The Effective Ministry Podcast

Following on from last episode, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo sits down with Tim Beilharz to discuss why church history is relevant for those in children's and youth ministry. Questions discussed include: Why is history important in an age of expressive individualism?  What are some of the major events in church history that shape our present experience?  Should we tear down the statues of problematic people? ...

From one of Youthworks College's Theology Think Tanks from 2022, Dr Ruth Lukabyo shares her research on the early Sunday School movement in Australia. While looking back at the why and how of these early Children's Ministries in the European settlement of Sydney, Ruth asked us to consider the why and how of our ministries today. Are Sunday Schools and Kids' Churches places of mission, discipleship...

In this episode, Tim Beilharz talks with Wandering Bookseller Karl Grice about Christian Fiction. Links to all the books we talk about are below. Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and find out how Youthworks can help you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your local church. We'd love to hear from you. Send your thoughts, comments, suggestions a...

In this episodes, Youthworks College Principal Mike Dicker chats with Al James (Youthworks MST), Emma Collett (Church Hill Anglican) and Lauren Dewhurst (Christ Church, St Ives) to discuss this year's upcoming House Conference papers on the Old Testament Wisdom Literature. House Conference is a chance for youth and children's ministry worker to gather together, think deeply about biblical and theo...

In this episodes, Tim and Al sit down with youth minister and author Mike Snowdon to talk about his book A New Freedom: How God's Word Equips You For Life. Mike shares how the book is designed to help teenagers think through their world from a biblical perspective, why Christian ethical thinking is like kitesurfing, and then gives one worked example from the book on how to think Christianly about...

In this episodes, Tim Beilharz goes from host to guest as we share a recent episode from Moore Theological College's Centre for Christian Living podcast. Tim sat down with Dan Wu to chat about children's, family and intergenerational ministry and how the local church can equip it's members to think carefully and effectively about ministry to our youngest brothers and sisters in the church. Click o...

In our fourth and final episode of our Intergenerational Ministry mini-series Tim Beilharz sits down with Tim Adams, Families Minister at Macquarie Anglican Church to discuss the purpose and practicalities of intergenerational ministry. Tim Adams describes the importance of different generations sharing meaningfully together, why this is good for each generation and good for the church, and what t...

In our third episode of our Intergenerational Ministry mini-series Tim Beilharz and Kate Haggar have a follow up Q&A conversation with Stuart Crawshaw (Senior Pastor, Soul Revival Church) about his Shock Absorber presentation at last episode's Intergenerational Roundtable. Questions include: What's the difference between intergenerational ministry in a small or large church? What is the role o...

In our second episode of our Intergenerational MInistry mini-series we share the presentations from Youthworks bi-annual Intergenerational Roundtable conference from September 2021. Chris Edwards (Anglican Bishop, North Sydney) presents the theological foundations for our local churches being families where all are welcome, encouraged and engaged in building one another up. Stuart Crawshaw (Senior...

What is intergenerational ministry? Is it the latest buzz word for youth and children's ministry? Is it simply noticing that there are babies, teenagers, the middle aged and senior saints in your church over a weekend? In this first of a four episode mini-series, Al James chats with Tim Beilharz about the what, why and how of intergenerational ministry. Stay tuned in future episodes for a further...

Prayer is one of the means of grace that God gives to his people to express faith and commune with God. Continuing on from last week's episode, this week Josh Ord (Youth Minister, Hoxton Park Anglican Church) joins Al James to talk about how to engage teenagers to prayer, both in the church and within their households. Click on through to discover more from Youthworks Ministry Support Team and fin...

Prayer is one of the means of grace that God gives to his people to express faith and commune with God. Annemarie Rivers (Children's Ministry Advisor, Youthworks) joins Tim Beilharz to talk about how children's ministry leaders and families can help children learn the meaning and value of prayer as well as sharing tips on how to help children engage in prayer. Click on through to discover more fro...

Al James and Tim Beilharz bring you an update on the Youthworks podcast. We're retiring 'Discipleship Under The Crown' and relaunching as 'The Effective Ministry Podcast'. Our goal is to have conversations with local ministry leaders, as well as discussions with leading ministry experts, all for the purpose of helping you have an effective youth and children's ministry in your church. Click on thr...

