At Jamberoo Anglican Youth, our goal is to grow mature disciples of Christ, to serve the local and global church. Every Friday during term time, we gather between 7-9pm for fellowship around God’s word. Between the small faithful team of leaders, and the energetic enthusiastic teenagers, there’s usually 30-35 people each week that enjoy meeting together.

There’s a wide range of people, from life-long Christians, to youth who’ve never heard of Jesus before stepping onto our church grounds. Often these people are invited by a friend, or sometimes they’ve just heard there’s a Christian group that meets every Friday, and they come along to find out what Jesus is all about.

Youth group is a space for any and every high schooler to dig deep into God’s word, ask hard questions, wrestle with complex ideas, and ultimately start and/ or deepen their relationship with Jesus.

Psalm 119:9 says:

How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
    By living according to your word.

We seek to teach and model this verse on Friday nights, and indeed our whole lives.

Please partner with myself and the Jamberoo Anglican Youth leaders as we seek to bring God’s word to bear on the lives of the people that walk through our doors. Each one is precious in God’s sight, created in his image, and he loves them so much that he sent his son to die for them. May we view our youth with the same love Jesus has for them.

Brad Vidilini

There are times when the best way to state a truth is by means of paradox, and Mark 10 describes Jesus doing just that. He could have preached long sermons, but instead, He gave us these five important lessons that can be expressed in five paradoxical statements.

There are many things going on in Mark 10 and Jesus’ teachings include Marriage and Divorce (1-12), acceptance of others (13-16), the dangers of wealth (17-31), His death and resurrection (32-34), the request of James and John (35-45) and the vision of blind Bartimaeus (46-52). But the underlying theme is how we can be Great Followers of the Lord

Jesus. That can only happen when we see the incredible mercy of God!

Tony Galea