Youth related articles

  1. Children come forward to be baptised as Messy Church continues to thrive

    Several children who are regular attendees of Messy Church have come forward for baptism.

  2. Christmas in a box - church's innovative idea welcomed by children and parents during Advent

    Hundreds of children at church school given innovative boxes complete with craft activities for Advent and Christmas. 

  3. More than 1,000 children to be fed through church led summer holiday scheme

    Churches are hosting activities from curry nights to community barbecues as part of a summer holiday scheme that is expected to feed more than 1,000 children in one diocese alone.

  4. Sowing seeds: how a patch of wasteland became heart of community

    In just a few years, a patch of once unused land in the middle of the Quarrendon estate in Aylesbury, Bucks, has been transformed into the beating heart of the community by the local church.

  5. Young Christians to march from Cornwall to Glasgow to campaign for Climate Justice

    Hundreds of young Christians are to lead a pilgrimage which spans the length of the country – from the G7 to COP26.

  6. Young leaders from Church schools meet General Synod members ahead of first in-person meeting

    Young people, aged between 12 and 17, from across England led and engaged in discussions with members of the General Synod ahead of the first full in-person meeting since before the pandemic. 

  7. ‘It gave me back hope and ambition’– Cathedral helps young people

    Lichfield Cathedral helped 30 unemployed young people find work last year, by making six-month job placements available for 16 to 24-year-olds, as part of the Government’s Kickstart Scheme. 

  8. ‘With the sporting groups, we started to see growth’

    When Revd Danny Driver became the parish vicar at Christ the Redeemer, Barnwell, he used sport ministry to build new bridges between the church and the community.