Summit Youth Group 

Summit is a church youth group for 12–15-year-olds that meets every second Wednesday of the month during term time from 5:45-7pm.  The sessions are a mix of Christian spiritual discussion, fun socials and trips, and special projects to help the local community and environment.   We are based out of St Christopher’s Church in Haslemere, however, we are often out in the local community and so locations are confirmed in each half term’s line up.  Our focus is on the health of our young people, not just their physical health, but also their spiritual, mental, moral, political, economic, and social health, as well as the health of the environment which also feeds back into their well-being.

 Aims of the Group

 
Spiritual Connection (Relationship with God) – It’s not just about being God smart, it’s about being God connected.  We aim to help the young people connect with God on a spiritual level. 
 
 Growing (Doing things together) – We will grow and bond together as a group through social outings and fun games.  There will also be plenty of opportunities to draw closer together and grow as a ‘family’ during the meaningful discussions and when out making a difference in the local community.



Worship (Being Part of the Church) – As the children grow in their faith, we will encourage them to become part of the wider church community and involve them in serving it. They may wish to write and read the intercessions or become an acolyte.

Serving (Helping Others) – We will be helping in the local community and environment.  What is close to each young person’s heart will help us to decide on the projects we will tackle as it’s important to find their passion points to create drive and meaning. Faith leads to action and action leads to faith. 



Safeguard & Support – A core aim of the group is to create a place of safety for these young people and to provide support.  This is going to be their space and we will abide by safeguarding rules and guidance to ensure it is a refuge and a healthy environment.

If you would be interested in hearing more, please contact Verity Sutherland, Children's & Families Worker (Older Children), - children@haslemereparish.org.
 

Upcoming Line-Up 

This term we are looking at making some changes to enable us to run two Summit sessions a month, one that will be more focused on community work or any other fun activities and outings.  The second Summit session will be a 'Summit Late' which will run after The Den youth group and will be focused more on spiritual discussion with food.  We want to utilise the Youth Alpha course material, which is made up of short engaging videos made for youth by youth, covering life's big questions and have a relaxed discussion around each one. For our upcoming community projects we will be doing a canoe litter pick and hope to work with the Community Fridge team.  We also have our Youth take-over service coming up later in the term and the Summit Sleep-out to look forward to at the end!