Developing the leadership skills of black and minority ethnic youth
We have been developing new initiatives to help churches, youth workers and ministers to identify and nurture leadership skills in BME young people.
Inspiring Leadership
An annual two-month gap programme which seeks to encourage mainly Baptist young people of colour, between the ages of 18-23, to develop their leadership potential in Jamaica with the support of our Union’s long-standing partner, the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU).
Wonderful Youth
Biblical sessions to empower young people between the ages of 13 and 16 to become ‘the best that you can be’. Even though there is a vast number of resources on the Christian market to enable young people to reflect on their Christian faith, few (if any) intentionally enable Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnics to see their image reflected in the resources.
The latest edition of
Wonderful Youth has been written by contributors from Six Ways Baptist Church, Birmingham, John Bunyan Baptist Church, Oxford and Christian Aid. It considers the impact of climate change on Black and Brown communities. With the support of Christian Aid it also recommends how climate injustice can be mitigated.
Click here to download Wonderful Youth 2022: What does Climate Justice mean to you?
In the following video from the launch of
Wonderful Youth, the creators of the resource explain more about it:
Click here to
download the launch video to share in your church.
Previous editions of the resource are still available to download from our Resource Library:
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Wonderful Youth 2021 has four sessions on the theme 'Love, joy, peace and patience' - the first four Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5.
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Wonderful Youth 2019 is on the theme 'No Outsiders' using examples from Luke's gospel which show us a Jesus who welcomes, walks with and heals individuals.
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Wonderful Youth 2018, is based on five themes from Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus.