What Churches do for Youth, Children and Young Adults
Equipping youth and children
To find out more, connect with TBY #connect page
To find a Church Youth Group #youthgroupchart
FOR YOUTH:
- Worship nights for young people #TBYconnect
- Take it Back worship & prayer nights #events page
- Youth Alpha
- Summer Camps: Limitless (Elim)
- Summer Camps: Luminosity (New Wine)
- Summer Camps: Newday (AOG)
- Summer Camps: Satellites (Youthscape)
- Sports clubs: Football Club age 14-16s Wellspring Pentecostal Church, Welling
- Sports clubs: Table Tennis for youth @ Christ Apostolic Church Sat 11.00-17.00 T: 07757 087277 £10pcm
FOR CHILDREN:
- Summer Camps for Children/Youth
- CRiBS Moving Up programme at Primary Schools
- Erith Deanery Moving Up transition programme to Secondary School
- Light Parties at Hallowe'en #connect with TBY
CHRISTIAN ORGANISATIONS in Bexley for youth and/or children in/out of school:
- CRiBS: Christian Resources in Bexley Schools
- School Pastors - at Bexleyheath Academy and after school in Bexleyheath
- Clock Tower Project - street based after school in Bexleyheath #TBYconnect
Counselling, mentoring and specific support groups
- CRiBS Mentoring via Secondary Schools
- TLG Mentoring via Primary Schools
- Counselling for children under 12, teens and adults at Wellbeing Counselling, Wilmington
- Free Children's Counselling age 10-17 or 18 if in school at Counselling Matters Bexley
- Finches (Families in Need of a Chat) - a safe and fun environment for primary age Autistic Children, their siblings and families - Thursdays 16.00-18.00 at New Hope Church
- GOTS (Girls on the Spectrum) - Supporting Autistic Girls and their families throughout the diagnosis process and beyond
Equipping youth leaders
- WhatsApp group – to connect Youth Leaders <join the WhatsApp group> #connect page
- Renewal evenings
- Training events including first aid, safeguarding, food safety
- Circulating jobs
- Connect youth groups to meet or attend summer camps
- Other benefits of being networked with other youth leaders
Young adults
These are groups or meetings specifically for young Children adults or where they are particularly present. #FINDAYOUNGADULTSGROUP
If your Church has a group which is not listed, please contact us #contactpage and we’ll include it.
How did TBY start?
Transform Bexley Youth (TBY) began when two churches ran a Youth Alpha (YA) course together in 2003, and the youth group that resulted formed the team for a Welling wide Youth Alpha in 2004 with 4 churches and a weekend away.
With youth discipleship groups growing, the model was perpetuated wider across Bexley with courses in 2006 and 2007 with young people from Sidcup, North Heath, Bexleyheath and Welling, and the youth leaders from 6 churches didn’t want to stop meeting together, so they called themselves Transform Bexley Youth and met periodically to pray, plan and collaborate, including running further YAs in 2009, 2010, 2011 including one in a secondary school, and further since.
Since then, there have been several iterations of joint youth worship events (The Furnace, Transform, Ignition), weekends away, Youth Alpha courses, a 24hr lock-in, a secondary schools week with a Youth for Christ band, encouraging Christian Unions to form in schools, attending summer camps together and Running Late in a night club in Bexleyheath.
TBY is now the Youth Hub in TBB, and links youth groups, and youth leaders together where they can do some things better together than separately.
We can signpost young people from churches without youth groups to somewhere that will help them to grow in their faith and make friends with other Christian teenagers, including finding Christians in their school, and access training for themselves to lead others.