3Rock Youth Leadership Programme
3Rock runs a youth leaders programme, to train and equip young leaders and offer a place for people who are keen to get involved with 3Rock or youth work, follows is a brief outline of work an emerging leader will be involved with.
Who should do the 3Rock Leadership programme?
- Have you got a passion for spreading the Gospel throughout young people in the nation?
- Do you have a desire to speak hope into young peoples lives?
- Are you a parish youth leader who feels you need some more skills?
- Are you a volunteer youth worker in your parish and feel you would like to do this as a job?
Then this programme is for you!!
What is the 3Rock leadership programme?
3Rock Youth leadership programme exists to train individuals into proessional and effective youth ministry. With the goal of placing each LP into a parish as a Full or Part time youth worker.
3LP combines teaching modules with experts in their field and practical application of youth work and leadership in real world situations.
3Rock Leadership Program is an excellent opportunity for exploring the gifts and abilities you have for youth leadership in a wide variety of settings.
- One of the main benefits of the 3rock Youth team is working alongside experts in the fields of youth and church ministry coming from over 15 years worth of experience.
- The leadership programme will give you oppurtionity to gain experience working with the wider church.
- You will be working with a team learning how to deal with team dynamics, how to be productive in a team and how to lead a team a leaders
- You will learn about networking, what it is to network with the community of youth leaders on a national scale.
- You will learn how to converse with teenagers how to relate to them.
- Learning how to communicate the Gospel in a creative way using media and talks in an effective way.
- You will become a better leader!
- You will be on a team setting up and running the following 3Rock created and associated events….
Essential
Mixing lighting rigs, the traditional organ of Christ Church Cathedral, a DJ, Rock bands and 400+ young people in the sanctuary, Essential is one of our most popular events in our calender.
Substance School Teams
There are lots of opportunities throughout the year to participate in day retreats that encourage students to think about faith. Interns will have the opportunity to hone their communication skills on our many School retreats.
Urban Soul
Urban Soul is an active citizenship programme for youth (15 years+ only), taking place in Dublin each July. Interns will have the opportunity to gain behind the scenes experience and learn what exactly goes into making a huge interdenominational, cross boarder project like Urban Soul work.
D & G Camps
The D & G Camps are the camps run by the Dublin Glendalough diocese with 3Rock. Run for 2 weeks during the summer a great time to present faith in a fun way with games, sports, activities and worship meetings.
Collide
Here, we have the chance to explore youth styled worship in a localized situation. The event involves worship as well as the use of drama, testimony and talks to introduce people to a fresh and relevant expression of church.
Anois
This weekend is being run in partnership with the Church of Ireland Youth Department and we are expecting over 300 teenagers from across the Irish dioceses.
Xposure
Xposure a multi media youth event where up to 1000 young people come together to expeirience culturally relevant faith.
Emerge
This is a leadership training network created by 3Rock Youth in partnership with Xposure to gather Young Leaders for training, resourcing and networking. The event runs three or four times a year.
International Outreach
International missions with the team is an amazing way to see youth leaders grow and devlop, there will be chances to do missions trip abroad. The team has already had the oppurtionity to work in Brazil and Spain training local leaders. We have also travelled to Lesotho, South Africa, twice to work with orphanages.
Resourcing
Whether its media or literally based, there is a growing need in Ireland for contextual resources. Over this year you will be involved in the creation and continous updating of these including:
Crucial
Using film, modern life parables and the right of passage that is confirmation, 3Rock Youth is creating an interactive DVD for the Church of Ireland. We have completed four in a series of five DVDs. The previous interns have all played a big part in the production of Crucial.
Resource Oriented Website
3Rock’s website is under continual development. It includes lots of information – such as current statistics relevant to young people, articles, news of upcoming events and resources aimed at youth and those who work with them.
Church Review
At present, 3Rock Youth writes a monthly page for the Church Review and also contributes regularly to other publications. This year 3Rock Youth will endeavor to produce a youth supplement magazine quarterly to accompany the Church Review.
When?
Starting in September the Programme will consist of about 12 hours a week although this can vary depending on the week, some weeks will have more due to school retreats or events such as Xposure, Essential etc.
Cost
For cost information, please email us.
What the team members have to say:
“The 3Rock Internship helped me to gain the skills and confidence I needed to work in Youth ministry. I already had the passion and desire to work with young people, helping them to see their potential and worth. After completing my year out with 3Rock, gaining the skills and experience necessary, I was offered a full-time youth worker position. I love what I do and I am still very involved in 3Rock Youth.” Sarah-Jane (2004 Intern, 3Rock Youth Staff member, full-time parish youth leader)
“3Rock is reaching out to teenagers alongside the Church to bridge this gap, and showing them they have a very important place in their parishes, by running youth events, training days for leaders and creating awareness for youth ministry. I feel very lucky to be able to be a part of this.” –Sarah Byrne (2007 Intern, currently working part-time as a parish youth leader)
“The 3Rock Leaders Program is truly a life-changing experience, and that’s not just a cliché! Every day I worked with the team for my year as an intern, and even beyond that in the friendships that I have as a result, I find myself challenged not to be just a better leader but to be a better Christian, so that I can be a proper leader, lead by example and know to whom to point others.”“ -Eric Denner (2005 Intern, currently a Parish based volunteer Youth Worker)
