Our Revealing Jesus approach to mission blends years of children's and youth ministry experience with research-backed insights to give local churches a proven way to reach the next generation.
We help local churches reach out and make a lasting impact in the lives of the next generation. And we’d love to partner with yours!
A vast majority of children and young people don’t attend church. Yet many are open to faith – they just need relevant opportunities to explore the Bible and discover Jesus for themselves.
We’re here to help. With our Revealing Jesus mission framework – a flexible approach that supports every stage of a child or young person’s faith journey – along with proven resources and expert guidance, we’ll equip your church to reach out, build relationships and provide meaningful support at every step.
If you want clear vision and structure for outreach – so Jesus is effectively revealed beyond your church walls – we’re here to support you with:
✅ A proven framework for mission to the next generation
✅ One-to-one coaching from our expert teams, for the right people in your church
✅ Tried and tested, time-saving resources
✅ Practical and prayer support
✅ Access to a community of like-minded people.
Want to learn more and explore how we can partner with your church in this vital mission? Arrange a free, informal mission conversation with an experienced member of your local SU team.
Talk with a member of our team
Help multiply mission
Our support for churches is completely free. However, we rely on donations to help us fund and extend our work, ensuring that even more children and young people to discover the life-changing good news of Jesus. You can donate to Scripture Union here.
The Revealing Jesus approach
So how does Revealing Jesus work?
It's simple, really. Drawing from our many years of experience of mission to children and young and our in-depth research into faith formation among the next generation, we are mobilising and ever-growing number of local churches to effectively 'reveal Jesus' in their communities.
We’re passionate about raising up and supporting 'Faith Guides' in churches across England and Wales. These are committed volunteers with diverse experience who walk alongside children and young people on their journey of faith. They meet them where they are and create opportunities for them to explore the Bible, respond to Jesus, and grow in faith.
Providing effective support for Faith Guides is our number one focus at Scripture Union. Our aim is to ensure Faith Guides are equipped, empowered and confident to Reveal Jesus to local children and young people.
Revealing Jesus is all about relationships! We're here to support you personally, as you build effective long-lasting relationships with the next generation!
📈 There are already nearly 600 Faith Guides (from over 400 different churches) reaching out into communities across England and Wales with our support. And we'd love to partner with your too! Together, we can ensure many more children and young people have the opportunity to be impacted in amazing ways by the good news of Jesus.
The Revealing Jesus mission framework
All of our support centres on the Revealing Jesus mission framework – a structured yet flexible approach to mission that carefully considers all of the stages that children and young people go through as they find and grow in faith.
Put simply, It’s a framework for effective long-term relational mission.
Our research and experience shows us that most children go through the same four stages as they become Christians – Connect, Explore, Respond and Grow. So, 'Revealing Jesus' is all about equipping and resourcing Faith Guides to be effective companions at each of those stages – from initial faith-inspiring connections to developing Grow Communities to encourage new-found faith to flourish.
Our prayer is that, with your support, we will be able to raise up and support an ever-growing movement of Faith Guides, so that more children and young people will come to know and follow Jesus.
This short animation provides a quick overview of the way we see churches coming together in mission…
Faith Guides
We’re not expecting the next generation to navigate this faith journey on their own and that’s where Faith Guides come in.
Could you be a Faith Guide? You don't need to be a trained children's or youth worker, although you might be, you just need to be mission-minded and with a heart to take on this much-needed role.
The four stages of the faith journey
Although each child and young person is different, our research and experience show us that most go through the same stages as they become and grow as a Christian: Connect, Explore, Respond and Grow.
We provide resources and practical support for Faith Guides, for all four of these stages, as part of our Revealing Jesus mission framework.
> Find out more about the stages of the faith journey
Faith for Gen-Z
The Revealing Jesus framework has been built on extensive experience of working with unchurched children and young people, as well as research into the faith journeys of the 95.
For many of Generation Z, traditional church just doesn't seem to be for them, or fit with their culture, so they don't stay part of it for long. But that doesn't mean they don't want to explore the difference that Jesus can make in their lives!
Pray with us
It is so important that we lift this all up in prayer. Please join us in praying for the 95, and for churches and Faith Guides who are already walking alongside them, as well as those Faith Guides yet to come! Pray that through many churches coming together in mission, many children and young people may come to know Jesus and develop a personal, vibrant faith in him.
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