Update from Matthew on front end youth work and what is being planned in the lead up to Christmas holidays.

Christmas outing has been arranged for December and the young people who were at the weekend away earlier in the year are excited to get together again.

A Christmas party has been arranged with the slightly younger children, they have had a high attendance since September and they are keen to get involved on Sunday mornings.

Illuminate is having good discussions and the children there are keen to listen and take part as well.

Young adults have kept the same group this term and they continue to have good numbers. One-to-one is showing good progress and has lead to good discussions.

Riverbank are on hold with restart of SU. The head teacher was waiting to get more consent forms back, so that the group can get started. Football is restarting next week and the interest has been good. SU will be busy, with 3 groups running back to back in the lunch time. 

Our latest newsletter is now out and available here. This issue, we catch up on all goings-on in the ministry as we have adapted to various degrees of lockdown, and highlight a few points for prayer.

You can also catch up with goings-on at our Facebook and Instagram pages, where you can also find regular posts including Bible Studies for teenagers.

Please pray for Matthew, the volunteers working with him, and most importantly the young people that they reach.

Meet our youth worker Matthew Hamilton. Matthew hails from Newtownards, County Down in Northern Ireland. Matthew is related to Steven Hamilton who was very much the pioneer of our ministry’s initial work in Tillydrone.

The Cage is in action at Seaton Primary Car Park in partnership with Seaton Community Church and the Outreach Bus project, every fortnight on Monday evenings, during the winter months. Also at St Machar Academy after Easter until the October break in term time. and other events like Fusion at Deeside.  We urgently need more team volunteers to prevent events being cancelled, so please consider whether you can help out, and pray that the team get a good response from young people as they take the Cage out. See Outreach section at top for more detail.