The National Youth Ministry Weekend (NYMW) is an annual event for all Christians involved in supporting young people and helping with church youth work – whether you are a youth leader, church leader, paid worker or volunteer.
At NYMW you’ll find inspiration, encouragement, practical advice and the latest new resources. You’ll join more than a thousand others in our main sessions hearing from some of the leading youth ministry practitioners from around the world. You’ll be able to attend seminars on almost every aspect of Christian work with young people. Above all you’ll find an amazing mix of fun, encouragement and refreshment. It’s a weekend for everyone who loves young people and wants youth work to thrive in their church.
Tickets for 2025
† Sometimes you can’t avoid needing to be back for Sunday morning and church commitments. We understand that – so we’ve created the ‘Back for Sunday’ ticket. For the same price as a standard NYMW ticket you can attend the Early Day and the full conference through to Saturday evening, leaving you free to head home ready for the next day.
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Our 2025 conference theme: The Upturn
We all long for growth in our youth ministry. Our deepest desire is that more young people might know the transforming love of God, the friendship of Jesus and the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. We're desperate to see the kingdom extend further into our communities, and deeper into the hearts of those who have joined it.
Yet for years we've been faced with stories of decline; experiences of young people walking away; budget cuts; disappointments; paper-thin discipleship and leader failure. What we all hope and pray for, is the upturn.
This year at the National Youth Ministry Weekend, we're going to turn our attention to the dream of growth in a reality of decline. We're going to ask what we can do to enable a change in the statistics, and we're going to ask God to do more than we ever could alone in multiplying our efforts. We're going to explore what really helps young people to develop deep, long-term, rooted faith, and we're going to pray big prayers that our work will have a lifelong impact.
We are going to choose hope together. The hope that new things can grow in a place that seems barren; the hope that God can grow our work wider, deeper and in more remarkable ways than we could ever ask or imagine.
We're going to seek the upturn in youth ministry.
The 2025 NYMW programme
International speakers leading in their fields
Time away as a team to refresh and reconnect
Inspiring worship and Bible teaching
Encouragement and time out with other youth workers
Fresh ideas you can implement straight away
Engaging for volunteers, stretching for experienced practitioners
Contributors
Sarah Yardley
Sarah Yardley is a follower of Jesus who loves finding and telling true stories. She was born in California, lives in Cornwall, and enjoys travel, reading, coffee and feasting with friends. She regularly contributes to Lectio 365 and often travels to share the good news of the God who loves us.
Dez Brown
Dez is the CEO and Founder of Spark2Life, a black-led charity, winning a National Youth Justice Award within its first year (2006) for ‘Outstanding contribution in tackling youth crime’. Dez has also been awarded 2 Borough Commander Commendations for support to the community in tackling youth crime.
Susie Aldridge
Susie is based in Nottingham, UK and has been involved in youth ministry for around 15 years. She leads Dreaming the Impossible (DTI) youth movement with an incredible team. Alongside this role, Susie is Senior Associate Pastor at Trent Vineyard where she oversees a number of pastoral teams, including those investing in the next generation. She loves anything yellow and is almost always found wearing sunglasses!
Justin Brierley
Justin is a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster who has become known for creating dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. Justin is passionate about creating conversations around faith, science, theology and culture. Through creative use of podcast, radio, print, video and social media, he aims to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity, while taking seriously the questions and objections of sceptics.
Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis has been working with young people for more than forty years, much of it leading Youthscape. His work has focused recently on helping churches get going in youth work and finding ways of placing young people at the heart of church life. He's married and lives in Luton where, in his spare time, he continues to be a Mac nerd and member of the Magic Circle.
Martin Saunders
Martin Saunders is the founder and Director of Satellites, a Youthscape summer event which aims to help young people to live Jesus-centred lives. He's also Deputy CEO of Youthscape, and the author of a number of books for young people and their leaders. His latest book is 'Signal Fire', a practical guide to prayer for young people.
How to find us
The Vox Conference Centre is part of the amazing
Resorts World complex in Birmingham. By car, it's just
off the M42 with free parking for NYMW delegates.
Birmingham Airport and railway station are just a few
minutes walk away.
Resorts World
Pendigo Way
Birmingham
B40 1PU
NYMW is working to reduce the carbon
footprint of the event and we encourage
you to use public transport where
possible and consider sharing travel if
you come by car.
