Youthwork+ Podcast

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 Advisor 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 t...

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!!

Olly and Becky chat to Ruth youth worker at Urban Devotion Birmingham.

Olly and Becky discuss their money saving tips and ideas for reducing costs in youth and kids work to help us all with reduced budgets and the current cost of living crisis.

Olly & Becky discuss a listeners question of what to do with youth & kids if your church has no building and how to think creatively outside the box in terms of venue even if you do have a church building.

Olly and Becky Q&A part 4, answering your questions - some fun some serious including favourite flavour ice cream, hardest part of youth work jobs and go to coffee orders...is a frappuccino even proper coffee?!

Olly and Becky chat about what they think is important to thrive in youth and kids work roles and how we find an ideal balance.

Olly and Becky chat about tackling tough topics with youth.  Including some tips about environments to cultivate, how we can work with parents and how we can cover some of the tougher but vital content with young people.

Olly & Becky answer random and deep questions about their youth and kids ministry experience so far and about their lives in general. Do we involve youth/kids in decision making? Most Christians come to faith as young people. God transforms ordinary people to enable them to do extraordinary things.

Olly & Becky discuss how to deal best with uncertainty in kids & youth work, sharing their experience as well as hints and tips to deal with different problems and how to overcome them.

Olly & Becky discuss their experience and top tips for recruiting volunteers, keeping volunteers and helping them feel valued.  As well as sharing some of their own experience of being volunteers and how they thrived in their roles.

Becky & Olly discuss their thoughts on the key characteristics they think are important for youth and kids leaders, and give some tips on accessing more support to help you thrive....

Olly and Becky discuss the perils of measuring success by the numbers of people and activities and get to the root of perhaps true success, being obedient to what God has called us to do in our ministry.

Olly and Becky answer questions relating to their experience doing youth and kids work. Heart sinking youth work moments, what parts of youth work don't you enjoy? McDonalds or Burger King? Youth work or kids work!? Best youth work moment and more....

Olly and Becky talk about how to tackle bad behaviour, boundaries and rules with children and young people while still keeping grasp of love and forgiveness.

Olly and Becky chat about their own experiences of being on the edge of burnout.  How to recognise the signs and symptoms, tips for avoiding it and what do do if you feel you are burning out.

In a special episode Becky & Olly answer questions about their experience of being youth workers.

Olly and Becky chat about taking youth groups on summer camps, residentials, Christian festivals and weekends away and the importance of stopping to analyse your group to help choose what to do and where to go.  Hear their own experience about how pivotal camps and residentials can be.  Also hear the drawbacks including sick bugs and bad behaviour and the highlights of faith stretched and lives ch...

Olly and Becky discuss engaging youth in local mission in the community, peer evangelism and why we should be considering reaching more young people.

Olly and Becky chat about their experience of youth mission trips abroad, both going on them as teenagers and leading them as youth workers. Are they worth the effort and expense?

Becky and Olly discuss the transition out of Covid-19 lockdowns, their thoughts on new normal or back to normal, the opportunity of fresh starts and the importance of pausing and reflecting before moving on from anything.