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The importance of Biblical Foundations for Life in Ministry

How to help your child through the exam season

Is there anything youthworkers, chaplains, schools workers families can do to help our young people negotiate this difficult time?

Easter Reflections from our CEO & Principal

I love Easter; I think I might love it more than Christmas. The excitement that builds for me during Holy week is palpable as I seek to focus on the risen Christ through prayer, reflection, repentance, and renewal. Easter gives us the precious gifts of reflecting upon the grace and power of God.

Growing Faith Foundation Research: A Taster of Findings

CYM is privileged to collaborate with a growing number of partners in promoting the development of ministry with children, young people, families and communities in different contexts. One such partnership is with the The Church of England’s Growing Faith Foundation.

Disappointed

Disappointment is not something we often talk about in youthwork. A recent request to write a grove book on the subject forced me to think about it for the first time in a realistic and honest way. I realised that in my own life I had experienced profound disappointment with myself, with others on my team, with the church, with young people and sadly with myself and God. Thinking about my experiences made me realise how close to losing everything I had come.

Research…really?

We are meant to be curious, inquisitive. It is how God made us – wanting to understand, to know - God, His works, His world, His purposes, His creation, His presence, His love, His eternal dance, His Church, His people, His kingdom more fully. We are all researchers.

What does a student get from doing a degree with CYM?

When I was a lad growing up in Glasgow, I was mentored in to youth ministry leadership through summer camps and volunteers in my local church. Faithful amateurs took me hill walking and canoeing, sat with my painful attempts to play in the church band and gave me mini-experiences of speaking up front, visiting the sick and planning bigger events.

Why study theology?

The word theology derives from two Greek words, theos, which means God, and logos, which means word or words. Put simply, therefore, theology means words about God and that makes every person a theologian because everyone has words to describe God. Even the person who says there is no God has a theology, they are using words to describe him.

Giving Tuesday: a reflection from the Global south

This Giving Tuesday, we reflect on what giving means in other cultures. Our Director of Partnerships and Development has been in India for the last three months, living in a community in Orissa, India. Their family are supporting the charity Love the One, so Will has been working remotely. We asked him some questions about around giving in such a diverse place as India.