What will this look like?

Our strategy - what will this look like?

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In order to meet these aspirations and emphases we will:

Continue to grow...

  • The number of Educational Activity Breaks;
  • The numbers attending SU Holidays and the range of Holidays;
  • The number of SU groups in schools, particularly grasping the opportunities in Primary schools;
  • The opportunities to tell Bible stories in schools (particularly around Christmas and Easter);
  • The number of range of types of Mission (including gaining a greater family focus);
  • The number of SU groups in schools; placing a new emphasis on outreach through the groups (especially equipping leaders to have an outward focus);
  • The number of Bible study groups for senior pupils;
  • The number of prayer events and prayer groups for young people across Scotland;
  • The numbers of young people involved in SU ignite.

 

Place a fresh importance on...

  • Exploring & trialing new ways of training in sharing faith, living as a Christian in school and putting faith into practice;
  • Strengthening the involvement of children & young people in planning and leadership of SU events;
  • Creating discipling relationships, including peer mentoring;
  • Exploring new ways of stimulating international vision and commitment to SU International.

 

Resource our minstry by...

  • Growing the prayer network to cover every school in Scotland;
  • Growing the numbers of volunteers, staff and Associate workers, Local Areas workers and Action Groups;
  • Growing the numbers involved on the Gap Year Programme;
  • Providing more and improved Bible engagement training, and supporting materials;
  • Equipping staff and volunteers to understand and take account of the family context.

 

Have six key projects

1. Exploring the Bible:

  • Bible Fresh: Promoting personal and corporate Bible engagement - We will strongly promote the Essential 100 project and particularly its youth version as a major plank of this project.
  • Review of Bible use - We will review our Bible engagement across the organisation, including provision of Bibles at SU events.

 

2. Creating a discipling / mentoring project which will equip and resource discipling relationships with young people

This is a major emphasis of the strategy involving something of a mindset change.

3. Reviewing and developing our training programmes

This project will build on the significant benefits that arise for children and young people who attend a number and range of SU events.  As part of this, it will create a curriculum for training that enhances development across our programmes.  This will also include establishing criteria for what following Jesus looks like for children and young people; and evaluating current provision of opportunities to respond to Jesus.

4. Reviewing and developing our Missions programme

We will explore different types of mission through a pilot project which will involve wider involvement with local churches and their communities and through increased numbers of teams serving internationally.

5. Reviewing our relationship with the local church and developing & improving communication with churches

We aim to enhance our relationship with churches through this strategy and part of that is reviewing that relationship with a particular emphasis on our role in training in local churches. We aim to keep churches better informed.

6. Working with churches to equip for engagement with local schools

We will encourage and equip churches to be fully engaged with their local schools, maximizing the opportunities provided by current legislation and practice.

 

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