Methodist Circuit Welcomes Gap Year Workers

The Beverley Methodist Circuit, with churches in Toll Gavel, Norwood, Walkington, Tickton and Bishop Burton, is pleased to be hosting two gap year workers starting in September.

We are delighted to be able to welcome, Charlene, a young lady from Germany who will be supplementing our youth work team until the end of July 2011, working with our existing youth work activities but also looking at what else we are able to offer young people in the Beverley area.

We hope that Charlene will also be able to supplement the work that we are involved in, and that has shown positive results, at Longcroft school. This gap year placement has been organised and facilitated through ‘Time For God’.

The Methodist Circuit is also pleased to be able to host a part time gap year worker as part of the Methodist Church’s ‘One Participation Programme’, a scheme set up ‘to give young people the opportunity to work for a year in their local churches and districts in creative projects that help to show Jesus to others.’

We are pleased that Ashley will be joining us to develop a programme looking at how people share their faith in the work place. He will also look at how we share this information with young people who are either already in the work place or will soon be employed, helping them to share their faith and letting them know that they are not the only Christians out there in the working world.

Both workers will be based alongside our full time youth worker Peter Barley, who has recently completed his initial three year contract and has accepted a three year extension. The youth worker team is based out of our office at the Toll Gavel United Centre.