MENDING BROKEN VESSELS
Children and Youth Ministry
AIMS
Objectives
Key aspects of youth ministry include:
- Spiritual Growth: Teaching biblical principles, facilitating prayer, worship, and Bible study, and helping youth explore their faith in meaningful ways.
- Discipleship: Mentoring and building relationships with young people to guide them on their spiritual journey, encouraging them to become active participants in the church and community.
- Community Building: Creating a safe, inclusive space where young people can build relationships with peers and adult mentors. This often involves group activities, retreats, mission trips, and social events that foster a sense of belonging.
- Service and Outreach: Encouraging youth to serve others through community service, volunteer work, and mission opportunities, reflecting Christ’s love through action.
- Addressing Life Issues: Providing support and guidance on real-life issues facing young people, such as peer pressure, mental health, relationships, and identity, all through a Christian perspective.
- Fun and Fellowship: Recognizing the importance of fun in youth ministry, offering recreational activities that engage young people and provide opportunities for them to connect with others in a lighthearted and joyful environment.
Children’s ministry is led by qualified nursery workers and teachers. They meet on a weekly basis to learn positive values and social skills relevant for everyday life.
Children are encouraged to express both negative and positive aspects of their lives and this is shared in various ways such as poetry and role-play.
They are also encouraged to become an active participant of the wider community/congregation by participating in its programmes. This helps to identify their gifts and talents building confidence and self-esteem.
This is the provision of various activities on a weekly basis. These include: – social leisure activities e.g. movie night, bowling, outings – teaching seminars which incorporates discussing issues commonly affecting young people: like drug abuse, gang crime, peer pressure, teenage pregnancy, sexual health and bullying.
Young people are given the opportunity to be creative and expressive by organising and delivering youth events. Here they utilise their skills and talents in an environment of acceptance and encouragement thus building confidence, leadership and teamwork.
These events delivered are relevant to the everyday lives of young people allowing them to assimilate and reflect on planned lessons learnt during the year.