Ross Savill,
Youth Worker

Elicia Wuersching,
Youth Worker

A few words from Elicia Wuersching, Youth Worker

“I am one of the youth pastors at HumeRidge, working alongside Ross Savill & a team of approximately 40 volunteer youth leaders. Together we  seek to connect young people with God through a relational ministry with  teenage youth.

I am very passionate about discipleship - supporting and encouraging  leaders to grow, and equipping them to lead other young people to Christ. I particularly work with the girls to facilitate mentoring partnerships, and  run several spiritual retreats throughout the year.

While relationship building is the philosophy of how youth ministry  happens, we run programs that provide a setting for this to happen. Friday night youth programs operate for students in grades 7-12, and  these are primarily activity based. The purpose of these evenings is to give young people the  opportunity to hang out with one another, and invite their non-Christian friends to something that is  safe and non-threatening. In this setting we are upfront about our passion for God and our  commitment to serve him in this way, and invite young people to explore things for themselves.

On Sunday mornings Ross & myself run high school small group bible studies during the 9am church service, and we also co-ordinate and run evening services which have a particular youth  and family focus. During the week we also run small groups for young adults in the 17-25 age  bracket.

Where I have time I love to get involved in other areas of ministry including being part of a music  team, and assisting to promote and facilitate mission work. I also have a secondary role just 6 hours  a week at a local primary school where I work alongside upper primary girls one-on-one who are  having personal or social difficulties, and also run social development classes with grades 5-7.”