head in the same direction.
The concept of community has always been important to me since reading the early days of David Watson, Keith Green and many others where community living often seemed to be connected to significant moves of God. In my work I have often been at fault of trying to encourage community and in the process stifle it (something Rohr discusses). As I look back at times when I have moving in the same direction with others there has been a real sense of community but without the communal living sense. Still now even years later I know there still people dotted around the world (an extended community) who although I may not have seen in years I would be confident of seeking out if I needed help, I would have no qualms about turning up on their dorstep at 2am. This includes some of the young people who maybe would be seen as the receipents of mission, but were in effect co-creators of community. FYT has always been another part of this extended missional community as we follow the missio dei.
The direction we were heading together was always missional, and this sense of community extends to people who even though I was not working directly alongside were heading in a simular missional direction working on the other side of the country but who I would still count on. Before I was employed by FYt this was how they fitted, but in reality the relationship sense of community has not changed, I just see them more often.
For most of the times whilst I was in these extended missional communities I was in a church, but there isnt anyone from those friends I would be so confident of dropping in on drunk or in need. As I reflect I wonder if this because the churches never had a real missional DNA, (they had other priorities and diversity of directions to travel in) and was my community the by product of following the missio dei (heading in the same direction). Perhaps our extended missional community was church as it was intended to be?
Even now I have people around me who are following the missio dei and all the time new people are added into this extended missional community my hope is that they too may feel confident to drop in me unexpectedly or to ask for help in needed.
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CWDC is holding 11 regional consultations and an online consultation to give those who work with young people the opportunity to shape the next stages of a £25m programme. The programme, managed by the Children’s Workforce Network and led by CWDC, covers the young people’s workforce aspects of Aiming High for Young People*.
The programme aims to strengthen leadership and management through training programmes for up to 300 strategic leaders, 5,000 frontline managers and 150 emerging leaders; to build capacity in the third sector; and create a common platform of skills which includes the Youth Professional Status.
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Employers and others in the sector are being asked to get involved and help shape this training and development programme. To ensure everyone’s views are heard, CWDC has organised a series of consultation events over the next two months. These will be in:
Birmingham, Wednesday April 29
Leeds, Tuesday 5 May
Newcastle, Tuesday 12 May
Nottingham, Friday 15 May
Bolton, Tuesday 19 May
London, Thursday 21 May
Brighton, Tuesday 9 June
Cambridge, Friday 12 June
Taunton, Tuesday 16 June
Birmingham, Friday 19 June
London, Tuesday 23 June.
An agenda of the activities on the day of each consultation is available at
http://www.cwdcevents.org.uk/yps/programme.html
The online consultation opens on 29th April. It will be found at www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/yps-consultation
Keith Brumfitt, Director of Strategy at CWDC, said: “This programme is about building on the good work that the workforce already does to ensure it is better able to successfully deliver improved outcomes for young people. It is also about promoting greater cohesion and consistency in the way the workforce works with each other and with young people.
“We now want to fully involve everyone in the sector at all levels and listen to their views on how best to move forward with the programme.
“These consultations will be the ideal opportunity for people for those who work with young people to shape and be part of developing a world-class workforce which will meet the demands of the 21st century.”
Bookings can be made by calling 08456 120256 or by visiting
http://www.cwdcevents.org.uk/yps/
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