I have a friend who plans and builds hospitals. He’s an excellent businessman. He’s helping to bring health and wholeness to the world. He sees particular needs among the homeless and young people, so he uses his business skills and gives
I know a young woman who just finished her degree in journalism. She’s a good writer and story-teller. She sees particular needs among young people and women and she is using her skills to help raise awareness in those areas.
In part one of this
This isn’t the part of the article where we tell you that what God really wants is for you to become a youth minister or missionary.
Now, it could be that you need to become a youth minister or missionary. But it very well could be that you become a teacher or an estate agent, or a filmmaker because some of us are sent to proclaim the gospel as our vocation, but many of us are to live out the gospel as we seek to bring healing, regeneration, beauty, compassion, mercy and grace into our everyday lives. Many of us are called to be senders, enabling God’s work to go forth around the world. You could be the person in the shelter helping homeless women or you could be the business man or woman in the background who gives generously so that the homeless can be cared for.
Or, you might get a job and earn a wage to provide for your family, and engage in God’s work through volunteering. Your paid job may not be how you get to work out your calling and vision.
As you learn and grow you’ll keep noticing that broken place in the world, and your heart will get most excited about how you can help meet that need. At this point you’ll need to be asking the most practical question of all- what training will it require if I am going to meet this need?
Once you begin to get a vision for who you are sent to, then you can start to explore what job or role would help accomplish the vision. Do I need a degree? Do I need an apprenticeship? Who can mentor me?
Are you fifteen and nearing exams? Push yourself to have as many experiences as you can outside of your comfort zone. Start noticing what moves your heart. Mostly, practice hearing from God and obeying in the small things to prepare yourself to be able to hear Him in those big decisions.
Are you picking A-Level options? Start thinking about who or what problem might God be calling me to? What would I need to do, with my skills and passions to make a difference in that area?
Are you finishing school? Consider taking a year out to explore your future, grow deeper in your faith and learn youth ministry skills. At Reign Ministries we offer a 9-month Gap Year programme that can help you focus in before you pursue further training.
This is a 2-part series: Part 1: Who am I called to be? and What does the world need? >> Part 2: What will it take to reach those people or meet that need? and What training will it require?
Categories: Youth Ministry Resources
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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