Youth Work

Do you justify the relationships you make? Are you someone who thinks there must be a reason for your relationships? As a youth worker my role is to develop relationships with young people. I am commanded to build trusted relationships. It is that simple. But in order to gain funding for this work I am […]

Outdoor Church starts this Sunday but indoors at the Red Store. As soon as the weather improves or we get funding for our shipping container we will be using the school field. Over the next ten weeks we will be looking at a variety of subjects that act as an introduction to Christianity. It will […]

This, in essence, is the meaning we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there’s not a trace of darkness in him. 1 John 1 v 5 The Message Challenging the young people to see God in all we do and find him in the light on October […]

Some of the young people took part in some of the protests that happened around the South West. Millie and Alice who go to our youth group and I recognise Anna who has come to youth group once or twice have been involved in demonstrations previously. Seems they have taken up the challenge once again! […]

I had a meeting this afternoon with Barney from Incarnate Network who I recently met and have started asking for his support in what we are doing. I have been committed and continue to be committed to all that we are doing in Lerryn but I wanted to sound him out and find out what […]

This week has been all about praying, reading and waiting on God. Monday, I met with the lads on the field and it really is too dark now. We need the container and/or some form of lighting if we want to continue using the field. We met Friday at the field and if you look […]

Hart’s Ladder of Participation is a model that can be used when developing and working on youth participation projects. It aims to enable young people to take an active part in decision making, and give them the opportunity to have a ‘voice’ in society. Hart states there are 8 steps on the ‘Ladder of Participation” […]

The title has two meanings: Last night we were on the field and had a lovely time. We lit a couple of fires, one to cook on and one to keep warm. It went dark very quickly and the ground was very wet so we didn’t do the running around we had done previously. Everyone, […]

And we keep building. The bench has gone from a single bench to a corner bench to a corner bench with trellis and we will eventually add a roof!

Monday (18th) Funding bid All Churches trust for Building on school field. Friday (22nd) Rich spending loads of hours on way forward as youth club and as a church. Lots of reading praying and notes made and distributed to people for comments Sunday (25th) Risk assessed waterfall trip for poss youth club outing. Rich contacted […]