OG cohosts Olly and Becky reunite for a special episode to catch up on what they've been up to lately, including National Youth Ministry Weekend, Vicar exams, Christmas stress, Becky's 40th Birthday, ages & stages & more.

Gemma heads up the Luton Youth Work Team in Luton, she tells us how she got into youth work, some of her ministry highlights and how growing up in Luton affects her young people and her youth work. Join us for an encouraging conversation which we hope will inspire your work with children and young people and your Christian faith journey.…

Dan & Becky catch up about their gap year experience with the Message Trust and how it has impacted them since. Daniel shares how faith is his foundation for his vocation, the challenges of being a YouTuber and how he got roped into leading a youth group by his wife Kelly. Hear what inspires him about young people and what Becky would do if she had…

Becky interviews Mike from similar ministry supporting leaders that do youth/kids work. Would Becky rather fight a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses? What jobs would Mike and Becky do if they weren't involved in ministry roles? Mikes journey to doing what he does now. What area of youth/kids ministry is Mike passionate about and why? Whats …

Join Becky as she interviews a familiar face from the podcast - Olly Shaw who has been absent from co hosting the last few episodes as he's been doing vicar training. Find out how he's been getting on - how he was called into it, best and worst bits and hear him ask Becky how she is transitioning from being a mum of a toddler and the founder and di…

Our latest podcast episode with the amazing Clive Latter. We both used to be youth workers in Luton over 10 years ago, organised and ran a bunch of town wide youth events together and served on a town centre youth detached team. He's currently a youth and children's worker in Worthing. Tune in to hear him share some of his journey and recent musing…

Jo White is a mum of 3 girls and leads the families ministry at Stopsley Baptist Church in Luton where she has been serving in her role for over 20 years. She talks about her ministry early years doing an internship with Luton Churches Education Trust before it became Youthscape, why she thinks engaging families in discipleship is important, why yo…

Becky chats to John Prockter, Director of Catalyst Youth Trust in Shropshire. John is a self professed story teller, author and leader of multiple schools work trusts. John shares some of his youth work journey, why he cares about dabbling In kids work too, and shares a quote from Ariana Grande! He also shares about his great new book Hikaru, which…

Becky catches up with Dave Boden, Executive Director at Grace Foundation. Hear how Dave has accidentally ended up in leadership positions more than once - including leading a youth camp of 200 youth and 30 volunteers at just age 19! Grace Foundation partners with secondary schools and has Christian Ethos Workers in 12 secondary schools across the M…

Becky catches up with John Good leader of Ocean Church in Poole, and chaplain of YMCA in Poole/Bournemouth. How does he help young people and families encounter the presence of God in the everyday and through being on and around the sea. Why does he think all age participation is important and why is our language important to engage with everyone. …

Becky chats to Anna Hawken from BRF Parenting for Faith. Find out all about 'Chat & Catch' the art of engaging all ages in praying and listening for a response. How can we engage parents and carers in the bigger picture of young peoples faith development. Hear about Anna & Becky's messiest moments in youth/kids ministry and plenty of other thought …

Becky chats to Sam Graham, youth worker at Buckingham Parish Church about his youth work journey. Listen to find out how he got from dropping out of college, to gap year intern, to paid youth worker. Also find out why he feels the parents are important to youth ministry and why he's passionate about youth outreach in his community. Also find out wh…

Becky interviews Ben Green, Youth Adviser from Blackburn Diocese up in Lancashire. Ben shares about his Youthwork State of Mind podcast and instagram, why theres a youth centre in Luton named after his legendary late grandad Norman Green, having joined up youth visions and why we should get parents involved in our youth work. Becky gives two top ti…

Becky interviews Dan Randall who is Youth and Young Adults Director at Hope Together and is involved in youth work with his church. Listen to find out about his youth work journey, what he's learnt along the way and why there was someone elses fingernails in his jeans pockets!!

Olly and Becky chat to Ruth youth worker at Urban Devotion Birmingham.

Olly and Becky discuss their money saving tips and ideas for reducing costs in youth and kids work to help us all with reduced budgets and the current cost of living crisis.

Olly & Becky discuss a listeners question of what to do with youth & kids if your church has no building and how to think creatively outside the box in terms of venue even if you do have a church building.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky Q&A part 4, answering your questions - some fun some serious including favourite flavour ice cream, hardest part of youth work jobs and go to coffee orders...is a frappuccino even proper coffee?!Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky chat about what they think is important to thrive in youth and kids work roles and how we find an ideal balance.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky chat about tackling tough topics with youth. Including some tips about environments to cultivate, how we can work with parents and how we can cover some of the tougher but vital content with young people.Von Youthwork+

Olly & Becky answer random and deep questions about their youth and kids ministry experience so far and about their lives in general. Do we involve youth/kids in decision making? Most Christians come to faith as young people. God transforms ordinary people to enable them to do extraordinary things.Von Youthwork+

Olly & Becky discuss how to deal best with uncertainty in kids & youth work, sharing their experience as well as hints and tips to deal with different problems and how to overcome them.Von Youthwork+

Olly & Becky discuss their experience and top tips for recruiting volunteers, keeping volunteers and helping them feel valued. As well as sharing some of their own experience of being volunteers and how they thrived in their roles.Von Youthwork+

Becky & Olly discuss their thoughts on the key characteristics they think are important for youth and kids leaders, and give some tips on accessing more support to help you thrive....Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky discuss the perils of measuring success by the numbers of people and activities and get to the root of perhaps true success, being obedient to what God has called us to do in our ministry.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky answer questions relating to their experience doing youth and kids work. Heart sinking youth work moments, what parts of youth work don't you enjoy? McDonalds or Burger King? Youth work or kids work!? Best youth work moment and more....Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky talk about how to tackle bad behaviour, boundaries and rules with children and young people while still keeping grasp of love and forgiveness.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky chat about their own experiences of being on the edge of burnout. How to recognise the signs and symptoms, tips for avoiding it and what do do if you feel you are burning out.Von Youthwork+

In a special episode Becky & Olly answer questions about their experience of being youth workers.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky chat about taking youth groups on summer camps, residentials, Christian festivals and weekends away and the importance of stopping to analyse your group to help choose what to do and where to go. Hear their own experience about how pivotal camps and residentials can be. Also hear the drawbacks including sick bugs and bad behaviour an…

Olly and Becky discuss engaging youth in local mission in the community, peer evangelism and why we should be considering reaching more young people.Von Youthwork+

Olly and Becky chat about their experience of youth mission trips abroad, both going on them as teenagers and leading them as youth workers. Are they worth the effort and expense?Von Youthwork+

Becky and Olly discuss the transition out of Covid-19 lockdowns, their thoughts on new normal or back to normal, the opportunity of fresh starts and the importance of pausing and reflecting before moving on from anything.Von Youthwork+