Prayer at Youth for Christ

Pray with us for our local centres

Ashby

Given an opportunity to go into a school they haven’t been in since 2020. Pray that the school agree for them to go back in regularly and that they are a blessing to the school.

Cambridge & District

For young people attending the Youth Alpha course at the No.40 youth venue, as well as those who attend the Discover sessions (a space to talk about life and the Christian faith) running after No.40 drop-ins. For the recruitment of volunteers in the St Neots area to disciple young people who have recently been introduced to Jesus and for these young people to connect with existing church groups.

Gloucestershire

Helping at Cyprus Youth for Christ’s summer camp. Working with a local church to develop a holiday club with a local church in August. Running The Big Bash, an evangelistic event for 100+ in Gloucester – aimed at non-churched young people, this event will include fun activities and a gospel response, and local Christian young people are being encouraged to invite friends.

Heartland

Started supporting a local church with their afterschool clubs for primary and secondary school ages. Have been asked to run a new youth club off the back of a recent Youth Alpha course. Pray for volunteers to step up and for finances to take on another staff worker.

Inverclyde

Running a new wellbeing youth drop-in on Wednesday afternoons – Dare 2 Hope, with extra sessions running over the summer. This group is running in an area of deprivation. Pray that the young people will engage with this provision and encounter Jesus.

Isle of Wight

Taking a large group of non-churched young people to DTI festival in August, hosting four outreach BBQs across the Island, running an Alpha taster assembly for year 10 in a local high school and inviting them to a full Alpha series in September, and running a youth weekend away in Oct. All of these engage heavily with non-Christian young people.

Ivybridge

20th Anniversary Celebration Evening on Saturday 26th September. Currently co-ordinating a strategic review with stakeholders and hoping for new ideas and partnerships. Please pray for the IYFC Trustees and Staff in this. Also taking young people to Satellites Youth Festival in August (6th–11th). Pray for engagement and a positive response to Jesus, for the logistics and for the team.

Kenilworth

Update: Praise God for our Why I Believe events. Dr Sharon Dirckx spoke to around 360 students across two schools on “Am I just my brain?” and to 60+ people at our evening event on “God, evil and suffering.” At both, many stayed behind to ask further questions. These events clearly spark deep reflection in young people as they explore identity and purpose. One parent even came to our evening event with big questions and left with two books to keep seeking answers.

Kingsbridge

Running a youth club that has recently reached 30 unchurched young people after prayer for numbers. Young people are hearing about Jesus each week, but behaviour can be challenging. These young people are being invited to an evangelistic event in June with a Christian rap artist.

Llandudno

Update: Give thanks that the centre have recently reconnected with people they worked with 10-15 years ago who now as adults are following Jesus!

Llandudno have a new chair of trustees, please pray for him in his role. They are also about to hire a part time youth worker, please pray that God brings the right person.  God’s call is upon them to do more schools work and are in the process of creating a mobile youth pod – a horsebox kitted out with youth activities and resources. This means they will be doing less youth clubs but are offering local churches the use their state-of-the-art youth hub building to run youth groups throughout the week for free. Pray that the churches will take up this offer.

North Breckland

Relationships with young people to grow through their schools’ outreach and weekly youth clubs. The recruitment of a new staff member. Encounter summer camp in July where young people have the opportunity to hear the gospel and meet Jesus.

North-East

Update: Over the past 18 months, we have hosted 7 ID Youth events across the region, seen more than 750 young people attend, and celebrated 29 first-time decisions to follow Jesus! We’ve heard countless stories from local youth leaders about growing confidence in their young people, renewed hope, deeper faith, and genuine transformation in young people’s lives.

Phase Trust

The young people they engage with are at risk of or involved in exploitation. They can also present challenging behaviour. Phase Trust connects the young people to a local church with strong youth provision and opportunities to hear about Jesus, such as Youth Alpha series.

Swadlincote

Have potential opportunity to run a youth café using a local building which would be a new partnership with a local church and an ideal place. Pray for finance for this to be possible. Have also recently given out Bibles to weekly youth club.

Taunton

Fruitful weekly mentoring and chaplaincy sessions with young people in both school and community settings. The building of a youth community hub in the local area to have God’s provision and favour.

Wycombe

Kingdom fruit in the two schools the team have recently started supporting, and favour with another school they are waiting to hear from in regard to support. Thank God for the growth and strengthening of local CU groups and pray for the Youth Alpha series they are going through. The recruitment of a new staff member.

Wyre Forest

Taking a group of young people to Satellites youth festival on the 6–10th August. Pray for them to meet Jesus and have their lives changed in a powerful way.

Here are some other ways you can engage in prayer…

REGENERATE – Regenerate is a simple, powerful space to come together in prayer for young people across Britain. Every other month, we gather online to seek God, intercede, and believe for Him to move powerfully in this generation.

BATTLE PLAN – A prayer resource to help you pray into seeing young people in your community come to know Jesus.