Missional Youth Church Network

THE MISSIONAL YOUTH CHURCH NETWORK (MYCN) is offering ways of effectively engaging young people across England. Here you can find out more about the Missional Youth Church approach, including its Explore resource and support for local leaders.

Missional opportunity

Churches can sometimes lack confidence in evangelising and discipling young people, but care deeply about the young people in their community.

MYC model how to build church with young people, and for young people. Missional youth church happens when local leaders and volunteer teams from local churches get alongside young people in schools and in the places where they live and hang out. Relating to young people with the love of Jesus, listening to the Spirit and to the young people themselves, they build community and share Jesus with the young people, so that discipleship and worship can take place.

Resource

MYC provide personalised support to the diocese, church or school wanting to explore a Missional Youth Community.

MYCN Explore resource is a 10-session, video-based resource to equip leaders and teams to engage unchurched young people and grow new worshipping communities with them. Explore takes an ‘in-depth’ look at key issues such as how to get alongside local young people, build relationships with young people, and empower and build community with them. Youth discipleship and worship are explored within the framework of a step-by-step approach to pioneering a new worshipping community. This resource will give a team a clear sense of direction, key learning, and the tools needed to develop church with young people in different contexts.

Young Leaders – a 10-session online resource to use with unchurched young people to develop character, calling and release gifting within the 5 marks of mission. Young Leaders to soft launch after Easter.

Impact

MYCN have pioneered 25 new worshipping communities for unchurched young people. The new worshipping communities have on average 40 young people.