How do you transition kids into youth group? How do you transition youth into young adults ministry?

A new year is beginning. We find ourselves hoping and praying that as term one begins, the new kids will just rock on up to youth group or turn up at our small group. We hope that it will just happen.

Sorry, but it won’t.

Young people don’t just transition themselves into a new group. Why not? Because it’s scary! In fact, no matter how old we are,... >> read more

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Join us for this combined worship service, bringing together Anglican and Baptist youth groups from all over Auckland for a service celebrating our unity in Christ.

The service will include prayers, the cathedral choir and taking communion together.

Our speaker is Blue (you may know him from Northern Easter camp) and with Dale Campbell and Northcote Baptist leading us in worship.

Join the event on Facebook for more details in the lead up to the event. >> read more

Going Further is a growing time for young adults in the Anglican & Presbyterian tribes in NZ. It's a week in community to consider God’s loving of us and living the Jesus way as you head into the year with your life, career, studies and church.

Following the risen Jesus personally and as part of his body – the church – is the call on our lives – but it is seldom straightforward. We know there must be more, but get distracted, overwhelmed and on occasions discouraged... >> read more

The Summit is a new event all about encouraging and equipping young adult ministries across our diocese.

Young adults are going through a major time of transition in their lives, and we have a wonderful opportunity to journey with them as they seek to make sense of their world. There are unique challenges and opportunities that come with working with young adults, and the Summit will be a chance to gather with others who share a passion for this generation: to discuss ideas, ask... >> read more

We have just a few campsites left, so make sure you register by Wednesday 12 February to secure your spot!

Join us for an epic weekend camping at Martin's Bay - just 1 hour north of Auckland on the beautiful Mahurangi Peninsula.

Pack your tent, togs & sunnies, and come along to relax, meet people, catch up with friends, explore Mahurangi, worship under the stars, and ponder what God's got in store for you in 2014.

It’s a great opportunity to get away... >> read more

Looking for resources for Christmas?
Resourced! has a range of ideas - games, studies, talks, prayers and more. As always, they have all been used with real live young people in real live Anglican youth groups and they have worked... so you know that they'll be good! Check them out here: anglicanyouth.org.nz/tag/christmas.

More resources are being added in the lead up to Advent, so make sure you like Resourced! on facebook to keep up to date with what's new. >> read more

What do you get when you combine the hospitality of St Margaret’s, the youth worship band of St Chad’s, the creative talent of Church of the Good Shepherd & St George’s and the preaching gifts of our young Anglican leaders and Dion Fasi?  An amazing worship opportunity for our youth!  Our scripture is John 6, ‘Jesus as the Bread of Life’.  We will look at how Jesus is the source of all that we need both now and forever and how we can share that life with others. As we running... >> read more

Keen to go to Parachute? Why go by yourself, when for just $6 you could go with ‘Anglicans @ Parachute’ and get a reserved tent spot, free breakfast, free tea, coffee and milo, and camp with Anglicans from all over the country.

If you’re keen, you need to do two things:

Buy yourself a ticket, they’re still so cheap!  – when you do, enter the group code KBROCO352138

Then, fill out and send in your ‘Anglicans @ Parachute’ individual or group... >> read more

Band of Brothers is an overnight event just for the boys!

It’s a massive sleepover for guys in year 7-13 at school. This year our theme is ‘Surviving the Wild.’ The life you are living right now, as you are becoming men, is a wild, hostile and unpredictable environment. At Band of Brothers you will hear from men of God who have survived the wild and from men of God who are still in the wild. They will be equipping you with the tools necessary to survive your journey through... >> read more