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Reaching Younger
Youth Ministry
Video Building from Ground Zero, a talk by Rachel Gardner at the Diocesan Conference 2021 explored why this might be the most significant moment for youth ministry in the church in the UK & how to respond. Rachel shared powerful stories and challenging statistics helping us think about how we can seek to grow youth ministry across the diocese.
Click the green ‘watch’ button above to view the talk (wait a few seconds for the page to refresh and the talk to appear).
Rachel Gardner
Rachel Gardner is the Director of Partnerships at Youthscape, responsible for pioneering new ways to engage young people in healthy relationships. Her background as a youth worker involved developing Romance Academy, a national project to promote healthy relationships with young people. A bestselling author of a number of books for young people, especially young girls, her work includes The Dating Dilemma: A Romance Revolution, and The Girl Deconstruction Project. Rachel is married to Jason and together they are involved with planting a multi- generational Youth Resourcing Church at St Luke’s, Blackburn, which is located next door to a vibrant Church of England Academy School.