Lockdown 2.0 isn't as big a shock. We've been here before. So what do we need to keep in mind to keep discipleship front and centre in Youth and Children's ministry while we can't meet face to face... again. I'm joined by Tim Beilharz (tim.beilharz@youthworks.net) and Kate Haggar (kate.haggar@youthworks.net) to collect our thoughts for ministry in this phase of the pandemic. If you'd like to speak...

Although Covid caused the first pause in SRE (Scripture) classes in our state’s history, SRE is as strong as ever. I’ve invited Jenn Phillips, Youthworks High School SRE advisor to share the long and short of schools ministry. Nothing says long better than Jenn’s chat with Cameron Hyslop, who has been teaching SRE in his local schools for over 30 years. But stay turned for the short: practical tip...

Mike Dicker - Dean of Students at Youthworks College hosts a conversation with Emma Collet and Al James about the papers being presented at HOUSE Conference on 10-12 May 2021. HOUSE Conference is happening about theological reflection for best practice in youth and children's ministry within a community of youth and children's ministers. In 2021 we're exploring freedom, identity and how we can dis...

Part 2 Faculty members of Youthworks College in Sydney, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo and Mike Dicker, join us to talk about suffering: What is it? What is God doing? How might God use suffering? How might young people respond in different ways and what can we do practically to engage with and disciple young people through suffering? Get in touch with Ruth or Mike: ruth.lukabyo@youthworks.net, mike.dicker@yout...

Part 1 Faculty members of Youthworks College in Sydney, Dr. Ruth Lukabyo and Mike Dicker, join us to talk about suffering: What is it? What is God doing? How might God use suffering? How might young people respond in different ways and what can we do practically to engage with and disciple young people through suffering? Get in touch with Ruth or Mike: ruth.lukabyo@youthworks.net, mike.dicker@yout...

Everything Changed | Nothing Changed - Drawing a line between purpose and practice in pandemics (and other times). Lauren and Grant Van der Merwe join us to talk about the connection between vision/purpose/principles and the practices of youth ministry in situations where you can't just do the normal thing and how that keeps your ministry resilient for uncertain times. Get in touch with Lauren or...

Matt Bartlett joins us to talk about resilient leaders. Matt has a wealth of youth ministry experience and is a Youth Ministry Advisor with Youthworks He talks about the one thing that youth leadership must focus on in the uncertainty of the current moment, the threats to that focus and how to maintain that focus for the sake discipleship in youth ministry. Get in touch with Matt:  matt.bartlett@y...

Chair of the Sydney Diocese Covid-19 Taskforce and Anglican Bishop of Sydney's Western Region shares reflections on Covid and encouragements for people in Youth Ministry to lead for endurance as they keep discipleship front and centre in an uncertain world. Get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net For more COVID-19 resources: youthworks.net/ To stay up to date with Youthworks: facebook.com/yo...

Miki Sinfield from Richmond Anglican Church returns to chat about how trainee leadership/junior leadership/equipping young people for ministry helped her youth in crisis, why they're still prioritising it in crisis, and how it will help after crisis. For and article on helping your young people to keep serving: https://youthworks.net/articles/how-to-encourage-your-youth-to-keep-serving Get in touc...

After a period of intense focus of facilitating ministry through change and disruption, the challenge is to restore the balance back to the ministry of people and relationships.  There will always be another change to endure and another time to focus on logistics, admin, programming and tech. Reflecting on our recent experience helps us prepare for  Miki Sinfield from Richmond Anglican Church shar...

Today we're joined by Josh Wilson from Life Anglican Church, Quakers Hill. Just as a torch shows us the things we can't see in the dark, Covid-19 can show us some things we may not have seen or realised before about our ministry or our young people. We talk with Josh about what Covid has shown to the youth ministry at Quakers Hill and reflect on how they might intentionally take that information i...

Today we're joined by Jono Ward from Holy Trinity Anglican in Wentworth Falls.  He talks about why the youth ministry is not putting a pause on growing relationships and what they're doing to make sure they've made ground by the time they're meeting face to face again. Get in touch with Jono at jono@holytrinityanglican.org.au To get in touch with us: al.james@youthworks.net For more COVID-19 resou...