Tom French is an experienced and gifted Bible teacher, who has been a speaker on PY camps numerous times. He’s currently a youth minister for a combined church youth group in Melbourne, and has worked and done talks for lots of big parachurch organisations in Australia. But even the most experienced givers of Bible talks had to start somewhere, and
When Jenni Greig started a PhD in 2011, she was busy, but she also had some newfound flexibility in her life, and she realised she could use it to help out with SRE in a local school. Jenni had a friend who coordinated SRE in a local public school in Bathurst, where they both live, so she was aware of
After finishing his ministry training, Keith McPherson began his first job as an assistant minister in a church in Tamworth in 2006. In the first two weeks of his job, he was thrown into coordinating SRE for two primary schools. He remembers, “I had never done anything like SRE before. And I basically took all the classes where I couldn’t
Despite the looming threat of the Omicron variant of COVID, PYNSW pushed ahead with running Summer Camp, and all agree – it was a roaring success! Youth from around NSW came together for fun and games, excellent Bible teaching, in-depth discussions, and a fantastic New Year’s celebration. While there were a couple of COVID scares, we thank God for protecting
As the 2022 school year kicks off, that means at many churches around NSW youth group is back! But with yet another year of pandemic restrictions and disruption ahead, how are youth leaders preparing? How do you make plans for teaching, activities and outings when so much is uncertain? We asked some youth leaders to share their experiences with us:
By John Greig Have you ever wanted to do something really useful with your life, but don’t know where to start? There are so many possibilities for service in Christian Mission that are worthy and good, but maybe you’ve never found something that’s quite the right fit for you? Here is another somewhat different suggestion. There are lots of small
