Read more …St Benet's Chaplaincy Project

We are an evangelistic organisation committed to taking the Good News to every young person in South Norfolk and North Suffolk.  All of our projects are based on a 4D approach where we seek to Demonstrate the Christian Faith, Declare the Gospel, give an opportunity for Decision or Disciple young people. We work with local churches to support their outreach efforts and provide Prayer Spaces in schools amongst other things.

Our objective is to contribute to a deepening understanding and acceptance of the Christian faith among young people by demonstrating acceptance and love and challenging perceptions regarding young people.  We aim to enhance young peoples lives and local communities by working with young people to build self awareness, acceptance and empathy and to support others in churches and schools doing this work.

We work with rural youth in isolated communities to provide support and activities...

• working with local churches and other agencies to provide activities which reduce anti-social behaviour, such as Light Night events over Halloween and regular youth cafes in our towns and villages

• supporting rural churches to run activities and youth cafes enabling them to engage with local youth, assisting with setting up activities, overseeing , training volunteers and managing H&S and child protection.
• working in high schools to support students and staff -- specifically by running lunchtime clubs and prayer spaces and providing informal mentoring.  We work with marginalised young people in the schools who find it hard to integrate. We also co-ordinate the St Benet's Multi-Academy Trust chaplaincy project, working with local churches to provide chaplaincy teams in one high school, two junior schools and lots of primary schools!

During term time we work with other organisations to run 4 youth cafes from church buildings in Banham, Diss, Burston and Thetford

During term time we run lunchtime clubs weekly in 3 high schools (Thetford, Diss, Harleston) and 3 junior/primary schools (Diss, Dickleburgh, Harleston)

Termly we run a youth worship event called 'Encounter'

Annually we run Prayer Spaces in up to 2 schools (as above)

Annually we partner with other local Youth for Christ centres to run a camp based at Sizewell Hall in Suffolk for up to 60 young people.

 

As a Christian organisation we believe in*...

1. The one true God who lives eternally in three persons - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
2. The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
3. The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God-fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
4. The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
5. The incarnation of God's eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ - born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
6. The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
7. The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
8. The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
9. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
10. The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers - given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
11. The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.

MISSION STATEMENT OF YOUTH FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL

To participate in the body of Christ in responsible evangelism of youth, presenting them with the person, work and teachings of Christ and discipling them into the Church.

VISION STATEMENT OF YOUTH FOR CHRIST IN BRITAIN

We're about seeing young peoples lives changed by Jesus

*basis of faith of the Evangelical Alliance

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Integrate Youth for Christ is the next phase in the growth of local Christian youth work that had been formerly happening in the south Norfolk and north Suffolk areas (Upper Waveney Valley) for over 30 years.

In the mid 80's a group of people set up a local summer camp for Christian youth and their leaders - the camp became known as South Norfolk Christian Camp at Sizewell Hall - or SNOCCASH, run by Roger Pye - one of Integrate Youth for Christ's founding trustees.

intRgr8 (the forerunner to Integrate Youth for Christ) was conceived after Jonathan & Steph Richardson spent a week working at SNOCCASH. The camp was a fantastic way for local Christian young people to get together and develop relationships between themselves and with God. After the camp they felt there was an opportunity to carry on the work throughout the year by getting young people together from different churches and youth groups during the year as well, hence the name. intRgr8 was formed as a wholly voluntary organisation in 2000.

Over the years intRgr8 ran a wide range of events including worship music workshops, team building challenges, concerts and gigs, a Christmas party and a good number of intRgr8 Celebrations. The Celebration events took  the form of joint youth services hosted by a range of different churches, including the Bramerton Group (CofE), DC3 (Now We are Hope), The Vine Church (Eye), and New Life Church (Banham) - all of these have brought together youth musicians from the different churches to form a band to lead the worship.

As intRgr8 grew we started running various missions in the local high schools using Youth for Christ Mission Teams. It was as a result of running these, the need for paid staff, and the need to raise funds that we started taking the steps to turn the voluntary intRgr8 into the formally founded charity Integrate Youth for Christ - commissioned by British Youth for Christ in October 2009.

We were formally recognised as a charity in Feb 2010, and appointed Steph Richardson as our part time Centre Director. Since then we have grown out of our first office in the Diss URC and now have a much larger office in Diss Methodist Church. We now employ four more part time workers and have greatly increased our work with churches and schools, launched our termly youth worship event, Encounter, as well as taking over the former Snoccash camp to become Integrate Youth for Christ Camp and then partnering with other local Youth for Christ centres to become Encounter Camp.
 

We are a voluntary organisation and we rely on financial support from individuals and churches. If you would like to support the work we are doing, there are many ways that you can do so.

If you can give either a one off financial gift, or a regular gift then please download the form below and send it in to us. Regular gifts, however small, are the best way to support us as an organisation as they give us a secure financial basis.

You might also like to consider arranging a sponsored event (you can download an official sponsor form from this page). Please do let us know what you are planning and how it goes so we can put some information on the website.

Please consider adding Integrate Youth for Christ to your will - a legacy gift will help us continue sharing the gospel with young people long into the future.

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If you are a UK taxpayer we can increase your giving by reclaiming 25p for every £1 you donate.  To use gift aid donate via the Stewardship link below or use the 'Gift Form' above to make a declaration.

We accept donations using the Stewardship website.  You can make a one off donation immediately or set up a monthly amount. Even if you are not a Stewardship account holder you can donate via this means to help us reclaim tax via gift aid.

Simply by shopping online you can raise money for us - it costs you nothing and you can use all your usual online stores. Visit the Easy Fundraising web site to get started...

Another way to support us is by donating your old car! Simply follow the link below to the Give a Car website, follow the instructions on the site and make sure you specify Integrate YFC during your follow-up phone call from Youth for Christ. http://www.giveacar.co.uk/charities/youth-christ

There are also other ways you can support us as an organisation such as becoming a prayer supporter. Just email us at the email address below with your name and address and we will add you to our prayer supporter list, updating you regularly with any specific prayer requests and newsletters to let you know what we are doing.

Whether you are paid or voluntary, full time, part time or just occasionally work with young people; work in schools, churches or the community; or are just longing to see young people connect with God, Recharge is for you!

Come and recharge your spiritual batteries - spend time being encouraged, being resourced, getting plugged in to God’s power and chatting with one another.

Recharge takes place on once each half term on a Thursday morning at the URC church in Diss where our office is situated.

If you would like to receive dates and reminders (and don’t already), just send us an email with the words ‘Recharge reminder’ and we will add you to the list!