Youth Evanglism Fund Sponsoring New Mission Projects

[Dave Roberts]

Young people in Coventry Diocese are about to blend their love for God with their love of ice-cream by opening an ice cream parlour, to give away ice-creams and host events for young people in the area who fancy a fun flavour of church life.

Meanwhile, in Chester Diocese a Christian Union wants to run the Sock Project to communicate God’s love to their school using sock puppets, running events and film-based discussions, and performing random acts of kindness in the school lunch hour.

These are two of 84 ingenious new evangelistic projects to receive a pump-priming grant of up to £3,000 from the Church of England’s Youth Evangelism Fund (YEF) in 2009. Half the fund is supported by the Archbishops' Council, the Henry Smith Charity, the Laing Family Trusts, and the Jerusalem Trust.

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[Ali Campbell]

Just to comment, Diocesan Youth Officers in the Diocese' for next year, have not yet had a "briefing" about the application process, and have not yet been sent the forms themselves . . . we are due to have a briefing in London at the beginning of December . . .