Scatter News
an article from a previous issue
Pointing Young people towards outreach
The
Christian Unions this term are going to be looking at outreach and how
to share your faith with your friends – for example, how do
you tell people about your testimony and how you became a
Christian. The CU’s grew last term and have formed
a good community of Christians where we now have the opportunity to
look outwards into sharing the faith. Each week the young
people will be set a challenge to put into practice the form of
outreach they have learnt in the CU session.
First
Aid for the Schools:
At the end of the Spring Term there will be a mission week happening in each secondary school. This will combine the Easter assemblies, detached work and also the CU outreach projects. The week will aim to teach young people about the life saving message of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Assemblies:
I plan to do a week of SCAt
assemblies in each secondary school on the
Easter theme. This week will tie in with the mission week and
will allow for questions to be asked in detached when we focus on the
mission the CUs have planned. I am excited about using the
assemblies as a method of communicating the meaning of Jesus’
death as it will be shared with the whole school.
Lessons:
I
haven’t been involved in many lessons so prayer that this
area of the work would grow would be good. However I have
been invited into some lessons, including ones which I would never have
expected, for example a sociology lesson in SJB and a Religious Studies
lesson in Woking College.
Mentoring:
This is something that is starting up in Woking High where Roxy will go
in and have a set lunch time when she is available to chat with young
people in more depth than the detached workers offer. I am
also hoping to get involved with the peer mentoring scheme which
happens in Winston.
Chaplaincy:
Chaplaincy
happens in Woking College and I go in and am around for the
students and staff to come and talk to about anything. I have
been building up good relationships with both students and staff over
the past term and hope conversations I have with them will develop into
ones about faith and Christianity.
Senior
Crusaders:
This
happens at Emmanuel Chapel and is a youth club which also offers some
Christian teaching. It is a very hectic evening as the young
people are very energetic! It is an amazing opportunity to
share the Gospel with young people who may not have any other Christian
input or teaching
Detached:
This work is going really well and I am encouraged about how many young people now have contact with Christian youth workers. It is very rare that we go into a school and don’t talk to anyone. Young people know who we are now and will come up and chat with us; the topic of our faith comes up more regularly and God is using this work as a powerful means of teaching young people about faith.
Bagels and Bible
a blend of holy and
sustaining
dough, with a touch of jam, as man cannot live by bread alone but needs
some fruit of the Spirit.
Croissants
and Prayer
for the foreigners of the world whose real home is Heaven.
Orange
Juice
Everyone needs their vitamin C but we also need our Vitamin G O D.
Served up at Winston, Wednesdays and Woking High, Thursdays before
school.
Overall
theme
Something that is on my heart at the moment is the fact that not many
young people have the opportunity to hear about God and what it is to
be a Christian. It was once said to me that a young person
may only meet one Jesus in their whole life and that might be me, or
you. My aim for this term is to work within the schools being
Jesus to all young people, and not only me but the youth workers and
gap year students who go in, too. But more importantly, the
Christian young people in the schools who have peer relationships with
their friends are the most powerful way of showing young people who
Jesus was and still is today. So let’s get to it
and make sure the pre-Christians become Christians and don’t
stay in the ‘pre’ sector!
Chrissie