The Year Out is a Christian gap year programme for young people aged 17-25. Born out of our passion for youth work and evangelism, The Year Out is all about investing in you, enabling you to impact the lives of others as you learn to effectively share your faith in both word and action. It is a year full of opportunities to grow your faith, boost your confidence, and develop your gifting. You will leave the programme with greater clarity around your calling, more skills, and a greater passion for the gospel.
Whether it be skills, memories, friendships, or opportunities, The Year Out goes further than a typical gap year. It will see you placed with one of our 60 local Youth for Christ centres and supporting the ongoing youth work in schools, churches, communities, and on the streets. Each centre looks completely different, from big teams to small teams and from rural locations to cities. You could be doing one-to-one mentoring with young people, leading assemblies with your team, discipling young people in church youth groups, going to parks and meeting young people where they are at, and delivering lessons in schools.
Evangelism is what we are passionate about and each centre will help you grow in confidence to share the gospel with those you know and do not know. Whether you have shared your faith before or the idea of it worries you; you will be supported, trained, and mentored every step of the way.
During your time you will receive continual investment, training, and guidance, which will equip you to engage with and help transform the lives of young people. If you have a passion for Jesus and a heart for young people, this opportunity is one not to be missed as it’s a great way to serve God for a year and test a calling into youth ministry.
