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Speaker: Well, it was back in 2019 that we trialed a little podcast. We called it Pep Talk, the persuasive evangelism podcast. And we've got different guests on every fortnight for a short conversation. about how they share their faith.
Speaker: And we have had some. brilliant guests on over the last few years people that talked about sharing their christian faith with people from different religious backgrounds different lifestyles children youth students adults we've showcased some fantastic fantastic fantastic resources as well and the episodes that i've had the privilege of being involved in i've just loved talking to the guests some brilliant people that we've had on and we're now approaching almost 200 episodes
Speaker: I'm not sure when we started out we thought we would do this many, but here we are at nearly 200 episodes. and sort of wondering what you think. What has been most encouraging for you? What's inspired you most? Or are there whole areas of evangelism that we haven't covered that you would love us to talk about. We'd love to hear from you. go to our website, press the contact button and let us know what you think. And thank you for being part of Pep Talk. over these last A few years.
Speaker: Christians want to see future generations come to know God, but it's one thing teaching our own families. It's another thing altogether reaching other young people. The fact of the matter is is that many children today are growing up with little or no contact with the church. So how do you communicate with them well?
Speaker: This is a special extended episode of Pep Talk from Solas, which looks at what our guest today describes as the best kept secret of mission. He'll be talking to us about his efforts to disrupt the normal type of ministry so that more young people hear an engaging Christian message in a school setting. It's a fascinating exchange, which I hope you'll very much enjoy.
Speaker: Welcome to the show. I'm Simon and I'm delighted that we have a co -presenter today who is also an expert in this field. He is Dave Hutchings, who is often a guest speaker at Solus events like Confident Christianities across the country. He's also an author. And this is actually his first pep talk. Dave, welcome to the show.
Speaker: Yeah, it's actually my second pep talk assignment because I was a guest on it. wands rather than ah a a co -host it was obviously memorable Yes, no, no, sorry. I didn't know that. I meant your first as a co -presenter. Sorry, I do apologize. um Could you say something a little bit about... why that you are an expert in this field.
Speaker: I don't like referring to myself as an expert, so I'll i'll let you do it. and But... I've been a physics teacher. ah I teach GCSE and A -Level Physics up in the east riding of Yorkshire.
Speaker: And I've done that. uh for nearly 23 years now. I'm... And whilst doing that, I've also run Christian unions in in school.
Speaker: and got speakers in. run special events in the process of running an alpha course now for... The staff. um and done a lot of thinking about And lots of... Trial and error.
Speaker: about talking about God. in the classroom. Fantastic. Well, it's great to have you with us and certainly more of an expert than I am. Perhaps that's that's what we should leave it with. But and we'd love to hear your wisdom on this topic too. But our our main guest today who will be sharing is Sam McKee, who is Director of Youth for Christ in Aylesbury Vale. We actually met personally a few weeks ago at an event with the American philosopher and debater William Leigh Craig. So it's it's nice to see you again. Welcome to the show, Sam. How are you?
Speaker: I'm doing very well this evening thanks so much for having me. Well, it's great to have you here. um Could you start by just, it'd be lovely to hear a little bit about your own story and how you got involved with evangelism in the first place.
Speaker: um I didn't. Get great A -levels. So I was looking for something to do and my local Youth of Christ director invited me to do a gap year with him. And then before I knew it, I'd done three years there.
Speaker: um Then I got invited by my pastor to be our church's first ever youth worker. And I was there for six years. Then I went back to Wickham Youth of Christ for three years to run the secondary school side of things.
Speaker: um Then I got invited to go and work. as a youth youth pastor, youth evangelist at um a church in... uh beckonsfield Did that for four years then then I had some time out that was when I was really sort of struggling with my faith after that um And then the opportunity came to finally be in charge for once. With, um... with Alesbury Vale Youth for Christ and it was a very enticing opportunity.
