Recommended Youth Group Resources

Connect: Different Faiths Shared Values

The Interfaith Networks' Connect resource is an easy to use and engaging resource for any youth groups looking for ideas on why and how they can go about talking to people of other faiths.

It includes handy hints such as how to make wherever you meet welcoming as welcoming as possible; what not to feed your guests if you invite them for dinner; and some useful reflections on the scriptural basis of many faiths engaging with others.

www.interfaith.org.uk/publications

Save the Children: Diversity and Dialogue

Funded by a range of secular and faith based humanitarian charities, Save the Children's Dialogue & Diversity programme helps young people engage in interfaith dialogue through their shared concern about injustice in our world.

Based on the experience of Save the Children's regional workers, the Dialogue & Diversity reference (available free of charge) is a thoughtful and well structured resource, equally at home in the classroom or youth group. The resource pack includes a range of good icebreakers, points for discussion and structured sessions supported by a DVD of young people discussing their faith with others. The website also includes a list of local interfaith youth forums.

An Inter Faith Pack: The Life We Share

All people of faith share similar life experiences: loving, learning, suffering, struggling, preparing for death. The Life We Share, a pack designed for individual or group use, focuses on fifteen people from five faiths talking about their lives of faith. It includes a CD, a CD Rom, Group Reflection Sheets, Bible Studies related to the theme of the CD and a worship resource.

This is a joint project between the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Methodist Church and was published in October 2003. The Life We Share was produced jointly with the United Society for the Propogation of the Gospel.

Available from: mph, 4 John Wesley Road, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 6ZP. Tel: 01733 325002 E-mail: sales@mph.org.uk . Single copy £10.00 plus £3.00 postage