FAST GAME
Sharing Stories and Experiences
Monday, 24 March 2014
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Does Christianity have a future?
The BBC thing is going out on BBC1 this Sunday at 10.25pm Called Does Christianity have a future - it seems it is quite a different programme from the one they described about the beliefs and values of Gen Y so i haven't a clue what we will look like in the edit. A link to a promo is here
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Meet Them Where They're At
Just to let you know that you can now download Meet Them Where they're At on kindle. You don't need a kindle to read it but can access kindle from most platforms, computers and smart phones. At the moment you can purchase via kindle for £20 less than you can get the book second hand on amazon.
Click HERE for the link
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Creating new forms of church
The BBC were filming Streetspace/Church on the edge yesterday. The programme is due to go out on Easter week probably Easter Sunday. The shift had changed from Gen Y and it is now presented by Ann Widecombe (wish they had told me that before!) and is a follow up to the series she did last year but looking at the future of Christianity. This was was interesting and slightly problematic as they used more christian language than I would ever use, as I talk about spirituality a lot rather than christian words which can be loaded. So they asked some the young people what they thought when I when I told them I was a christian, (which I don’t think I ever have in that way) but I explain the project is about personal social and spiritual development before we get to stage 5 with groups. So it will be interesting to see the results.
As well as filming the skate park and interviews they filmed M and M’s and we used the new version of the Fast Game with three groups running at the same time, which worked brilliantly. We worked through the prodigal son and young people shared some really deep issues about difficulties with father figures particularly. It was really interesting to watch the yp share some really heart felt stuff openly but when it came to miming a bit from the story to look around and check they weren’t being filmed first.
At the end of the game you have a choose an action to put into practice based on the theme, and one yp had “someone in the room” so having identified the theme as acceptance he got up and walked down the room to give another lad (the one who gets on everyones nerves) a hug, it was a classic God moment, as he received the hug with a tear in his eye. The fact I never see the lads do anything so demonstrative was surprise enough but the act was courageous and real and blew me away, So I don’t really care about what the camera puts out in the edit, as it was worth it.