United Reformed Church
Contact: Jan Murphy
E-mail: cydo@urcsouthwest.org.uk
Website: http://www.urcsouthwest.org.uk/church-development/youth-and-children/
The Fellowship of United Reformed Youth (FURY) - SW Synod of the United Reformed Church.
Many local United Reformed Churches in the South West (particularly those within Devon) are struggling to relate to teenaged young people. New initiatives are being tried but these are aimed mainly at children rather than youth. Because of this fact more work is going on to help local Churches focus on the needs of teenagers as well as children. The main problem for local Churches seems to be the increasing lack of willingness on the part of adults to volunteer to work with teenaged young people - the loudest cry is for "more leadership". A growing phenomenon arising from this problem is that some Churches are looking for ways in which to raise the money to employ youth workers. This has led to much more work having to be done to help Churches understand good employment practice.
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