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What if evangelical youth ministry has got it all wrong?

By Martin Saunders is the Director of Satellites, a new youth event helping young people to put God at the centre of their lives. His new book We Are Satellites, is out now, published by SPCK. 2017-07-18T00:00:00

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Like many other people reading this magazine, I’ve invested well over a decade of my life into youth ministry. And while I’m increasingly uncomfortable with the label, there’s no doubting that I’ve done so as part of a broadly evangelical movement. Some key phrases seem to sum up that approach: we want to “reach and keep” teenagers; to “make disciples”; see them “filled with the Holy Spirit” and ultimately to get them to move from being “unchurched” to “churched”. 

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