Posts filed under ‘Culture’
Two Days in Kenya with ONE
Article written by Bryant Shannon for Relevant Magazine
Meet Bryant Shannon, a rising junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville and co-leader of one of the top
three schools in the ONE Campus Challenge [OCC]. He studies Biological Engineering and Public Health, and has volunteered in small communities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Nicaragua to help raise
awareness about extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, clean water, and respiratory illnesses attributable to open-air cooking. Eventually, he hopes to become a physician. While in Kenya, he looked specifically at “Challenges in
Kenyan Healthcare.”
While in Kenya, Bryant blogged for the OCC. Two of his entries—capturing what happened on the ground…
Rest of article here Two Days in Kenya with ONE
ht to our friends at Relevant Magazine
Google Map Your Soul
I have several friends who are traversing all over the globe at any given time. Their jet-setting has made me wonder how we decide to venture into the great unknown or grow roots in one place. Is our soul involved in navigating us to where we land? They say home is where the heart is, but what about the soul?
Find the location on Google Maps where your soul feels most at home. Then paste the link (don’t embed) from the top right corner and tell us why you chose this spot by leaving a comment.
ht to soulpancake
Transformers 2: Movie Review
Did you take kids from your youth group to see Transformers 2? Did you take them to be relevant or to teach them a lesson? Why? Brett Ullman’s video blog #46 has a specific call out to three groups of people regarding this movie. Thoughts!?!
What are you hearing?
Students and parents communicate so many messages to us as youth workers that we oftentimes feel overwhelmed with the content of what we are hearing. What can we do with all of these messages that we are hearing? Who do you have that cares for you? Mentors you? Refreshes your soul?
ht to our friends at Canadian Youth Workers Convention: www.cywc.com
New Summer Resource
ENGAGE: The Journal of Youth Culture
Topics: The Sad Reality of Sexual Abuse, Twilight: Sucking the Lifeblood out of teenagers?, What is the ‘success’ in parenting teens? with Dr. Paul Tripp, Resource Reviews, College Ministry, and much, much more…
You can also find a permanent link to this newsletter on the right hand side under BlogRoll
ht to our friends at Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU)
