Talking Youth Ministry - A Youthscape Podcast

Martin sits down with Youthscape's own Alex Drew (for the second time), as they discuss training, volunteers and how to best set up other members of our youth teams to win. Rachel and Martin bond over their dread of becoming a 'challenging volunteer' and they troubleshoot some of each other's difficult situations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin sits down with Ruth Jackson, former editor at Premier Youth and Children's Work magazine and current presenter and producer of Unbelievable? apologetics radio show and podcast. They discuss the relevance of apologetics in today's age and how you as a youth worker should respond to the challenging question of suffering.  Meanwhile, Rachel and Martin update us on the latest exploits with thei...

In this week's episode, Martin sits down to hear from Naomi Allen from Open Doors as they try and tackle a question that includes suffering and looks at doubt in the midst of leading young people. Rachel and Martin discuss the 'dark night of the soul' and Martin lets us know what strange request he received around a recent funeral. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin and Rachel kick off the new year with a new series where they delve into the tough questions of youth ministry. Sitting in the hot seat today is Matt Summerfield, author, church leader and chair of Youthscape's trustees. He shares stories from his time leading Urban Saints and Martin and Rachel share some of their 'Elephants in the Closet'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

In this final episode of the mini-series, Martin sits down with the Director of the Institute of Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, Megan DeWald. They discuss the Forum, IYM's event, as well as what it looks like to help build long-lasting faith in young people in the run up to the National Youth Ministry Weekend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin chats to Philip Jinadu, church leader of Woodlands Metro in Bristol and one of this year's National Youth Ministry Weekend contributors. They chat about long-term discipleship and look at how mentoring plays into that. Meanwhile, Rachel and Martin figure out who would win in an arm wrestle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin and Rachel delve into the world of evangelism and share some of their (more regrettable) stories from their youth. As we look toward the National Youth Ministry Weekend in November, Rachel sits down with one of our contributors, Daniel Eduardo from The Message and discuss what this year's theme means in the context of sharing our faith with young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

TW: Abuse and trauma Rachel and Martin sit down to chat to another of this years National Youth Ministry Weekend contributors: Amy Orr-Ewing. Amy shares the story of the Reboot event, and the vision to equip young people to address tough questions with their friends as well as some of the difficult season she's been through over the last few years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Rachel and Martin are back in the new academic year with the first episode of a mini-series building up to the National Youth Ministry Weekend in November. They chat to Youthscape's CEO and one of the speakers of this years conference, Chris Curtis about the story of Youthscape and how we ended up with the this year's theme: Stronger - growing faith in young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

ft Melinda Tankard Reist Rachel sits down with Australian author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for young people, Melinda Tankard Reist. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Meanwhile, Martin and Rachel take a look back at the 'Big Conversations' season and won...

ft Lahna Pottle  Martin and Rachel get hung up on a very green coat and sit down with Lahna Pottle, youth and young adults pastor from Shoebury & Thorpe Bay Baptist Church, to delve into young people's relationship with social media and the world of technology, as well as what our role as those who work with young people looks like to model healthy practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Martin and Rachel talk about Twizzle, octogenarians and sit down with Dr Lucie Shuker (from Youthscape's Centre for Research) and Dan Randall (from Hope Together) to chat about some new research all about peer-to-peer evangelism amongst young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rachel and Martin sit down once again to chat about how we navigate messy and murky world of money with young people. Rachel picks the brain of Shane Claiborne, author, activist and leading figure in the New Monastic movement to understand the role of young people in world changing movements.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin and Rachel are back from their mid-season break to chat about dynamic range, not missing bin day and most importantly, sitting down with LessWasteLaura to unpick how to have conversations with young people about the climate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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