Youth Ministries
also commonly referred to as youth group, is an age-specific religious ministry. Faith groups or other religious organizations carry out youth ministry to involve and engage with young people who attend their places of worship, or who live in their community. Christian youth ministryusually encompasses one or more of the following:
encouraging young people (whether they have professed a faith or not) to learn more about a given faith and to become more involved in spiritual life
providing open youth clubs or other activities for the common good of the young people, sometimes without an overtly religious agenda
As well as organizing events and activities, youth ministry will usually include some form of religious instruction and pastoral oversightof young people.