Session plans

Planning a session with your young people? Check out the resources below:

Lockdown resources

To support young people to stay engaged and feel valued during the period of Covid-19 restrictions, we have developed a new resource – sample notes pages for young people. These can be shared with families in advance of a Sunday service, therefore used by young people continuing to take part in church from their homes, or printed out at home and brought along to a service. Samples can be downloaded below:

Church notes
Parish notes
Service notes

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Faith, Hope and Love can be used in a series of three or as stand-alone sessions. Everything within the sessions is optional to allow for choice for what would work best for your group.

Faith Hope Love

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Life in Rooms session is a stand alone session.

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Here you can down load four sessions which can be used together considering What the Bible says about…..
Being good; Happiness; Identity; Injustice; Church

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Connor Youth Prayer Journal Ideas

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Parent & Youth Event Resources – ideas to put into practice when thinking about linking in parents/guardians with your youth programme.

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Shaken Leaders’ Guide is a youth leaders resource to accompany the Shaken resource, to access this please contact Christina Baillie directly on christinabaillie@connordiocese.org.

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The Story of the Bible (Leaders’ Resource)

The Story of The Bible_ Leader Resource Part 1
The Story of The Bible_ Leader Resource Part 2

This is a resource with 12 sessions to provide a background and understanding to the overarching story through the Bible to help young people to understand and contextualise scripture.

Session 1 – Introduction
Session 2 – Law and DisOrder?
Session 3 – An Israelite History
Session 4 – Poetic License
Session 5 – Prophets: major key?
Session 6 – Prophets: minor key?
Session 7 – Life and Times of Jesus
Session 8 – A Church History
Session 9 -Dear Church, from Paul
Session 10 – Dear you, from Paul
Session 11 – Dear all, from me
Session 12 – All Together Now

The resource will provide a range of optional activities and teaching tools for each session. Please tailor this to suit your group and the young people attending. Many of the ideas will be repeated or continued through the 12 week sessions including craft, scripture memorisation and discussion questions.

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Faith and Doubt are follow up resources for anyone who attended sessions at the Connor Takes the Castle weekend 2018, but can also be used by groups who did not attend as an introduction to exploring asking questions and doubt.

Faith & Doubt Resource Part 1

Faith & Doubt Resource Part 2

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Ripple Plus

(To be used alongside Ripple resources). These have been created for smaller groups who gather with both children and youth, for example a mixed age group during church. The resources here are a few ideas which could help the youth think more about the truths being taught to the children. It is not expected all the ideas should be used for each session but they are here as options.

Ripple+ Thankful&Faithful

Ripple+ Loving God, Loving Others

Ripple + Life of Moses

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