J-Walk is the name of a new magazine that we are launching on Friday night at CCECYOUTH. The magazine will have both web and print content.

J-Walk has been a long time coming! In 2003 on a youth group camp a number of teenagers were flicking through some girly magazine (Girlfriend? maybe?). It was reasonably innocent at the time... but it got me thinking that there isn't really anything available for the teenagers in my youth group to read that will help them make sense of the world around them (that's what those girly magazines are doing) and also what it means to be a Christian living in that world. When I was a teenager there was a youth magazine that matthiasmedia had running for a year called Zed - it almost sent them bankrupt - so they canned it! But at the time I wasn't at a great church and it was actually Zed that helped me to keep going as a Christian for that year!

I had plans at one stage to do a larger-scale project (ie Nation-wide)- but thought that I'd rather launch something specific to our context and our group - that other teenagers would be more than welcome to download and read as well. So each month we plan on putting out a printed edition of J-walk (glossy cover - with simple black and white pages), having a pdf downloadable from www.ccecyouth.com + a number of interactive articles online.

Basically the aim of J-walk is to help teenagers understand the Bible and the World. The key to understanding the world is understanding what God says about it in the Bible... my prayer is that our teenagers would be able to understand the world through the Bible's grid.

In the first edition I have an article that explains the title and what it means... so stay tuned! (I might even post it here)

A month ago I made this post on the youth site. And this guy found it and linked to it. It lead to 1000 hits of traffic - he has a very popular blog! They all said they liked the graphic in the comments section...

Do you like the logo? Do you think this whole J-Walk thing will be effective? Time will tell...