Youthwork goes multi-lingual

Youthwork International is a new online youth ministry magazine, with a truly international flavour. (The featured article today is in German, for instance.) It was founded in the UK, but has a consulting editorial team scattered around the globe.
The content is all free and includes ready-to-go youth ministry sessions, articles, teaching resources, book reviews, blogs, news updates from around the world, and a good deal more (including a bunch of you tube videos - most of which I could have done without watching, especially the young black worship leader who can't sing in tune, and doesn't appear to know the words!)
There's a multilingual flavour to the site: at present there are resources in English, Arabic and German. Spanish, Afrikaans and Hindi resources are to follow. So far the site has had hits from people in more than sixty countries. And it's interactive: Youthwork is looking for good youth work material of all kinds. There's a contact page, but it's also possible to write directly to either steve.griffiths@premier.org.uk, or fuzz.kitto@spirited.net.au.

YouthTrain lists Youthwork International as one of its top ten sites of 2008. The others are:

• The Fuller Youth Institute: For excellent research, articles and audio
• Centre for Parent/Youth Understanding: Again, excellent research and articles with a particular emphasis on youth culture
• Youth Specialties: A very good all round site with articles along with resources for sale.
• Simply Youth Ministry Lots of resources, articles and freebies.
• The Journal of Student Ministries: Up to date news, blogs and articles on youth ministry.
• Youthwork: A UK site with articles, resources and audio.
• The Source for Youth Ministry: Plenty of good articles, resources and ideas.
• YouthPastor.com: Containing news, resources and ideas.
• YouthMinistry.com: Articles, resources and freebies from a range of sources.