Year round youth ministry training and retreat opportunities for volunteer youth leaders, youth workers and clergy.
2008 EVENTS
Deeply Different | 4th June 2008
Deep in Prayer | 1st October 2008
Deeply Rooted | 5th November 2008
Into the Deep | 2nd - 4th December 2008
PAST EVENTS - FEEDBACK
11-12 SEPTEMBER 2007 - CELEBRATE SEX! - MOYALLON, PORTADOWN
VENUE FOOD SPEAKERS SUGGESTIONS Great, comfortable, relaxing and quiet - great place! Ah-mazing Stuffed full!! Really good, thorough, enjoyable, interactive Time goes way too quickly! No idea how to solve that one... All great! Excellent Niall was excellent! Wasn't too keen on girl talk Love for Life was ace Sharon well done - be encouraged it was a great seminar well organized well resourced and well run - Thanks Very good Very Good Excellent Brought subjects to very good relevance Cool J Very Good Great Speakers Well done thanks for opening up these issues Good location - easy to get to! Wonderful J Very honest/well presented/pitched well Copies of presentations/more handouts Easy access for most people Food great - really enjoyed it! Very good - particularly enjoyed David Shepherd setting us up with ‘Theology of Sex' So mush to think about and so much to apply to our ministry situations Thank you - was a great conference! All good! Wonderful Encouraging | informative More time for practical applications or applied theory Fantastic Fantastic What an education Would have loved to have heard more about theology - not just a couple of verses - but digging through God's word on sex and sexuality! Brilliant very relaxing and peaceful Unreal, totally, utterly amazing please use those people again Really good Niall and Dicky are awesome Just keep going you rock God Bless J Super! Great Very challenging, informative and encouraging! Great Unbelievably Good, best food I've ever had on a retreat!! Compliments to the Chef All superb! Niall's talk was refreshingly honest and his past experience added so much more depth to what he had to say Have it again and follow up to this one, to see how people have taken what they've learnt and put into practice Very comfortable and good location Beautiful - loads J A good mix of topics/inspirational and challenging Do it again! Great place; small, comfortable, cozy, good facilities Scrumptious - Indian! A wide variety for breakfast Educated, honest, open and passionate Have other conferences like this one on other issues too Very good, very comfortable Great! Very good mix of educated speakers Maybe more clarity in regards to boundaries (safe guarding trust) when being open with minors Lovely location, bedrooms really comfortable Fantastic! I'm a fan. Thanks sooo much Brilliant, well informative
27 - 29 MARCH 2007 - ADOLESCENCE: MIND MATTERS |
EVALUATION by Ricky Taylor -Youth Worker in Ballymacash Parish
What was the most positive aspect of MIND MATTERS?
My personal belief is that mind matters showed a positive way of thinking about our young peoples' minds and the way they are thinking. It also got people who where there - clergy and youth workers, thinking in different ways about youth suicides. It was so fantastic to see a lot of peoples' attitudes changing towards young people and their thoughts to suicide.
How could this event be advertised better to encourage more to attend?
Possibly the best way to advertise this would be by word of mouth, if you where going to run this again get the clergy who where there tell all there workers who come into contact with young people to come along. I feel that CIYD do a great job e-mailing but again I think that a big black stick wouldn't get people to come along to these events.
Which organisations would you like to be present that were not?
No I think that I was just right at those who where speaking, as more speakers may have confused a lot of the audience.
Was it helpful having workshops to attend? If so, which did you find most helpful?
Yes It's important to have these workshops to improve the working ability of the church within the youth.
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3 MARCH 2007 - SOURCE - CLOUGHJORDAN
This event was a very important one in the CIYD calendar this year. We worked hard to bring SOURCE into reality and by all accounts, it seems it was good to do so. Around 25 organisations were invited to take part in the event 13 of which committed to come. During the course of the day there were times to network with the people and organisations present and a number of discovery sessions including: Young People and Youth Culture, Uniting Reverence with Relevance (the marriage of tradition and innovation), Heart's and Minds (developing and investing in a volunteer team) and Along the Way (discipleship young people in the 21st century). All were received well, and we should host the event again in the Republic next year.
SOME COMMENTS RECEIVED:
WHAT WAS THE MOST POSITIVE ASPECT OF SOURCE?
That it even happened!! | Strengthening networks in the Republic of Ireland - about time!! | Discipleship session - meeting people! | Meeting up with people deeply committed to youth work in Ireland. | Meeting other youth workers and encouraging being encouraged, inspiring and being inspired by meeting them! | Workshops and sense of community!
HOW COULD THIS EVENT BE ADVERTISED BETTER?
Local papers | Interchurch newsletters | word of mouth | School newSletters | Internet
WHICH ORGANISATIONS WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PRESENT THAT WERE NOT?
Athletes in Action | OM Ireland| Worship Explosion | SportsQuest | Youth Initiatives | Crusaders | Oasis | CEF | Youth Alpha
WAS IT HELPFUL HAVING WORKSHOPS TO ATTEND? IF SO, WHICH DID YOU FIND MUST HELPFUL?
Discipleship workshop - excellent | Exodus worskshop - brilliant| Youth Leaders - Fantastic | please increase the time for workshops so we can go to more than one!!
17TH JANUARY 2007 - SWEATING BLOOD - 3ROCK DUBLIN
Sweating Blood - and for some of you that was only getting to Dublin. our day together was just great and and a BIG thank you to all of you who carved time out to join us in Dublin.
Andy Flannagan provided a place for us to meet our Father, to sense His presence around and within us. It was a good reminder of how we need to draw to Him, spend time with Him and that He loves us and is on the journey with us. What a comfort.
We hope and pray that you are continually finding His strength in all things, the wee things, the big things and the giant things.
