The aim of the Schools and Youth Project is to offer a quality Christian resource to secondary schools in Brighton and Hove.

We are currently involved in eight clubs in six different schools in the city. These lunch clubs are attended by a cross section of the school community – including many with no church background. We aim to offer students a safe, fun place to go where they can learn more about the Christian faith.

Each club follows a similar format: we start with an ice breaker which introduces the theme of the session; a game (usually with prizes); a clip from a recent film which illustrates a particular point; and a short ‘Bible bit’ often using a story that Jesus told in the gospels .

The lunch clubs we run often attract up to 30 young people. Most of these are regular attendees which enables us to get to know the young people throughout the year. Very often, the teaching we bring raises many questions which we endeavour to answer to help them in their personal journey of faith.

We would love to develop the schools work by starting lunch clubs in new schools and potentially offer after school clubs. To do all of this, we need more volunteers. If you would like to find out more about volunteering with the schools team, please get in touch.

For more information please email adele.waller@offthefence.org.uk or call 07770887385 / 01273 733732.

What's going on and where.

Here's a programme of all the School Lunch Clubs that take place each week in Brighton and Hove:

RED Hot Schools Update

During the recent summer term at schools our teaching followed a RED theme. Red sweets of many descriptions added to the fun as did games involving many red items including balloons, jammie dodgers, jelly and grapes!

Each week we centred our teaching round a different word ending in the letters “RED” tying in with the campaign to raise money for AIDS victims in Africa – see www.redcampaign.org

We started with a look at the story of Jesus turning the tables in the temple – seeing red at the injustice going on there, next we looked at the story of the feeding of the 5000 as we considered shared and our willingness to share what God has given us. We considered how the guests at the wedding in Cana discovered the truth about Jesus and ways we can do the same. We looked at how we are all treasured by God as we thought about the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet. We looked at the story of Joni Eareckson as we considered people we admired who rely on God and finally considered the story of Thomas as we shared with the students that we can be assured of our salvation.

All our teaching came from John’s gospel and during this term we were able to give away several Bibles to students.

Adele