As ever, Cheltenham YFC are busy
working away in Pittville, Kingsmead
and Christ College. Each week we
work with approximately 200 young
people, of whom we work more closely
with 50 young people. Our schools’
work continues to include lunchtime
detached, after school clubs, PE
lessons and other work as required.
Over the next term we will also be
starting our youth prayer initiative
called ‘Underground’.
We are currently trying to recruit
twelve young people who we will train
in personal evangelism and in how to
lead a small prayer group. These
young people will start a prayer group
with their friends, praying for their
friends to come to know Christ. Our
hope is to recruit a generation of
young people praying for their friends
and sharing the gospel with them. It
will take a number of years to
establish ‘Underground’ and finding
the right young people to start with is
a key part of this process. Please pray
for us as we find the first group of
young people, and pray that God will
strengthen them and equip them in
what could prove to be a key work
amongst young people in the town.
Following on from the Annecy
Challenge last year, when we raised
£15,000, we are looking to recruit an
additional member of staff who can
head up our new sports project. Whilst
being involved in our regular work,
especially the PE lessons, the new
worker will be responsible for
establishing a multi-sport club for
young people where we will use sport
to engage them with the gospel.
Initially the club will be launched in the
Hatherley area with a view to
expanding to other sites in the future.
Trying to launch two significant
projects at similar times is quite
ambitious, not least as we need to
develop our income over the next few
years to make them both sustainable.
Despite this we are convinced God is
in both these projects and are excited
at all that he will achieve through
them. Our top priorities for prayer are
a new treasurer, strength and favour
to ensure we can make everything
happen in time for both projects,
increased income to allow us to
expand our work to help us reach
more than 200 young people each
week, and that young people will
come to meet and know the living God.
