Our Objectives for doing Detached Youth Work are to:
- show young people Christian love and welcome
- go out into the community and meet young people where they are
- build relationships with young people
- listen and journey with the young people
- empower young people to use their voice in their communities
- do activities that build up self-esteem and help young people identify their gifts and strengths, and empowering them to use them e.g. video, music, art, craft
- build and develop key skills e.g. leadership amongst the young people
- get the local churches and para-church organisations working co-operatively
- offer a place and space for them to meet and grow in relationship with God
The Vision for doing Detached Youth Work
Wyde’s vision for doing Detached Youth Work is to work with all young people. We want to take the love of Jesus out to the marginalised and the exclude. We want to go out, to meet them in their space, go to the places that they hang out, places where they meet with friends, and the places where they maybe accused of making trouble.
Our initial vision is to go out on to the streets and into the parks and others areas where young people are, set up a detached youth work team and work with young people there. Ultimately our vision is to have a bus that can be taken out to these places and provide a safe place for them to come and to share. As with all youth ministry our emphasis will be on building relationships and getting alongside the young people, helping them to realise that they are loved and accepted for who they are.
We are seeking to empower young people, to give them a voice in the community, helping them to feel like they are a significant part of it. We will work in partnership with them to develop their potential, grow, and develop projects with them.
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