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MYCN Enable and Facilitate Youth Mission
Our mission is to enable local schools, churches and community projects to work together to reimagine church with young people. We facilitate a Learning Community in order that youth leaders and volunteers can come together for training, encouragement, prayer and support as they build for the future.
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Sorted
– a missional youth church in the heart of Bradford…
Sorted is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. We are a Church Army project and part of Leeds Diocese as a youth church with a Bishops Mission Order.
Sorted began life...
…in 2003 in North Bradford as Andy & Tracy Milne sensed a calling to get alongside young people and pioneer a youth church. The vast majority of young people in Bradford 10 and Bradford 2 have little or no church background; the local area includes two tough council estates with big social issues and areas that were inside the top 1% of deprivation in the UK.
Sorted team spend lots of time...
…simply hanging with young people in schools, on the streets and in the parks looking for people of peace; listening to problems and stories over a game of football or whilst sat in a school lunch club. As trust forms, groups are formed in homes, playgrounds and church halls through a mix of fun and friendship as a new Christian community begins to slowly take shape. The work includes loving and serving young people, doing life together and addressing their needs by discussing both life issues and the good news of Jesus in ways that are designed to be relevant to their needs and culture.
Sorted’s weekly pattern:
…they meet for 2 big activity sessions (one on BD2, one in BD10) each Friday evening, then for mid week small groups and finally a weekly worship service. Young people chose which bits they want to attend – some only take part each Friday, serving their peers by making a positive contribution to the activity session and hearing a testimony to invite them to ponder whether God is real and what difference this makes. Others seek to question and explore faith at a deeper level through involvement in small groups. Others push further by taking the plunge into a life of faith and discipleship as they meet to worship and discover how God can begin to transform our lives. Sorted meets weekly as a series of ‘stages’ and young people can attend one, two or all of these different stages depending on their level of relationship both with God and Sorted.
Coming out of the pandemic...
…Sorted is rebuilding its groups. The 2 Friday evenings groups and the worship service are growing in number again on the back of school’s work and summer provision. There is a buzz of excitement about the future after the slog of the pandemic! There is a flourishing young adult group with plans in place to start new small discussion groups once a new pioneer youth worker has been appointed.