Sunday 12th July 2026
Dear Church,
School holidays are underway and I figure it’s a good time to update church on the shape of our kids and youth ministries – with a particular invitation below for you to prayerfully consider.
Trinity Kids: Thank God for our great team of leaders and helpers serving month by month in Trinity Kids! This year we’ve had a few new kids join us and it’s been lovely to see them settling in and having a great time. We’ve also had a couple of families who were invited along to Christmas activities where the kids had such a good time that they’re nagging their parents to bring them back to church because Trinity Kids is so good! It’s wonderful that our ministry with children is not only growing the faith of the kids at church, but also engaging others who are hearing about Jesus for the first time.
Trinity Youth: In a similar way, Youth@Marion has had a great first half of the year. Youth@Marion is a collaboration with Trinity Tonsley and Trinity Morphett Vale, with youth and leaders from all three churches and run at Sunrise Christian School Marion. We’ve averaged 25 youth on a Friday night, and had over 30 on a few occasions, which brings a lot of energy and fun! We’ve had friends invited along who have had such a great time that they’re locking in and coming regularly. This is particularly encouraging because for some of these friends, this has been their first connection with church.
The needs: Both Trinity Kids and Trinity Youth@Marion would benefit from new people joining the team. We’d love to train up new leaders for Trinity Kids who are confident to prepare and lead the sessions. At Youth, as our numbers continue to grow, we could really benefit from another male and another female leader this year and more again next year. It would also be helpful to have someone who can help with some of the ‘behind the scenes’ logistics each week, even if they don’t feel like they’ve got much youthful energy! On top of that, in collaboration with the teams at Morphett Vale and Tonsley we’re prayerfully exploring the possibility of starting a junior youth program for next year, with opportunities for people to serve in this exciting new venture.
The invitation: All of this is to ask you to please be praying for our ministry to the next generation. Praise God for his evident work in this space, sustaining leaders and growing young disciples. Please pray for our current teams to be encouraged in their service. Pray for our ongoing work of raising up leaders as we seek to grow our youngest members to know and love the Lord and share the good news of Jesus with their friends. And I’d love you to prayerfully consider whether you might play a part in meeting the leadership needs I’ve outlined above. We’ve also got an excellent Trinity Network Kids and Youth Ministry training day coming up on Saturday August 8. If you’ve been keen to find out more about Kids and Youth ministry this could be a great chance to find out more and gain some confidence. See below for further info. The full program runs 9:00-3:30 but even if you can only come for the morning it will be worthwhile. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about any of this!
With thanks for your prayerful partnership in this great ministry,
Simon Marshman
Senior Pastor
Simon.marshman@trinity.church
