church life / faith and order
christian youth work training network
The Christian Youth Work Training Network is a network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. It links those who have responsibility for training and resourcing volunteer youth workers in the churches and Christian agencies of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Aims
- To foster and co-ordinate a broad alliance of churches and agencies engaged in youth work training.
- To identify and develop best practice in voluntary church-related youth work training.
- To resource churches and others to enable them to support, train and equip those working in this field.
What does the Network do?
The network convenes an annual 24 hour conference so that those responsible for youth work training in the four nations can meet face to face, consider current issues and undertake some training and development exercises for themselves.
Connect Conference 2008
The next Connect conference will be held at Luther King House, Manchester from lunch on Thursday 24 January to lunch on Friday 25 January 2008. Our guest speaker will be Nick Shepherd, who will be exploring faith and identity development of young people. Closing dates for bookings is November 23rd 2007.
Further details and a booking form are available from the Spectrum 
web site.
Who co-ordinates the Network?
There is a steering group currently chaired by Peter Fishpool, Chief Executive of Christian Education. Other members of the group at present are
- Andy Poole, Church of England DYO Manchester
- Louise Kenyon, Nazarene Theological College
- John Biggins, Youth Service RC Archdiocese of Liverpool
- Mary McGinty, CTBI Spectrum
Contact:
Peter Fishpool,
Chief Executive of Christian Education,
Christian Youth Work Training Network,
1020 Bristol Road,
Selly Oak,
Birmingham,
B29 6LB
Tel: 0121 472 4242
Fax: 0121 472 7575
