Hi, I am Kaitlyn Middlemass, and I have just started studying with Reign Ministries this year. I am 19 and from Edinburgh. I left school in early 2022 and planned to study with Reign, but during the summer, while working and participating in summer camps, I did not feel prepared to go back into studying that year, so I decided to take a gap year.
During my gap year, I attended summer camps as a member of the youth and worked full-time in between the camps; during that year, I was able to work alongside the leadership team in the church, enabling me to develop my leadership skills and get to know the kids that we have even better than I already did. While doing all that I was able to attend briefs and debriefs from our Monday night youth group and our leadership nights. By attending theses I was able to see a part of youth ministry that I had never seen before, which was an eye opener, and helpful to see what I was going into.
I am doing my placement in Gorebridge, just east of Edinburgh. As a part of my placement, I help run a youth night for our 11-18 year olds. The focus is to intentionally grow relationships with the youth that attend. We organise the activities based on where our youth are at, within their spiritual life. Sometimes, our nights can consist of a night of teaching, and through that night, we can answer any challenging questions that the youth might have, and overall, we can see the development of their spiritual growth.
God has had a real impact on the youth work during our summer camp last year; just before I had started the degree. We had 160 young people sign up for the five days, and over those five days, the young people got to hear different talks from the camp speaker. They got to listen to testimonies from other leaders and volunteers. On the Friday we give the youth an opportunity to take 15 minutes to themselves so they can think about what we have talked about over the week and see if they get the feeling that becoming a Christian is what is in their plan. After the 15 minutes the youth get the opportunity to stand up and declare that they are ready to live a life with Christ. At the end of the week last year we had 25 young people come to faith which was a fantastic outcome from the week.
Categories: Testimony
Updated: 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Hi everyone! I am Jamie Gurling and I started studying at Reign this year. I am 19 and from Glasgow in Scotland. I left high school in 2022 and I thought the next step was obvious, to go straight into further education, just the same as everyone else. So, I followed the norm, moved city […]
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Updated: 18 May 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
As a ministry we have been reviewing how we deliver the degree progamme in a way that fits both our vision and DNA, whilst still providing quality training for the next generation of disciple-making leaders. From September 2023 we implemented some changes and we are excited to see how God is going to lead us […]
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Updated: 26 Apr 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
“Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve – designating them apostles – that they might be with him and that he might send them out…” (Mark 3.13-14) Where do I start? I had just started my first real ministry role in […]
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Updated: 29 Mar 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Is Bigger Better? The bigger your youth group, the better, right? We get a special energy from the buzz of a crowd. We believe that when we’re connected to more people we’re able to have more impact. But is this really the case in youth ministry? Most of us have the feeling that this approach […]
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Updated: 22 Feb 2023 | Posted by: kmckinnon
If you were to attend one of our Expand Training Experiences you will hear our team talk about discipleship. That’s because it is the foundational to who Reign Ministries is. During our Expand: Online training you will learn the tools to help you be effective in your discipleship of young people. Watch the video below […]
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Updated: 8 Feb 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Where Is God Calling Me? I have a calling to youth ministry. But 30 years ago – I had no idea! I remember sitting in a marquee at a Christian music festival as a teenager, listening to a speaker talking about ‘Hearing God’s Call’. This was something I was wrestling with, so I figured that […]
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Updated: 8 Apr 2025 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Exciting news! Reign Ministries is excited to announce we have a new college we are linking with for an undergraduate degree! Moorlands College will be the new home for our degree students from September. For over 20 years, Reign Ministries has played a key role in the development of a youth pathway for an undergraduate […]
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Updated: 24 Mar 2025 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Learning from those that have gone before you. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” writes the wise King Solomon in Ecclesiastes. He saw that life can sometimes resemble a treadmill, where history simply repeats itself and continues in a loop. […]
Read moreUpdated: 16 Dec 2024 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
After a few years of considering this move, the trustees and leadership have decided the time is right to try and sell the building we affectionately know as “the moto” (in it’s former life it was a motorcycle sales and repair shop). This building has served the charity well over many years, as a base […]
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