Urban Saints invited to join the European Disability Network
The work of the Additional Needs Ministry at Urban Saints has been recognised internationally as the steering group of the European Disability Network have invited us to join, representing children and young people from the UK with additional needs or disabilities. The European Disability Network seeks to see a dynamic disability...
Can You Take Young People With Additional Needs On Overseas Mission?
Going on an overseas mission trip can often be a transforming and life changing experience; offering an opportunity to serve in a very different culture and environment, challenging our worldview and our perceptions of our role in the world. Taking young people on a short-term mission trip experience can equip...
Making groups more accessible
At Urban Saints we love groups that are as accessible as possible for as many children and young people as possible. Our commitment to supporting those with additional needs and disabilities (and their families) is one way we are helping groups to become more accessible. If your group or church is...
Children's peer groups: Same age or shared interest?
Sometimes, we do things that can make very little sense at all. Sometimes, we do those things unthinkingly, because “It’s always been done that way…” Sometimes, it’s only when we are challenged to really think about it, that we realise that there might be a better way… That’s the journey...
Be more like Christ
What is discipleship? It is not knowing more information about Jesus but knowing Jesus and being transformed into his image by constant exposure to God’s grace. Jesus naturally discipled the disciples by hanging out and growing with them 24/7. This enabled the disciples to become more Christ-like in their behaviour. Becoming...
Spiritual Maturity
There is an idol of youth in our culture. I don't mean we worship young people, but we have a preoccupation with youth; whether it's looking younger, feeling young again, or recapturing what we missed out on. However, do we honestly want to go back to the school playground where we...