Ali Campbell

hello mate, hope you are doing well!

Line Management and Supervision Training!

DATES CONFIRMED - 20th October or 6th November (7.30 - 9.00pm on Zoom).

Covering the essentials and some top tips for creating an environment where children's, youth and family ministers can thrive! Interested? Drop me an email - ali@theresource.org.uk

Mentoring Slots still available!

It can be really helpful having an objective external sounding board - and that is what I offer! Sometimes churches pay for the mentoring (always great when a church sees the value!), but I also have a cheaper rate if you need to pay for it yourself!

Interested?

Hello and welcome.

Three Tools for encouraging discussion and engagement with young people. Jesus had a youth group, we call them his disciples - let's use the tools Jesus used in our ministry with young people.

Three Tools for encouraging discussion and engagement with young people.
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Pick Up and Drop Off Be prayerful, be present, be patient

I'm sharing this not because I always got it right, but because it matters. Life happens, distractions are everywhere - but, aiming for this makes such a difference.

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Adding value to others in ministry | Ali Campbell | Substack Reflective practice for leadership, personal growth, balance in life and ministry and living with hope in a broken and unjust world. What are you passing on? Click to read Adding value to others in mi...

Hey, not posted for a while because . . . been getting going properly on substack! Do check out my articles there and why not subscribe :)

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When The Church Fails to Speak Out on Behalf of the Voiceless The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill is now here, and it's everything the green paper threatened. On the front page i...

This blog is full of truth & righteous anger about 'The Church's' silence on d!sability benefit cuts.

"D!sabled people are used in the argument against assisted dying, but we're not prayed for when we face losing what helps us to live!"

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Ha, thanks. You around later this year at NYMW?

oh no, what did I say?

pitting young people against their parents, still see this in youth ministry practice . . . also, youth practitioners being a bit 'sniffy' about kids ministry . . .

oh, the nonsense that still gets spouted!

This is one of my favorite not funny memes.

I am now :)

Oh wow, that's a bit bonkers . . . I'm assuming you have been paid properly though??!

Are you heading out to see it open??

This is amazing!

YouTube video by Roots for Churches S3E2 Behaviour & Trauma Informed Children's Ministry, with Lisa Campbell

I had a great time a few weeks ago chatting with the lovely Melanie Cave from Roots for Churches about all things Children's Ministry - How do we journey well with struggling children? What is challenging behaviour and why does it happen? What is trauma?
Have a watch:
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@alasdairlane.bsky.social thanks for the follow - and great first name, mine is same spelling - though I've been known as 'Ali' for about 30 years. Great to connect :)

The end of the Church of England A personal journey through doubt and belief in the Church of England, after a conversation with a former vicar.

Argh! What is said at the end of the first paragraph of this article about the beliefs of senior leaders in the Church of England (I can't read the rest behind a paywall) just ISN'T TRUE.

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'I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.' #quotes #GKChesterton
I love that, 'gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder'.

'I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.' #quotes #GKChesterton
I love that, 'gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder'.

So, I'm going to be sketching the covers of the books I read in 2025 - trying to get back in to drawing / sketching. First up, 'The Old Ways' by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social - luminous, fascinating, gob-smacking and just beautifully written.
#sketching

See you in 2025.

I write a newsletter for those in children's, youth and family ministry. Would you like to receive it? Drop me a message with your email address and I'll add you! #newsletter #ministry #kidmin #family #leadership #youthministry

Yes to this - for ALL ministers.

Two back to back long days, now broken down on way home! Really need to get back tonight (daughters 17th tomorrow) - do pray that RAC get here swiftly! Argh.

It is more fantasy than sci-fi, but also heavy on the allegory - I mean, lead characters name is ‘Ransom’. I read it young and ‘That Hideous Strength’ freaked me out!

Don’t, read the Cosmic Trilogy instead ;)