The Future of Christian Youth Work

Youth Work After Christendom

I was recently at a workshop day in Exeter looking at ‘The Future of Christian Youth Work.’ The workshop was led by Nigel Pimlott who recently wrote Youth Work After Christendom.  A great book that really every person who is working within youth work/ministry should read.

As part of the workshop FYT have got a downloadable report called ‘A Report on The Future of Christian Youth Work’ that you can get here. It very challenging reading with some great questions like:
- Will future youth work ethics be consistent with church ethics?
- How will we equip young people to be theologians?

and my favourite:
- Should we re-imagine the ‘Christian package’ enough to make it accessible and open enough for all? Will young people be able to openly question and reject parts of ‘the package’ without rejecting it all?

There are some very importent questians that I think need to be wrestled with within Christian Youth Work. But also I think that the conversation needs to go wider then youth work and spill over into the rest of the church to prepare it for when the teenagers become adults as well as encoraging the Church to ask the questians that  it should have asked 10 years ago…just a thought.

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