Connect is a voluntary, ecumenical, Christian youth work charity, based in
Crediton, Chulmleigh, Holsworthy and Okehampton.
Connect workers are volunteer trainee youth workers, trained by our partner South West Youth Ministries (SWYM), and assisted by associate youth workers from various churches from within the local community.
Connect began out of a need local churches felt to reach out to young
people isolated across rural mid Devon by meeting them, in school, the one
place they all come together.
Our aims are to:
*Demonstrate Christ’s love for young people
*Offer support on behalf of Mid-Devon’s churches to the Community
College in each area in developing young people mentally,
physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially.
*Encourage young people to work out, own, and stand for their
Christian faith among their peers, in their school and community.
Connect workers get involved in a variety of work within their
particular school, including:
Lesson support in RE lessons and any other lessons in which they
have a speciality
Running the Christian Union and other lunchtime clubs
Getting alongside students in detached youth work during school hours
Planning and taking assemblies
Mentoring young people.
In the wider community, Connect workers continue the link with young people in the schools by getting involved in local church youth and discipleship groups and community youth clubs.
Connect is a voluntary, ecumenical, Christian youth work charity, based inCrediton, Chulmleigh, Holsworthy and Okehampton.
Connect workers are volunteer trainee youth workers, trained by our partner South West Youth Ministries (SWYM), and assisted by associate youth workers from various churches from within the local community.
Connect began out of a need local churches felt to reach out to youngpeople isolated across rural mid Devon by meeting them, in school, the oneplace they all...
