PYNSW – Presbyterian Youth
PYNSW exists to equip local churches to disciple young people and their leaders through training, special religious education (SRE), and camping.
Programme for 2021
Camping:
Summer Camp 2021
Save the date – PYNSW Summer Camp 2021 – 27/12/2021 – 1/1/2022.
Donate to PY to support sending people along to camp.
National Leaders Conference 2021
A one-day leaders conference where we think about “What does it mean to lead teenagers well?“.
Saturday November 20, 2021 – many locations around Australia.
More information: https://pynsw.org.au/nlc/
Camping:
KYCK 2021
Going to KYCK in 2021? Come and say hi: we had a PY lunch at KYCK this year!
Camping and Training:
Lead for Life Internship 2021
Spend the last week of the year (same dates as Summer Camp: 27/12/2021 – 1/1/2022) learning to understand the Bible better, enriching your relationship with God, and learning practical leadership skills, then spend 2022 involved in practical ministry in your local church, supervised by someone in your church.
Training:
PY Encourage
We want to see youth leaders at local churches well equipped, encouraged, and have the chance to build lasting friendships with other youth leaders. Are you leading a youth group, or interested in setting one up at your church? Come along to our PY Encourage (regional) and PY Encourage Express (City) events:
- PYEE#1 -Tuesday 23/2/2021 – Willoughby
- PYEE#2 – Tuesday 11/5/2021 – Como
- PYEE#3 – Tuesday 3/8/2021 – Ashfield
- PY Encourage Hunter – 2021 – Saturday 23/10/21
- PYEE#4 – 26/10/21 – Blacktown East
- PY Encourage Bathurst – 20/11/21 – Hub for PY NLC.
PY Annual Forum
Get involved in the future of PY by coming along to PY Annual Forum:
- PYAF21 – Saturday 27 March, 2021 10am-2pm at Ashfield Presbyterian Church
Training:
OMEC – Online Mentor Equipping Course
OMEC21 – details to be confirmed. We want to see youth leaders mentored well, and so we developed this course, to train people in how to be mentors to youth leaders. We are looking to run it in Sydney in the second half of 2021.
Training:
Timothy Partnership Certificate
We are running two semesters of Timothy Partnership Certificate again in 2021. Please pray for our students and our unit coordinators!
Japan Mission Vision Trip
Japan Mission Vision Trip – we are still working out what our timeline will be for the next Mission Vision Trip.
Read Think Act
Read Think Act studies are available to download and use at home:
History of Camping
We are currently working on a project exploring the history of Presbyterian youth camping in NSW: the Presbyterian Fellowship Union was first constituted in 1874, and so far we’ve found camping photos as early as 1909. Do you have photos or stories to tell from camping? We would love to hear them. Please let us know.