Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
Sunday night’s youth group was themed around anger and the small group study turned out to be quite interesting. As Christians we tend to take 2 routes with anger. Firstly we take the ‘anger is wrong‘ approach and draw a line…then comes approach 2 in response to ‘didn’t Jesus get angry?‘ which comes in the [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Day 42: Panorama: Chocolate – The Bitter Truth
On March - 30 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
I heard from friends that the panorama on the 24th March had been on chocolate, it’s origins and Fairtrade so I thought I’d give it a watch (you can too here). I have to say having watched Panorama on Primark I expected something negative…and in fairness I was half right. The program aimed to show [...]
Day 41: Can’t we just have RATM again?
On March - 29 - 2010 5 COMMENTS
A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this [...]
Day 40: Palm Sunday
On March - 28 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
All over the world today is Palm Sunday and thousands of Christians everywhere will have received a Palm Cross and read Luke 19 where we read about Jesus instructing His disciples to go off and find a donkey and bring it back followed by Jesus riding on this donkey with people all around praising him [...]
Day 39: Mflow
On March - 27 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
A friend on twitter posted about a new programme called ‘mflow’ the other day wondering if it would be the next Spotify. I have since requested an invite to mflow and had a chance to preview it and whilst the reviews talk about it being a cross between Spotify and Twitter I seriously don’t think [...]
Day 38: In Context
On March - 26 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
As I mentioned on Wednesday yesterday I attended a day of lectures being run by Youth, Mission and Culture in Leeds on the subject of Gender. It was great to have the opportunity to spend sometime thinking in depth about a subject without it being linked to a course, essay or just being stuff that [...]
Day 37: Facebook Fun!
On March - 25 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
I’ve just returned from the gender day I mentioned yesterday and will blog on it properly tomorrow however today ‘The Sun’ has an article with some fun things from Facebook so I thought I’d share on and link you to the others…they’re vaguely amusing, although my favourite Facebook group is still ‘I hate it when [...]
Day 36: Gender Day
On March - 24 - 2010 2 COMMENTS
Tomorrow I’m heading up to Leeds for a day of lectures from Youth, Culture and Mission all themed on gender and youth work. It’ll be my first ‘lectures’ since leaving uni last May and I’m actually looking forward to it. I think it’ll be a really interesting opportunity to find out more about gender as [...]
Day 35: Wedding Planning
On March - 23 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Since Jo and myself started planning the wedding in August we’ve realised that actually it’s not that difficult to plan a wedding…there’s been a few difficulties but when it comes to the actual planning, idea collecting etc we’ve both realised that we tend to sing from the same metaphorical hymn sheet with both of us [...]
Day 34: Charity Shops!
On March - 22 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
On Friday I headed into Beverley to get a few bits…Beverley is about the same distance from me as Hull and much more relaxing to wander around and smaller. Whilst there I past a small bookshop called ‘Jacobs Well’ which is a charity bookshop with a small Christian bookshop attached to it. Whilst the Christian [...]
Day 33: Arty Me
On March - 21 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
I’m not a big fan of cultured stuff…sit me with a Shakespeare play or in front of the Mona Lisa and I’ll complain about the old fashioned language or say ‘right what’s next…’. When it comes to things arty I am not someone who appreciates fine art. However this does not mean I don’t like [...]
Day 32: Got No Soul
On March - 20 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Since starting lent I have not purchased a single thing from a supermarket however I have been in ASDA on one occasion! Today I needed to go to the Apple Store in Meadowhall and had some time to kill at the same time. This is all well and good but Meadowhall is one of my [...]
Day 31: Christian Agony Aunts
On March - 19 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
I’m personally not remotely a fan of the Christian sub-culture whereby we have a ‘Christian’ alternative for everything for example want some shoes? We have Jesus sandals…Like rock music? There’s a Christian band who sound just like your favourite band (just not as well produced and only very vaguely sound like them!) and want a [...]
Day 30: Post Secret
On March - 18 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Yesterday at Christian Union I used my Post Secret session (you can find it on my youth work website www.youthworkresource.com) which I wrote a couple of years ago. This session always seems to work well and be a fairly powerful session for encouraging young people to reflect on God’s love and His knowledge of them…as [...]
Day 29: Contemporary Music in Worship P.2
On March - 17 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Yesterday I began exploring the idea of contemporary music as worship. I complimented the song writing skills of Paramore, Five Iron Frenzy and Family Force 5, had a bit of a rant and posted some thoughts on where we’re at with worship in our churches and a lack of passion (does this lack of passion [...]