1. Children’s & Youth:
Media and the
Social Media

2. Media Adverts We see and hear hundreds of messages a day.
Peer pressure on young people to act in certain ways, e.g. Size 0 models
Music
Young people can easily remember huge chunks of pop songs – how do we apply that to scripture memorisation, for example?
Many of the videos on channels such as MTV are inappropriate and yet pre-watershed.

3. Social Media
Complex and ever-changing – you’ll never understand everything unless you’re a social media expert – don’t worry – use it sensibly.
is dead, web pages are dead – it’s all about text messages and social networks.
Negative views
Archbishop of Westminster was very critical of facebook for lowering the true value of friendship.
Why would young people come out to your youth ministry on a cold winter’s evening if they can stay in and hang out with mates on instant chat.
Exciting opportunities
A perfect mission field.

4. Twitter

5. Twitter tweets
3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
177 million Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
456 Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.

6. Twitter accounts & employees
572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.
Number of employees
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7. Christmas Story Telling

8. New ways of leading worship

9. Leading Teenagers through Our Sexualised Youth Culture
Love your young people
Teach & discuss God’s sexual standards
Talk about the many good reasons for waiting
Help them establish thought through views
Help your local schools develop good curriculum