I am just finishing the third year of ministry with my church in Birmingham. Most of the youth ministry operates towards the building phase of Jesus’s strategy. We meet regularly giving talks and putting on events but we have been challenging young people to step out in faith, to really take on a roles of [...] Read more »
Family ministry, whether it is for Christians or non-Christians, may not be about calling people to come to a church building, but rather to invite them to join God’s family in a community (EKKLESIA/church = Gathering of people in any place at any time). Going to church may no longer be defined as going to a building [...] Read more »
Our Thursday night youth group, called IGNITE has doubled in size the last few weeks. We have just successfully changed the time to make it last longer and have incorporated a meal together as part of it. The most exciting thing that has come out of this is that several of the young people that [...] Read more »
Abstract: An unexpected and unplanned sequence of events led a small group of adults and young people to stop and ask God what he wanted for the young people of a town in the UK called Bicester. The group started to meet to pray and research what the needs of teenagers in Bicester were. The repeated phrase that came out of this process was ‘a safe, warm, dry place to go’. Six months later Crowded Costa was launched in the local coffee shop on the high street.
