Using Camps and Overseas Adventures to build on the weekly ministry
Despite being a busy GP, Andrew Craven makes it a priority not only to run a weekly Group but also to take the young people on Camps and Overseas Adventures. He explains why he feels these additional activities are so important in building on the weekly ministry. Having been linked to...
Making Young Disciples for Jesus
Let me tell you about two brothers I met last Sunday. I went to a small local church on a council estate in one of the most deprived areas in the UK. Two friendly boys aged about 10 and 8 were kicking a football around in the church car park...
New Energize website launches
We are delighted to announce that the brand new version of Energize has launched this week, after a year of behind-the-scenes development. Energize (our key resources website) launched in 2003 and currently provides quality discipleship materials - including prayer ideas, video clips and discussion starters - to over 1600 churches and...
Refreshing Urban Saints
March 29th has always been a special day for Urban Saints. It is the date the movement first began, when the handful of Crusader Classes joined together to become a Union in 1906. On the 113th birthday of this Union (when we once again 'become a teenager', so to speak),...
The Long Walk
Spring 1900. An English missionary, enjoying some rest and study time at home from the mission field, started a youth group after a chance encounter in a North London park. Without knowing it, he began a long walk that we are all still on today. Albert Kestin responded to a need in...
To receive and to serve
I wonder what we think of when we hear the word Trust? Something you have a confidence in or a high certainty that something will happen? When we Trust a person, perhaps we have a specific expectation and objectivity about the confidence we place in them, to see something through? We have...