What is the EEA Youth Network?

Mission

Networking youth workers and young leaders in Europe for prayer, encouragement, spiritual growth and training.

Vision

So that every young European has the opportunity to respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ, be established in a local church and mobilised for mission.

Strategy

Our key strategies are to do with networking and partnership, stimulating biblical thinking, leadership development and training, and mobilising young people for evangelism and mission.

Values

• Evangelism - encouraging strategies to help reach every young person in every community

• Local church youth ministry - our focus is the development of effective church-based ministry committed to reach the young people of their community

• Prayerful dependence - unless the Lord builds the house, the labourers labour in vain (Psalm 127v1). We freely and joyfully acknowledge our total dependence on Him and His grace

• Indigenous leadership – we are committed to encouraging and training youth workers and young leaders of vision, integrity and passion to reach the youth of their nation

• Partnership - Building relationships and mobilising youth workers, churches and agencies to greater common effort and to reduced fragmentation. We believe that evangelical Christians are stronger together – that togetherness both glorifies God on earth and helps the world to know that Jesus is sent from the father (John 17v17-21)

Objectives

• To network youth workers towards strategic partnerships

•To encourage and stimulate biblical thinking about youth ministry and evangelism to youth

•To identify leadership development and training needs of youth workers and work with others to meet them

•To stimulate prayer for the needs of European young people