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Welcome to the website of North East Scotland Youth for Christ! Our mission is to take the Good News relevantly to every young person in North East Scotland. From Elgin to Montrose, and the Shetland Isles, we work directly with young people through events like Breathe and in partnership with local churches, supplying resources and training, and also in active relational work. We are a chartered local centre of British YFC, one of Britain's most dynamic Christian organisations dedicated to tackling the big issues facing young people in our society today.

Our main focus for the last few years has been in the Tillydrone/Seaton area of Aberdeen, working in the schools and neighbourhood in partnership with other churches and charities. For an update of this work, and how it is bearing fruit, please see our latest newsletter.

We are currently updating our web site, so please bear with us. Should be completed by early 2018!

Please take a look around the site to find out more about us, how you can contribute to our ministry and how we can help you; if you'd like regular updates on our ministry just contact us. If you've come here looking for YFC:NE in England they can be found at https://northeast.yfc.co.uk.

Database permissions

: Published Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:22; Updated Sat, 28 Apr 2018 20:17

New laws covering how we handle your data mean that shortly we will be asking those of us who receive our newsletters for permission to keep sending updates. It is totally up to you, but please do watch out for this and respond if you still wish to receive our newsletter and prayer points. If you don't respond by 25 May 2018, we will assume that you no longer want to receive our updates.

You can read our updated Privacy Notice in relation to the new laws by clicking on the menu above or here.

Appeal for help

: Published Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:16; Updated Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:16

Brothers and Sisters in Christ. We need more volunteers of all ages to help behind the scenes with the various tasks involved with running this ministry. Can you spare a few hours a month?

North East Scotland Youth for Christ (NESYFC) have been both blessed and privileged to be a part of the growing multi team ministry which is coming together as one body in Christ to follow His example and reach out to people where they are and particularly in Tillydrone and Seaton.

As you may know, we have our full time youth worker Curtis Sangbarani working with the young people (football coaching, school pastor at St Machar Academy, befriending at Riverbank School, TLG, Cage football, discipling young people, helping out at the Mission and Lighthouse etc). We are seeing that work impacting on young people in a positive way. See our latest newsletter link on home page.

However, NESYFC are still at a critical stage in our ministry - regarding the manpower required behind the scenes to support and develop the front end work in Tillydrone and Seaton. At the moment it is difficult for us to see how the ministry can continue in its present form if we do not get more people on board. The work is being blessed, but there is much more we could be doing with more help.

TLG Video

: Published Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:05; Updated Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:08

A short video on the work we do with the Transforming Lives for Good (TLG) project, you can watch it here:

About TLG

All over the UK, children are struggling in school for all kinds of reasons and many families are suffering without hope. The effects of bullying, bereavement, family breakdown, poverty or being in the care system can have a huge impact on a child's education. The associated bad behaviour can lead to them being excluded for school. Some children may be struggling with a lack of confidence, have no positive role models, or just need an adult to talk to.

TLG Early Intervention provides a practical solution to support children, families and schools in their community. They intervene at the crossroads to bring support, care and education to make sure that children have a hope for the future and that their life is not over before it’s even started. This may be through a volunteer offering one to one help to act as a mentor, right through to intensive support of young people and their families that have been excluded from school.

Newsletter - 2018 Issue 1

: Published Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:20

Our latest newsletter is out. Read it here and catch up on our ministry and points for prayer.

Cage in Action

: Published Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:04; Updated Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:59

The Cage is in action at Seaton Primary Car Park in partnership with Seaton Community Church and the Outreach Bus project, every fortnight on Monday evenings, during the winter months. Also at St Machar Academy after Easter until the October break in term time. and other events like Fusion at Deeside. We urgently need more team volunteers to prevent events being cancelled, so please consider whether you can help out, and pray that Curtis and the team get a good response from young people as they take the Cage out. See Outreach section at top for more detail.

Cage at Seaton Primary