Summer Camp
Our annual Summer camp where youth from all around the state gather together to grow in their relationship with God and have fun while doing it.
PYAF
Presbyterian Youth Annual Forum
PYNSW is a committee of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. PYC (Presbyterian Youth Committee) comes together at the PYNSW Annual Forum to meet with its stakeholders. It is a place where the stakeholders can hear from the PYC about what PYNSW is doing and its direction.
But PYAF is primarily an opportunity for PYC to listen to its various stakeholders to make sure that they are doing what can best serve youth ministry in the PCNSW.
PYAF is also where new members of the PYC are elected.
PYC is a committee of youth leaders, ministers and elders who make sure PYNSW works on realising its vision. People join the committee for a three year term. The committee meets eight times per year for a couple of hours each time, to govern PYNSW as it seeks to achieve its goals.
- Annual gathering of stakeholders and PYC
- Reporting
- Future direction
- Elect new members to PYC
- 3 year commitment
- Hear from stakeholders.
- A voice from local church youth ministries to PCNSW Assembly
Meetings were held 18/3/2025 or 19/3/2025 (7pm-8pm on zoom).
There are no dates set for PYAF 2026 at time of writing.
Regional Camps
PY helps churches in regional NSW to organise and run camps.
We are always keen to hear from groups who would like to explore starting up a camp in their region. Get in touch using the form below!
In 2024, we helped with the following camps (dates for 2025 TBC):
- Northern Rivers
- Mid North Coast
- Northern Inland
- Hunter
- Southern Rivers (Youth Big Day Out)
- Northern Rivers (had a youth day)
- Mid North Coast (TBC)
- Northern Inland (TBC)
- Hunter (TBC)
- Southern Rivers camp at New Dunesk
- South Coast (TBC)
KYCK
Many PCNSW churches take part in this great ministry.
KYCK 2025 Dates
Weekend 1: 11-13 April
Weekend 2 & Online: 25-27 April
Weekend 3: 2-4 May
Weekend 4: 26-28 September
We hope to encourage and build up many youth and local churches through this.
In 2025, we would like to continue the practice of visiting the youth groups that are attending KYCK.
Please let us know if you’re going to KYCK, and which weekend, so we can come and say hi, and if other churches want to go along to KYCK but don’t have enough people attending, we can introduce you.
PY Encourage
PY Encourage is an initiative started in 2019. It is a gathering of youth leaders where people can be trained, meet new leaders, and share strategies for doing youth ministry better.
This happens once a term in Sydney rotating through the various areas of Sydney, and once a year in regional areas.
The purpose of PY Encourage is to gather youth leaders, to train them in skills to help them serve the youth and to build relationships across churches and youth ministries.
Through this we want to build a network where youth ministries can share resources, e.g. bible studies, training materials, activities, where youth leaders have many more people who they can turn to, so that they can encourage one another, and pray for and with each other.
Eventually we also want to encourage youth ministries to work together in combined events and combined camps.
Once a term meeting in Sydney.
Once a year in regional areas.
- Training
- Gathering
- Meeting new people
- Network to share resources
- Studies
- Training
- Activities
- Direction and thoughts
- Encourage one another
- Work together
Dates for 2025
Term 1 – Eastwood (Captivate Hub) – Tuesday 25/2/25 7pm-9pm
Term 2 – PY Encourage Sydney (Christ College, Burwood) – Saturday 14/6/25 10:30am-5pm
Get involved!
Would you like to organise your own PY Encourage Express night? We would love to talk to you, and help you run it! It would be great to have groups of churches working together to run these leader training, fellowship and encouragement nights together.
Please fill in this form.
A webinar with skills you can use straight away. Your teenager is growing up in a uniquely challenging environment. Learn to have better, more biblical conversations, so you can face these challenges together.
Webinar #1: How to Connect to Your Teen’s Experience of Anxiety & Depression
Who was presenting at this seminar?
Sarah Bell, PYC (MC) ; David Phillips, PYNSW General Manager; Joanna Barlow, Psychiatrist ; Tony Ritchie, Clinical Psychologist; John McClean, Lecturer Christ College.
Webinar #2: How to Connect to Your Teen’s Experience of Social Media
Social media is a huge part of life for lots of young people. They find information, entertainment, connection, community and identity online. They are often producers as well as consumers. Social media can feel like a foreign country to some of us as parents and youth leaders. Join Talking Teen as we look at the reality of social media in the life of young people. We’ll look at some of the blessings of social media as well as the risks, and give some practical ideas about how to help young people follow Jesus in this area of life. Along the way, we’ll see that we there might be as much for us to learn from young people.