For youth groups throughout Australia, the school holidays and the Easter period can be challenging times for connecting with young people. Hurstville Presbyterian’s youth group, Hurstville Young People Evangelising (HYPE), saw the gap between terms as an opportunity. HYPE runs on Friday nights for years 6-12, with a team of four leaders and around 8-15 youth depending on the night.
For many kids and youth around NSW, SRE is their only opportunity to hear about Jesus at Easter time. For long-time SRE teachers Janette and James, the joy of sharing Jesus – news far better than chocolate eggs and bunnies – never wanes. Currently serving at Copmanhurst Public School, Janette has been teaching SRE, initially alongside her husband David, for
Tom French is an experienced and gifted Bible teacher, who has been a speaker on PY camps numerous times. He’s currently a youth minister for a combined church youth group in Melbourne, and has worked and done talks for lots of big parachurch organisations in Australia. But even the most experienced givers of Bible talks had to start somewhere, and
When Jenni Greig started a PhD in 2011, she was busy, but she also had some newfound flexibility in her life, and she realised she could use it to help out with SRE in a local school. Jenni had a friend who coordinated SRE in a local public school in Bathurst, where they both live, so she was aware of
After finishing his ministry training, Keith McPherson began his first job as an assistant minister in a church in Tamworth in 2006. In the first two weeks of his job, he was thrown into coordinating SRE for two primary schools. He remembers, “I had never done anything like SRE before. And I basically took all the classes where I couldn’t
Despite the looming threat of the Omicron variant of COVID, PYNSW pushed ahead with running Summer Camp, and all agree – it was a roaring success! Youth from around NSW came together for fun and games, excellent Bible teaching, in-depth discussions, and a fantastic New Year’s celebration. While there were a couple of COVID scares, we thank God for protecting
