Newday 2025 - God at Work in a Generation 

Newday 2025 was another brilliant week with our ever-growing youth family! We took 101 amazing young people, supported by 26 faithful youth leaders and 8 incredible members of our catering team.

This year, Newday focused on the book of Daniel, with the prayer that our young people would be resolved to stand firm and follow God in a culture full of distraction and compromise. We believe they’ve come back changed by all that God did throughout the week.

Some of the highlights included:

• Salvation: 9 young people gave their lives to Jesus for the first time — including some who had been invited by friends in youth!
• Healing: 9 people from our group were physically healed after being prayed for. One of our youth leaders, who had only been able to run 100–200m over the past 10 years due to knee pain, was completely healed and has since run a 5k pain-free — praise God! Two young people were also healed and, as a result, chose to put their trust in Jesus.
• Baptisms: We had to run an impromptu Explore Baptism session because 18 young people wanted to be baptised and take the next step in following Jesus.
• Youth Fun: Ben Kinchin won the Ultimate Youth Leader competition — definitely the peak achievement of his internship year!
• Leadership Moments: We prayed in Matt McGarry as our new Youth Worker, and it was powerful to hear the boys he’s led for 7 years pray over him and thank God for his investment in their lives.
• Sports Victories: We won the Dodgeball tournament and remain the reigning 12–14s football champions! Joel Mourinho and McGarryth Southgate led our teams to victory, with an incredible crowd cheering them on. Chris Johnston even said this was his highlight of the week!
• Community: Seeing young people build friendships and experience the family feel of our site. We are so blessed with such a great group who are full of joy and fun.

I will never get tired of seeing God at work in this generation — watching them lost in worship, hungry for more of His presence, encouraging and praying for their friends, and stepping further into all that God has called them to.