Teenagers

Teenagers

Bigfattoothbrush - entertaining UK-based site for Christian teenagers
Breakaway - magazine for teenage boys from Focus on the Family
Chatdanger - chatroom safety on the internet
Christianstudent.net - informative, entertaining student site
Christianvibes.co.uk - youth site
Christian Youth Chat - for Scottish teens
Claymore - Christian roleplay game
Clubbers Temple - reaching the clubbing generation
Coastal Dune - promising Durham band
Crossrhythms - UK's top CCM magazine
Delirious? - the UK's top Christian band
Deerpants - spot the joke Northampton youthwork site
Don't buy it - be wise to the adman's lies
Fusion - cell-based student ministry
Give Me A Job - help for graduates
Gloriazine - low key outreach site to 13-30s
Headfiller.com - buy discounted text books, sell your old ones
Holy Space - pioneering site for seekers
icuk.com - free sound files and sheet music downloads
IndigoEcho - up and coming Scottish band
Junction Radio - run an Internet radio station
Lift the Label - clothing industry justice campaigns/ethical shopping
Million Dollar man - top wrestler turned preacher Ted DiBiase
Nameless Music - music ministry based at King's Church, Aldershot
NGM - radical outreach with Nancy and Ray Goudie's talented teams
POD - US Christian hard rock outfit Payable On Death
Riding Lights Theatre Company
Shock of Your Life - on the edge outreach book/site
Sloppy Noodle - a cool place to hang out, chat and argue on the issues of the day
Soteria magazine - online youth magazine put together by young people in Cornwall churches
Soul Survivor - radical Bible week now planning London mission in 2004
Speak - radical student campaigners
Sword of the Elyon - Christian fantasy game
Tribal Generation - radical new web-led youth community
True Love Waits - US-run abstinence campaign for teens
24-7prayer.com - new prayer movement
University groups - UCCF and Fusion
wazupgod - a spiritual hook for the Budweiser ad slogan
WWJD - the official site
Xcell - innovative youth ministry based in Oxfordshire around doubledecker bus and small groups

Looking to build an online community of 18-35 year-olds sold out to Christ are St Thomas Crooke's Church, Sheffield, who have launched a highly interactive site in Tribal Generation. You can chat, enter 3D environments, explore faith and generally enjoy a cool online experience. Well worth a visit.
With youngsters meeting adults they first encountered online in chat rooms once more making the news, it's worth stressing once more that www.ccpas.co.uk, www.chatdanger.com and www.childnet-int.org/ all have sound, helpful advice on internet safety
For a fun UK-based Christian site for teenagers, check out bigfattoothbrush.co.uk - there's an online magazine, bible teaching, chat, events, downloads and more
Help your kids see through advertising and media hype and deception - point them to http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
Soteria magazine - www.soteriamag.org.uk - is a web-based publication produced by young Christians in Cornwall initially for young people locally, but now available online for anyone interested to take a look. Offering articles on key youth issues, a problem page, events and more, it's certainly well worth a visit.
Check out some imaginative youthwork in rural Oxfordshire at www.xcell-uk.com
If you are not familiar with the clubbing scene ask someone under 25! Clubbers Temple is an outreach to clubbers, based in UK and run by NGM.org.uk, 24-7prayer.com and TribalGeneration.com
http://www.clubberstemple.com/
And read the 'Believers Weekly' newsletter review of the site by Bill Yates:
http://www.worldvillage.com/sitereviews/believers.html?id=342
Check out the site for Focus on the Family's magazine for teenage boys - Breakaway. Plenty to do and read, if you can get past the US culture ... http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/
Tearfund's Lift the Label campaign is doing the rounds of the summer festivals this year, from Soul Survivor to New Wine and beyond, all aimed at helping young people make ethical choices when they buy their clothes. Helpful websites include: www.tearfund.org; ethicalconsumer.org; labourbehindthelabel.org; oneworld.org, cleanclothes.org
True Love Waits is a massive international campaign that challenges teenagers and college students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. Over one million teenagers have committed to purity through True Love Waits, and you're invited to join them in their decision. For parents and youth leaders, there's plenty of information, Bible studies, and other tools for encouraging teens and young people to remain sexually pure until marriage.
