The team exhibiting at the 2008 Children's Ministry Conference in Eastbourne had their hands full as they tried to gather valuable kidswork experience from the conference guests. Urban Saints ran a competition to get everybody's "one top tip" for surviving working with children. The best answer would win a year's free Energize subscription and on top of that, the first 100 people to enter received a special 'Kidswork Survival Kit", complete with a giant foam Urban Saints hand.

The response was phenomenal with all the Survival Kits having been handed out before the halfway point of the conference! Our giant hands were spotted all over the conference venue. The "top tips" will now be gathered together with the best ones being published in a book in time for next year's conference!

We are always in need of more volunteers to help promote Urban Saints at conferences and festivals such as this or Soul Survivor or the Youthwork Conference. Could you help us spread the word about the work of Urban Saints? Would you be willing to offer support and encouragement to youth and children's leaders from all over the UK? Do you just like making new contacts and meeting new people? If so, please get in touch and see where you can help us out!