Church on the Edge (National)

Description of the project:

Aims- Building on the partners strengths and knowledge of working with young people on the edge of society to develop a fresh approach to challenging young people's behaviour through good youth work processes with the critical intention to grow a relevant expression of church with marginalized young people. To identify the key issues in establishing church with marginalized young people through the process and disseminate this through the Christian community in the UK to facilitate locally grounded and resource light expressions of church.

Objectives:

1-To build meaningful and purposeful relationships with young people in three pilot areas Birmingham, Somerset and Devon.

2- To build a sense of community with the young people through a variety of means including, regular contact, mutual support, activities and trips, and residential experiences.

3- To identify and develop a second step project, where young people go through (with the worker) a wilderness or rite of passage experience, that consolidates them as a group and develops a sense of openness to one another and desire to change/grow.

4- To work with the young people through action research to develop a culturally relevant expression of church.

Type of FYT involvement:

Associate

Description of FYT's involvement:

A partnership project with CMS, Diocese of Exeter and Local Churches in association with Bristol CYM.

Who's it for?

Young people in the pilot areas and for the partners to learn to disseminate to other youth workers nationally

We are now in the process of expanding the project to other areas and if you have a project that may be appropriate to join in or are looking to grow church from your youth work please get in touch with Richard Passmore.

If you want to visit or learn from our findings so far visit our collaborative wiki cote.wetpaint.com/