Stoke-based Vibes Youth Resources have launched a website with a free E-zine, competitions, audio bible and plenty of other features. It's early days (still some dodgy spelling and links that don't work) but it could develop into a handy resource. Check out www.christianvibes.co.uk/TheMag.htm
A new website for Christian students, put together in Northern Ireland, is gaining in influence - offering helpful information, an e-zine, reviews and links. Check out christianstudent.net
Soul Survivor has ambitious plans for a massive mission in London in 2004 - Soul in the City. Find out more at http://www.soulsurvivor.com/soulinthecity
Described as an "awesome" site, Sloppy Noodle is a place for teens to meet in community, whether sharing testimony, poetry, contributed stories or just chatting.Find answers to issues like sex and love, smoke and dope, miracles, violence, evolution and self-harm. Plus posters, humour, music and book suggestions.
The ‘Wuzzupp!’ Budweiser TV ad has been one of the cool sayings for the past year or so, and wuzupgod takes it as a starting point for spiritual exploration. It's a nicely put together Flash site that keeps you interested with some very worthwhile content. Check it out
The members of POD, with their dreadlocks, piercings and hard rock rap style, may not be to your taste - but may be spot on for your teeanger. This popular band with a Christian message (POD stands for "payable on death," a reference to the atonement) is having a definite influence on today's youth culture. And new single Alive has been one of the most requested videos on MTV's TRL show. Check out http://www.payableondeath.com/
There's a new meeting point for Christian teenagers in Scotland at Christian Youth Chat, a networking site offering real-time chat, message boards, events postings, e-cards and more. Looks like it could get plenty
Could computer games be an increasingly valid way to reach the internet generation? Worth a read is this perspective on the massive Gospelcom site ... and then check out two Christian fantasy games looking to put it into practice: Sword of the Elyon and Claymore. And let us know your thoughts, whether you're a gamer, a parent - or both!
If you're after the latest on Delirious? major support slot on the Bon Jovi tour in June, news of forthcoming releases or anything else on the UK's top Christian band, head for www.delirious.co.uk
If you've got the wristband, read the book and find the WWJD acronym a vital part of living your faith day to day, check out the official website at www.gospelcom.net/wwjd/
Nancy and Ray Goudie have a wealth of experience in youth ministry, from their days with Christian creative community Heartbeat to the present, when they can be found leading NGM - New Generation Ministries. With a roster of cutting edge bands making a difference in local schools, schemes to train young people in evangelism, and regular contemporary worship events geared to modern culture, there's plenty to be inspired by here.
There's a fascinating low key evangelism site at www.gloriazine.com aimed at young people aged 13-30 - well worth checking out, and full of neat Flash animations.
A radical new Christian student generation is getting involved in protest, campaigning and direct action on a while range of peace, justice and ethical issues, led by the likes of Speak. Carrying the flame for passionate youthful campaigning, if you haven't heard of them yet, they'll be big news before long.
Students heading off to college for the first time this autumn should check out theFusion site for news, training dates and info about their cell-based ministry
Bookseller Blackwell's have launched a new site for students offering discounted text and course books, and offering to buy them back once they're finished with. Check out headfiller.com and ease the load in that rucksack!
If your teenagers are less than switched on to church, God and Christianity at the moment, try pointing them at The Shock of Your Life - a new book/website with an offbeat and loosely structured feel designed specifically for them. It could prompt some very interesting questions.
If you like a giggle, some cheeky chaps in Northampton have put together a youthwork oriented site for their area with a very silly name: Deerpants. Surf along, if only for the jokey title.
If you're a teenager looking to head on to college in the autumn - or you've got one lurking in the house somewhere - two sites you have to visit are www.uccf.org.uk/ and www.fusion-uk.org.uk/ Both UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and Fusion (a New Church-led student support ministry) have stacks of handy resources and information
As students revise in preparation for finals this summer, many thoughts will be turning to the job front. A new site looks to help in the process, and makes no bones about it - it's called Give Me a Job! It looks to bring graduates and employers together, and appears pretty objective and independent, so check it out.
