Youth and Children

The Youth and Children’s Committee consists of four members of the Moravian Church in the British Province:

1. The Youth and Children’s Officer
2. A member of the Unity Youth Committee
3. At least one bishop, agreed by the bishops
4. Members of the Provincial Board deputed by that Board.

District Youth Co-Ordinators are invited to at least one meeting per year.

The Committee’s function is:

• to promote youth and children’s work in the Moravian Church by encouraging fellowship and co-operation, suggesting and assisting methods of organisation, and supporting the training of leaders for their work by arranging provincial activities
• to support the youth and children’s activities of the Moravian Church and to foster spiritual growth and the ideals of Christian service; to advise on youth and children’s work and available resources
• to encourage ecumenical links with youth and children’s work of other denominations at all levels from congregation to provincial
• to foster safe working practices within the Moravian Church; to support the Youth and Children’s Officer and to provide an annual report to District Conferences.

Each month we invited people to write on a topic which engages children, families and young adults in their experience of faith.

We hope these articles, which were first published in the monthly Moravian Messenger magazine, will help facilitate you in growing your faith whether you are 3 or 34!

Our hope as YCC is to encourage each person who reads these articles to reflect a little more on whether this may be something they, or their family, might be interested in learning more about. Also, we hope it might be a resource for church communities to get some new ideas and inspiration on how to reach out to families and young people.

Thank you to all who provided the articles below.