Wirral YFC

Worship Academy is a project offering young people from around Wirral the opportunity to come together to learn and gain a deeper understanding of worship and be challenged to live their whole life as worship to God. Read More

After heading up a Research & Development Department with an multi-national company at only 18 Martin moved on to work for Liverpool City Council’s Engineering Consultancy as a Design Technician. From there he began studies at Chester College and graduated in 2003 with a 1st Class honours degree in Theology having won the Hollybank Prize for his contribution to Theology and Religious Studies and his outstanding academic work.

An expert in youth and schools work and a gifted communicator, Martin has delivered training and teaching all over the UK, and has been invited to speak at Spring Harvest and The Youth Work Conference in the past couple of years.

During his time with Wirral YFC Martin has twice been interviewed for La Luz (an international Christian TV show), shared his faith live on numerous local radio programmes, met with HRH Prince Charles at Clarence House to chat about young people and hope, co-authored Explo:RE, a Alpha resource for RE teachers, and shared the gospel with many 1000′s of Wirral’s young people.

Martin is particularly keen to provide consultancy and training for churches or youth workers who are trying to define their vision and purpose or are struggling to turn their vision in to strategic steps towards making it a reality.

To book Martin to speak or provide consultancy please contact us.

Sarah is our West Wirral Worker and has been with WYFC now for over a year. Sarah originally from St Albans Hertfordshire, started in youth work in her gap year working for a large youth work organisation do doing media and PR alongside working with her Church helping to run the youth work. From here she gained a passion for young people, to see them reach their full potential and know that they are loved. It was with this passion she then made the move from the south to the north to pursue a qualification in youth work.

Sarah moved to Chester studying for a DipHE in Christian Youth Work for two years and during this time worked out in the field in two different places. It was the second of these placements that brought her to the Wirral, working in Heswall for a Church. After finishing and passing her DipHE and gaining her JNC Sarah decided to stay on at the University of Chester gain her BA HONS in Christian Youth Work. During her final year Sarah studied Youth Work skills alongside Theology modules, but also stayed on the Wirral in employment with the Church where she had previously been on placement. It was during this time that God broke her heart for the young people of Wirral and she knew that God was calling her to live on the Wirral. Sarah since then has got married and moved to live and now work with Wirral YFC! She is now on the advisory panel for the University of Chester Youth Work degree and is a qualified hockey coach!

Zoe has worked with Wirral Youth For Christ for over 2 years and is currently working in North Wirral Secondary Schools. Zoe has lived on the Wirral all her life and spent her years in education at Weatherhead High School where she took her GCSE’s and A Levels. Feeling unsure about what was next, Zoe took a gap year to take time to seek what God had planned for her and she became a full time volunteer at The Foundry, a church in Widnes. It was during this year Zoe discovered her passion and heart for and sharing her faith in Jesus with those she met, on the streets, within the church and in local secondary schools. After her year was finished she felt God call her back to the Wirral and started working full time with Wirral Youth For Christ.

Zoe is particularly keen to see young people value and respect themselves and others as unique, complete people created by God for the purpose of relationship with Himself. Zoe is on a journey discovering what right, God intended relationship looks like, with God and others and wants to help others do the same. Through this desire, Zoe delivers relationship and sex education in schools and runs a 3 month discipleship course, The Romance Academy, to help young people explore a life of respect, value and integrity.

Rob is our East Wirral Worker and has been with us for nearly a year. Before coming to work for Wirral YFC Rob did a 3 year apprenticeship in Cabinet Making working with a local cabinet maker and attending Liverpool Community College where he gained many qualifications including a Level 3 City and Guilds in furniture production. Rob has a passion for taking the good news relevantly to young people and has been developing the team’s skills on how this can be done using the latest technology. Over the last year Rob has been building relationships with the secondary schools in East Wirral and has had some very positive results. Rob has built relationships with schools that Wirral YFC has not had much contact with in the past.