Making waves in a big way in Scotland at the moment, and looking likely to reach your ears soon wherever you live are the intriguingly named Christian band IndigoEcho - highly rated in music industry circles, their album One is previewed on their neatly put together site. So watch this space.
The growing prayer movement has spawned another website - www.24-7prayer.com It's attracting a lot of interest, and it's easy to see why
Now a couple for youngsters: if you fancy running an Internet radio station in a project run by Oasis Media and Compassion UK to raise funds for the developing world, head for http://www.junctionradio.com
And if you're a wrestling fan (well, it's possible - Jacob was a wrestler!) head for the site of former well known American pro wrestler Ted DiBiase (http://www.milliondollarman.com). He's now a preacher and runs Heart of David ministries. "Wrestling has changed," he says. "Today it is vulgar, without morals or values." Check it out - you might just agree with him
Crossrhythms magazine have updated their site with lots of new features, so pay them a visit - and Riding Lights Theatre Company are on the web with tour details and more. Student types and lovers of fine contemporary Christian music might like to check out Coastal Dune, tipped as the next big thing - at least to come out of Durham University ...
One of the UK's longest standing Christian sites is at www.icuk.com which is now in its fourth year of operation. Surf along to find more than 3,000 sound files from the latest Christian music albums, hear interviews with top artists and even download free sheet music.
There's a hive of worship music activity at The King's Church in Aldershot, and it seems to have spawned several bands and a feature packed website neatly lassooed and brought together as Nameless Music. You can listen to songs, check out lyrics, and find out about concerts. There is also a good links page with major youth worship/church sites.
Taking an innovate approach to low-key evangelism via the web is Holy Space - a collaborative effort stemming from CPO and OSBD (youth outreach resource One Small Barking Dog). It's a cool, highly interactive site making plentiful use of Shockwave and Flash plug-ins, so you'll need them to view it. But it's ideal for teenagers and techy types keen on investigating Christian spirituality on their own terms, in some style. Recommend it to your youth group.
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		WEBWATCH INDEX Teenagers Bigfattoothbrush - entertaining UK-based site for Christian teenagers Breakaway - magazine for teenage boys from Focus on the Family Chatdanger - chatroom safety on the internet Christianstudent.net - informative, entertaining student site Christianvibes.co.uk - youth site Christian Youth Chat - for Scottish teens Claymore - Christian roleplay game Clubbers Temple - reaching the clubbing generation Coastal Dune - promising Durham band Crossrhythms - UK's top CCM magazine Delirious? - the UK's top Christian band Deerpants - spot the joke Northampton youthwork site Don't buy it - be wise to the adman's lies Fusion - cell-based student ministry Give Me A Job - help for graduates Gloriazine - low key outreach site to 13-30s Headfiller.com - buy discounted text books, sell your old ones Holy Space - pioneering site for seekers icuk.com - free sound files and sheet music downloads IndigoEcho - up and coming Scottish band Junction Radio - run an Internet radio station Lift the Label - clothing industry justice campaigns/ethical shopping Million Dollar man - top wrestler turned preacher Ted DiBiase Nameless Music - music ministry based at King's Church, Aldershot NGM - radical outreach with Nancy and Ray Goudie's talented teams POD - US Christian hard rock outfit Payable On Death Riding Lights Theatre Company Shock of Your Life - on the edge outreach book/site Sloppy Noodle - a cool place to hang out, chat and argue on the issues of the day Soteria magazine - online youth magazine put together by young people in Cornwall churches Soul Survivor - radical Bible week now planning London mission in 2004 Speak - radical student campaigners Sword of the Elyon - Christian fantasy game Tribal Generation - radical new web-led youth community True Love Waits - US-run abstinence campaign for teens 24-7prayer.com - new prayer movement University groups - UCCF and Fusion wazupgod - a spiritual hook for the Budweiser ad slogan WWJD - the official site Xcell - innovative youth ministry based in Oxfordshire around doubledecker bus and small groups Looking to build an online community of 18-35 year-olds sold out to Christ are St Thomas Crooke's Church, Sheffield, who have launched a highly interactive site in Tribal Generation. You can chat, enter 3D environments, explore faith and generally enjoy a cool online experience. Well worth a visit. With youngsters