Thrive’s vision is to see every church within our local area with a thriving youth ministry.

To see our vision become a reality, we realise we need to help churches with both their youth work and their children’s work. Thrive offers support to local churches to be more fruitful in reaching out to children and young people and seeing them come to faith in Christ. We want to encourage leaders in their discipleship of the next generation, and we offer practical advice, training and skills as well as encouragement, nurturing and inspiration.

We aim to fulfil our vision by focusing on three priorities: 

Mobilise the Church

We offer to walk alongside churches as they look to develop their youth and children’s work. We offer resources to help them review their attitudes to young people as well as offering advice on how to improve their delivery of youth work.

We have developed a step by step process to help churches create a youth ministry fit for the new century, and with a hands-on approach from Thrive. We have two Youth Mission Enablers who provide churches with the expertise and knowledge to lead them through the process.

 

Enabling healthy youth & children’s leaders 

We provide regular training and one-to-one mentoring for youth and children’s leaders, both volunteers and employed staff. This helps leaders to feel valued, understood and supported in their ministry. It enables them to grow and develop as leaders as well as in their ministries. We believe mentoring is an essential element for a leader if they are to be resilient and have longevity in their position.

 

Invest in the Next Generation 

Thrive only wants to do what the local church on its own is unable to deliver. So we run leadership courses for Christian young people, enabling individual churches to each send one or two young people to participate. We also oversee area-wide youth and children’s events.

 

Underpinned by our core values:

  • courageous dependence on the Spirit
  • making a Kingdom difference
  • dynamic and life-giving
  • purposefully encouraging & building others up
  • extravagant generosity

 

To find out more, contact Thrive using our contact form.