Recently at PYNSW, we have sought out ministry workers across NSW who we are calling, Presbytery Youth Reps (PY Reps). PY Reps are individuals who focus on developing an understanding of what is happening within their area at local churches, specifically in their youth ministries, to see if there are opportunities to bring people and resources together. Our PY Rep
Have you ever considered that the call of Ephesians 4, to be united and mature in Christ, may be bigger than your local church? Or your denomination? That it may apply to the church, the body of Christ as a whole? So then, how can we encourage the church, cross-denominationally to be a unified witness of Christ, seeking to be
Kids ministry can’t be limited. The opportunities for sharing the Gospel are endless. That is what Isaac Jung and the members of Berry Presbyterian know full well. Isaac has been the Senior Minister at Berry Presbyterian for nine years, with his wife Janice, and four school-aged children. In the small, retiree, coastal town of Berry, their church receives many tourists
Alan’s Story Alan Au had the privilege of growing up in a Christian household where his family attended a small Chinese church, and although Alan couldn’t understand all the things they were saying as there was not an English speaking pastor, he knew from a young age that church was everybody’s business. As a high schooler, as a uni student,
Rachel Norman was 14 when she attended her first PYNSW Summer Camp – and she’s hardly missed a camp in the decades since! Rachel was the child of a minister and remembers spending much of her time flying ‘under the radar’. While she was a ‘good kid’, she didn’t have a genuine personal faith in Jesus. But on camp, she
Ethan Mills grew up in a small church with no youth group. The church was biblically sound, but numbers in his age group were slim, with the only other two being Ethan’s twin brother and a little girl. Ethan shares, “There was an absence of a youth group for a very long time, from 2005 all the way till I
