ONE Opportunity - North East
Welcome to ONE Opportunity North East section! We are a Co-ordinating team of three: Helle Sewell, Sarah Walton and John Boyd, eager to invest in young people and have been doing so for the past two years. We are keen to enable young people to work out their discipleship through their projects. ONE Opportunity is a scheme for young people, in the Methodist Church, supported by the Regional Forums of the Methodist Learning Network.
The scheme is for young people aged 16-23 years and offers a salaried position of 3 hours per week for 1 year in a project that will enhance life and mission of their local church. With help from their Project Enabler and Mentor, every young person can work out their discipleship in new ways.
All the young people attend an induction day and three residential weekends during the year as part of their commitment which enables them to be part of a community of young people learning, growing and reflecting together.
Once the church has identified a young person, the next step is to discern their skills and work with them to develop a possible project. The project should meet a real need of the church or community. We are asking for a contribution of £550 towards the cost 3 training weekends. The District will pay the young person’s salary for 3 hours a week at living wage rate.
We recommend that you talk to the ONE Opportunity Co-ordinating team as soon as you are able, so that we can advise you on forming your project, setting it up and applying for a place. We would very much like to meet face to face with church teams and individual applicants prior to the application being made. We can then ensure that all concerned are aware of the commitments and what is being asked of you. We want to invest in young people and hope you do too!
There is a capacity for a ONE Opportunity project in every Circuit in the North East for next year, starting in September 2019. If you would like to know more please contact:
Helle Sewell, coordinator1oppne@gmail.com
Sarah Walton, info1oppne@gmail.com
John Boyd, boydj@methodistchurch.org.uk
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