I do youthwork as well...

Realised I haven’t put enough stuff about youthwork into this blog, so thought I’d add this little presentation that I prepared for my new boss (more on that as well eventually!) to show the kind of stuff we do round my way…


Jimmy is responsible for a number of regular and ad hoc activities in Berkhamsted and Northchurch.  These are as follows.

Regular Youth groups

• Wednesday Pathfinders Games Club


• T.E’s youth club


• (Friday Niters youth club)


• (Cell:Plus)

Schools work
Regular Assemblies at

• Victoria First School


• Thomas Coram Middle School


• Ashlyns Secondary School


• St Mary’s First School


• Westfield First School


• Greenway First School


• Berkhamsted Collegiate School

Occasional Contact (assemblies) with

• Egerton Rothesay School


• Bridgewater Middle School

Regular lunchtime clubs

• St Mary’s First school Bible club


• Thomas Coram Rock Solid group


• Ashlyns CU

As well as detached youthwork at lunchtimes at Ashlyns School

Trips away

• Firm Foundations Festival


• Soul Survivor Festival


• Annual Pathfinders Tour


• Chellington trip (provisionally regular! Only one so far!!)

Sundays
First Sunday of month - ST Peters
Second “     “     “  - St Mary’s
Third     “     “     “  - All Saints’
Fourth “     “     “  -  St Mary’s
Fifth     “     “     “  - Usually St Mary’s, but open to offers…

Other activities including co-ordinating town-wide occasional youth services (aWAKENING), as well as doing a weekly “Footy Alpha” with some of the yr10 and yr11 lads from Ashlyns School also are a regular part of the youthwork that Jimmy is involved in. The basis for all of this work is relational youthwork - building up steady and stable relationships with the young people involved in the different activities, and through that encouraging them in developing and growing faith. The model for this is illustrated below:

Using a model of concentric circles of ever increasing commitment and faith, we seek to draw the young people through and on into ever deeper faith.