FireStarters isn't a church as such, although many of the young people involved see it as their spiritual home as they come from church environments that are not very condusive to spiritual growth! It is a youth mission team under the banner of YWAM here in Scotland. Our mission statement is 'A Generation Set on Fire for Jesus to be Sparks of Revival'.

The ages of those in the team spread from 10-25+ and there are about 220 of us this year. The teams are led by young leaders 17-25years, who are training as they go!!

We meet once a month for a weekend all through the academic year, have a time all together on the Friday evening to worship and have some challenging teaching, then split into 10 different teams to go and partner with various churches to do evangelism and mission work of varying kinds. Each year sees changes and this year we have teams reaching out to:
a) young people and assylum seeker families in Sitehill, an inner city area of Glasgow
b) young people in Bearsden, a wealthy suburb of Glasgow
c) primary age kids in Ferguslie Park, an inner city area of Paisley
d) young people in Glenburn, a housing scheme in Paisley
e) primary age kids in Wester Hailes, an inner city area of Edinburgh - this team also does steet work in the city centre
f) folk on the streets of Stirling - street evangelsm and open air worship
g) primary age kids and their families in Dundee
h) young people in different towns in Ayrshire - this team travels around towns in Ayrshire doing street evangelism and youth nights

We do all this through youth events and drop-in evenings as well as open air evangelism. It is a real challenge to the teenagers involved to own and share their faith in a relevant way!

We have an intercession team, also made up of teenagers with a passion to hear and follow God, that travels round the other FireStarters teams to encourage and help them to pray for their area of mission. This has been a great inspiration to everyone who has been blessed by their ministry.

Another commitment we have is to disciple teenagers from every walk of life, and not all from comfortable Christian homes! It can be really tough going for these folk, but they are a real encouragement to us as they discover the ways of God and seek to follow Him.

We are starting to see folk coming to know Jesus and it's very exciting.....but spare a thought to pray for us - we are not without our struggles and it is still just as tough as ever it was to live for Jesus a a teenager, but we are blessed to have all these young people taking a stand and saying they want to be 'A Generation Set on Fire for Jesus to be Sparks of Revival' Praise God!