meeting adults they first encountered online in chat rooms once more making the news, it's worth stressing once more that www.ccpas.co.uk, www.chatdanger.com and www.childnet-int.org/ all have sound, helpful advice on internet safety For a fun UK-based Christian site for teenagers, check out bigfattoothbrush.co.uk - there's an online magazine, bible teaching, chat, events, downloads and more Help your kids see through advertising and media hype and deception - point them to http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/ Soteria magazine - www.soteriamag.org.uk - is a web-based publication produced by young Christians in Cornwall initially for young people locally, but now available online for anyone interested to take a look. Offering articles on key youth issues, a problem page, events and more, it's certainly well worth a visit. Check out some imaginative youthwork in rural Oxfordshire at www.xcell-uk.com If you are not familiar with the clubbing scene ask someone under 25! Clubbers Temple is an outreach to clubbers, based in UK and run by NGM.org.uk, 24-7prayer.com and TribalGeneration.com http://www.clubberstemple.com/ And read the 'Believers Weekly' newsletter review of the site by Bill Yates: http://www.worldvillage.com/sitereviews/believers.html?id=342 Check out the site for Focus on the Family's magazine for teenage boys - Breakaway. Plenty to do and read, if you can get past the US culture ... http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/ Tearfund's Lift the Label campaign is doing the rounds of the summer festivals this year, from Soul Survivor to New Wine and beyond, all aimed at helping young people make ethical choices when they buy their clothes. Helpful websites include: www.tearfund.org; ethicalconsumer.org; labourbehindthelabel.org; oneworld.org, cleanclothes.org True Love Waits is a massive international campaign that challenges teenagers and college students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. Over one million teenagers have committed to purity through True Love Waits, and you're invited to join them in their decision. For parents and youth leaders, there's plenty of information, Bible studies, and other tools for encouraging teens and young people to remain sexually pure until marriage. Stoke-based Vibes Youth Resources have launched a website with a free E-zine, competitions, audio bible and plenty of other features. It's early days (still some dodgy spelling and links that don't work) but it could develop into a handy resource. Check out www.christianvibes.co.uk/TheMag.htm A new website for Christian students, put together in Northern Ireland, is gaining in influence - offering helpful information, an e-zine, reviews and links. Check out christianstudent.net Soul Survivor has ambitious plans for a massive mission in London in 2004 - Soul in the City. Find out more at http://www.soulsurvivor.com/soulinthecity Described as an "awesome" site, Sloppy Noodle is a place for teens to meet in community, whether sharing testimony, poetry, contributed stories or just chatting.Find answers to issues like sex and love, smoke and dope, miracles, violence, evolution and self-harm. Plus posters, humour, music and book suggestions. The ‘Wuzzupp!’ Budweiser TV ad has been one of the cool sayings for the past year or so, and wuzupgod takes it as a starting point for spiritual exploration. It's a nicely put together Flash site that keeps you interested with some very worthwhile content. Check it out The members of POD, with their dreadlocks, piercings and hard rock rap style, may not be to your taste - but may be spot on for your teeanger. This popular band with a Christian message (POD stands for "payable on death," a reference to the atonement) is having a definite influence on today's youth culture. And new single Alive has been one of the most requested videos on MTV's TRL show. Check out http://www.payableondeath.com/ There's a new meeting point for Christian teenagers in Scotland at Christian Youth Chat, a networking site offering real-time chat, message boards, events postings, e-cards and more. Looks like it could get plenty Could computer games be an increasingly valid way to reach the internet generation? Worth a read is this perspective on the massive Gospelcom site ... and then check out two Christian fantasy games looking to put it into practice: Sword of the Elyon and Claymore. And let us know your thoughts, whether you're a gamer, a parent - or both! If you're after the latest on Delirious? major support slot on the Bon Jovi tour in June, news of forthcoming releases or anything else on the UK's top Christian band, head for www.delirious.co.uk If you've got the wristband, read the book and find the WWJD acronym a vital part of living your faith day to day, check out the official website at www.gospelcom.net/wwjd/ Nancy and Ray Goudie