Aug 12, 2026 · 33 min · 12 segments
Sam is a youth worker who wanted to reach thousands of students across 11 schools in his area – within the schools themselves. Impossible? Maybe not when you tap into the "best-kept secret" network of…
Simon WenhamHost
Dave HutchingsHostAndy BannisterHostIn an organization like Youth of Christ, which is, I think, the biggest missional body to young people outside of the church as an organization of 60 centers across England, Scotland and Wales, and has been going for 75 years, was founded by Billy Graham.
And you still have a lot of centers that are doing things like pool tables, table tennis tables, skate parks, detached work, all that sort of thing.
But a lot of the models that were still rooted in the 80s and 90s were just far too dated for today.
How many of the young people in your area do you actually have meaningful contact with? And then frequency of mission opportunity.
And by that, I just mean an opportunity to talk meaningfully about faith and the big questions to young people for at least an hour.
And so I wanted to create a model that that was fluent and efficient and worked in a school's context where you could actually talk about faith matters to large, large, large, large, large numbers of young people a lot, like every week.
stop dealing with tens and twenties and start dealing with hundreds and thousands was the mantra.
Um, and so, uh, I set about trying to build the most disruptive model possible that was efficient.
In an organization like Youth of Christ, which is, I think, the biggest missional body to young people outside of the church as an organization of 60 centers across England, Scotland and Wales, and has been going for 75 years, was founded by Billy Graham.
And you still have a lot of centers that are doing things like pool tables, table tennis tables, skate parks, detached work, all that sort of thing.
But a lot of the models that were still rooted in the 80s and 90s were just far too dated for today.
How many of the young people in your area do you actually have meaningful contact with? And then frequency of mission opportunity.
And by that, I just mean an opportunity to talk meaningfully about faith and the big questions to young people for at least an hour.
And so I wanted to create a model that that was fluent and efficient and worked in a school's context where you could actually talk about faith matters to large, large, large, large, large numbers of young people a lot, like every week.
stop dealing with tens and twenties and start dealing with hundreds and thousands was the mantra.
Um, and so, uh, I set about trying to build the most disruptive model possible that was efficient.
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