Becky catches up with Tony about his journey into ministry - becoming a Christian at 16 on a surprise trip to Spring Harvest, spending 6 months in Tanzania, studying with CYM, and more recently being called to plant a church in a new build estate. Hear amazing stories of God preparing the way and some nuggets of wisdom he learned in his years as a youth worker. Be encouraged.
Becky catches up with Dave to find out his journey into ministry and how God kept calling him back to children's ministry. Hear all about his 'many hats' including his role at Children Worldwide - hosting breakfasts and networks for kids leaders, and his role at Scripture Union equipping others to reach the 95% of kids and youth not engaged with church. Hear his top tips and find out what question he wanted to ask our host Becky.
Becky interviews Ben Jones, Founder of Missional Generation, a charity based up in Leeds that are focused on equipping young people to be influential for Jesus in every arena of life. They have several resources that use cutting edge technology to make this happen - including augmented reality, apps and coming soon a new AI tool for youth leaders to help plan sessions! Listen to Becky find out about Ben's youth work journey, and find out how Missional Gen's resources might be able to help you in your work with young people. Be inspired!
Becky interviews her sister who leads a church plant with her husband Paul. She talks about the family and all age focused activities they run, some of her own faith story and how she ended up going from Cabin Crew to ministry! Tune in for advice and inspiration from ordinary Christians doing great things.
Olly and Becky interview Sam Haiser from Austria who is in the UK studying to become a priest in the Church of England. He talks about a system he authored to train and equip spiritual fathers and mothers to mentor and disciple young people. It's more than a resource - it's a training programme and a way of life! He also talks about his Christian journey, becoming a youth worker, being mentored himself, the call to church leadership and unpacks the vision behind his huge passion of spiritual fathers and mothers.
Lara is an accountant and a mum of two boys - she was surprised and in denial when God inspired and challenged her to write a Christian book for kids.
But that was just the start! She is now self published and along with input from her boys, has created a whole series of beautiful engaging & durable Christian resources for children. And her main job is still an accountant!
Tune in for her story, & find out how God has encouraged her along the way.
I'm sure there will be something that will inspire you too!
OG cohosts Olly and Becky reunite for a special episode to catch up on what they've been up to lately, including National Youth Ministry Weekend, Vicar exams, Christmas stress, Becky's 40th Birthday, ages & stages & more.
Gemma heads up the Luton Youth Work Team in Luton, she tells us how she got into youth work, some of her ministry highlights and how growing up in Luton affects her young people and her youth work. Join us for an encouraging conversation which we hope will inspire your work with children and young people and your Christian faith journey.
Dan & Becky catch up about their gap year experience with the Message Trust and how it has impacted them since. Daniel shares how faith is his foundation for his vocation, the challenges of being a YouTuber and how he got roped into leading a youth group by his wife Kelly. Hear what inspires him about young people and what Becky would do if she had a large sum of money to invest in ministry! All this and more in this episode - tune in to hear the good stuff.
Becky interviews Mike from similar ministry supporting leaders that do youth/kids work. Would Becky rather fight a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses? What jobs would Mike and Becky do if they weren't involved in ministry roles? Mikes journey to doing what he does now. What area of youth/kids ministry is Mike passionate about and why? Whats been a highlight of his ministry? All this and more.
Join Becky as she interviews a familiar face from the podcast - Olly Shaw who has been absent from co hosting the last few episodes as he's been doing vicar training. Find out how he's been getting on - how he was called into it, best and worst bits and hear him ask Becky how she is transitioning from being a mum of a toddler and the founder and director of a charity.
Our latest podcast episode with the amazing Clive Latter. We both used to be youth workers in Luton over 10 years ago, organised and ran a bunch of town wide youth events together and served on a town centre youth detached team. He's currently a youth and children's worker in Worthing. Tune in to hear him share some of his journey and recent musings and learnings. Plus hear one of Becky's youth work fails! Hope it all encourages you in your faith or youth/kids work journey!
Jo White is a mum of 3 girls and leads the families ministry at Stopsley Baptist Church in Luton where she has been serving in her role for over 20 years. She talks about her ministry early years doing an internship with Luton Churches Education Trust before it became Youthscape, why she thinks engaging families in discipleship is important, why youth and kids work is essentially about pointing people to Jesus, do more young people like fruit these days? And words of wisdom on the importance of longevity and consistency to see God do awesome things with the seeds you sow. Tune in or miss out.
Becky chats to John Prockter, Director of Catalyst Youth Trust in Shropshire. John is a self professed story teller, author and leader of multiple schools work trusts. John shares some of his youth work journey, why he cares about dabbling In kids work too, and shares a quote from Ariana Grande! He also shares about his great new book Hikaru, which is a manga allegory of the Christian gospel designed to be used in schools (and youth groups)!
Becky catches up with Dave Boden, Executive Director at Grace Foundation. Hear how Dave has accidentally ended up in leadership positions more than once - including leading a youth camp of 200 youth and 30 volunteers at just age 19!
Grace Foundation partners with secondary schools and has Christian Ethos Workers in 12 secondary schools across the Midlands including Solihull, Coventry, Rushden and Milton Keynes. Find out why and how schools are accessible still to christians and what opportunities there are to get involved. And find out why Dave carries around a little dinosaur in his pocket everywhere he goes! Dave is also an author and chats briefly about his new book for young people ‘Like or Follow - what every teenager needs to decide about Jesus ’.
Becky catches up with John Good leader of Ocean Church in Poole, and chaplain of YMCA in Poole/Bournemouth. How does he help young people and families encounter the presence of God in the everyday and through being on and around the sea. Why does he think all age participation is important and why is our language important to engage with everyone. What statue would Becky get put up in Milton Keynes? And more youth, kids, family work musings.
Becky chats to Anna Hawken from BRF Parenting for Faith. Find out all about 'Chat & Catch' the art of engaging all ages in praying and listening for a response. How can we engage parents and carers in the bigger picture of young peoples faith development. Hear about Anna & Becky's messiest moments in youth/kids ministry and plenty of other thought provoking and inspiring snippets.
Becky chats to Sam Graham, youth worker at Buckingham Parish Church about his youth work journey. Listen to find out how he got from dropping out of college, to gap year intern, to paid youth worker. Also find out why he feels the parents are important to youth ministry and why he's passionate about youth outreach in his community. Also find out what type of pie both of them think they are!
Becky interviews Ben Green, Youth Adviser from Blackburn Diocese up in Lancashire. Ben shares about his Youthwork State of Mind podcast and instagram, why theres a youth centre in Luton named after his legendary late grandad Norman Green, having joined up youth visions and why we should get parents involved in our youth work. Becky gives two top tips for youth workers and shares what would be on the plate if youth work were a plate of biscuits!
Becky interviews Dan Randall who is Youth and Young Adults Director at Hope Together and is involved in youth work with his church. Listen to find out about his youth work journey, what he's learnt along the way and why there was someone elses fingernails in his jeans pockets!!