have a wealth of experience in youth ministry, from their days with Christian creative community Heartbeat to the present, when they can be found leading NGM - New Generation Ministries. With a roster of cutting edge bands making a difference in local schools, schemes to train young people in evangelism, and regular contemporary worship events geared to modern culture, there's plenty to be inspired by here. There's a fascinating low key evangelism site at www.gloriazine.com aimed at young people aged 13-30 - well worth checking out, and full of neat Flash animations. A radical new Christian student generation is getting involved in protest, campaigning and direct action on a while range of peace, justice and ethical issues, led by the likes of Speak. Carrying the flame for passionate youthful campaigning, if you haven't heard of them yet, they'll be big news before long. Students heading off to college for the first time this autumn should check out theFusion site for news, training dates and info about their cell-based ministry Bookseller Blackwell's have launched a new site for students offering discounted text and course books, and offering to buy them back once they're finished with. Check out headfiller.com and ease the load in that rucksack! If your teenagers are less than switched on to church, God and Christianity at the moment, try pointing them at The Shock of Your Life - a new book/website with an offbeat and loosely structured feel designed specifically for them. It could prompt some very interesting questions. If you like a giggle, some cheeky chaps in Northampton have put together a youthwork oriented site for their area with a very silly name: Deerpants. Surf along, if only for the jokey title. If you're a teenager looking to head on to college in the autumn - or you've got one lurking in the house somewhere - two sites you have to visit are www.uccf.org.uk/ and www.fusion-uk.org.uk/ Both UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and Fusion (a New Church-led student support ministry) have stacks of handy resources and information As students revise in preparation for finals this summer, many thoughts will be turning to the job front. A new site looks to help in the process, and makes no bones about it - it's called Give Me a Job! It looks to bring graduates and employers together, and appears pretty objective and independent, so check it out. Making waves in a big way in Scotland at the moment, and looking likely to reach your ears soon wherever you live are the intriguingly named Christian band IndigoEcho - highly rated in music industry circles, their album One is previewed on their neatly put together site. So watch this space. The growing prayer movement has spawned another website - www.24-7prayer.com It's attracting a lot of interest, and it's easy to see why Now a couple for youngsters: if you fancy running an Internet radio station in a project run by Oasis Media and Compassion UK to raise funds for the developing world, head for http://www.junctionradio.com And if you're a wrestling fan (well, it's possible - Jacob was a wrestler!) head for the site of former well known American pro wrestler Ted DiBiase (http://www.milliondollarman.com). He's now a preacher and runs Heart of David ministries. "Wrestling has changed," he says. "Today it is vulgar, without morals or values." Check it out - you might just agree with him Crossrhythms magazine have updated their site with lots of new features, so pay them a visit - and Riding Lights Theatre Company are on the web with tour details and more. Student types and lovers of fine contemporary Christian music might like to check out Coastal Dune, tipped as the next big thing - at least to come out of Durham University ... One of the UK's longest standing Christian sites is at www.icuk.com which is now in its fourth year of operation. Surf along to find more than 3,000 sound files from the latest Christian music albums, hear interviews with top artists and even download free sheet music. There's a hive of worship music activity at The King's Church in Aldershot, and it seems to have spawned several bands and a feature packed website neatly lassooed and brought together as Nameless Music. You can listen to songs, check out lyrics, and find out about concerts. There is also a good links page with major youth worship/church sites. Taking an innovate approach to low-key evangelism via the web is Holy Space - a collaborative effort stemming from CPO and OSBD (youth outreach resource One Small Barking Dog). It's a cool, highly interactive site making plentiful use of Shockwave and Flash plug-ins, so you'll need them to view it. But it's ideal for teenagers and techy types keen on investigating Christian spirituality on their own terms, in some style. Recommend it to your youth group. back to top of this category back to top