Speaker: And ah so I went there five years ago and um it's it's been. Yeah, an incredible ride. um Just being able to sort of over the years, I'd thought. this works, this doesn't work, someone should really try this. and I'd never really been able to persuade people to.
Speaker: to buy into the kinds of ideas I had, whereas in Aylesbury I was in charge. Had great trustees who were willing to support it. And um I thought, this is really going to work. And it it has.
Speaker: It sounds a little bit, Sam, like you're the Mikel Arteta of of Youth for Christ. You've shared your vision. You've asked people to trust the process. Um, and uh Of course, Arsenal have just won a championship under him. What what kind of things?
Speaker: What kind of things are you are you doing with Youth for Christ now? what What is happening on the ground sort of week by week and month by month? Well, this this hasn't aged too well because of politics, but the the moniker I got that I really embraced was Elon Musk, which was to disrupt.
Speaker: um because i i felt the youth Youth mission and ministry urgently needed disrupting. That was the thing I kept saying for a long time. This urgently needs disrupting. um In an organization like Youth of Christ. um which is, I think, the biggest missional body to young people outside of the church as an organisation. There's 60 centres across England, Scotland and Wales. um and has been going for 75 years. It was founded by Billy Graham.
Speaker: Um, And it's an organization that is... steeped in a lot of tradition and values. And you still have a lot of centers that are doing things like. pool tables table tennis tables skate parks detached work all that sort of thing But a lot of the models that were still rooted in the 80s and 90s were just... Far too dated.
Speaker: for today. um But my biggest problem was was reach. like my I have two metrics that I live by. I've got a science background, so i I live on data. data and figures. um The two biggest metrics that matter to me are reach as a percentage.
Speaker: How many of the young people in your area do you actually have meaningful contact with? um And then frequency of mission opportunity. like And by that, I just mean...
Speaker: An opportunity to talk meaningfully about... faith and the big questions to young people for at least an hour. um And so I wanted to create a model.
Speaker: that was fluent and efficient and worked in a school's context where you could actually talk about faith matters. to large large large large large numbers of young people a lot.
Speaker: Like, every week. Stop dealing with tens and twenties and start dealing with hundreds and thousands was the mantra I just kept repeating in my first year at Youth of Christ. And um a lot of people said that can't be done. It's not possible. You can't talk about faith in schools anymore. um I said, you can, you just have to change the way you do it.
Speaker: It's got to be valuable. It's got to be. um it It has to be something the school would be proud of. um and so uh I set about trying to build the most disruptive model possible that was efficient. And we had to be efficient in Aylesbury because we're the smallest centre. It is just me.
Speaker: And we we have a tiny budget. We operate at a deficit. most months. So how can you how can you do something that can reach? 13 to 15 ,000 students each year Um,
Speaker: in At scale. in a way that really really makes a difference. Great. That's a great question. And and so what is the answer there? So you're saying you're giving something of value. So what is that and how have you done that? Because I think some people will think surely schools have loads of rules and an overtly Christian ministry trying to gain access that that that's never going to get. Get. you know.
Speaker: get off the ground but so how did you get around and and show that it was valuable and all the things you just mentioned yeah i i love schools i'm i'm biased i'm married to a a teacher um And...
Speaker: uh schools mean a great deal to me school was one one of my happiest places in my life. um i want I see us as serving schools, but when you talk to youth organizations about serving schools, they go, oh, well, you should do mentoring.
Speaker: or you should do chaplaincy. or you could do prayer spaces in schools, or you can run lunchtime clubs and after school stuff. clubs all that stuff is good if you're not trying to reach hundreds and thousands of people if your model is pastoral then yes you can do that stuff But um Youth of Christ's ah model is is supposed to be... um a missional one, which is where you are actually talking about faith and you are actually trying to engage.
Speaker: um young people and and staff. and so and yeah yeah everyone connected with schools. um So I... I'm passionate about enrichment. I know schools are really... Um, competing hard with each other over enrichment, which is what do we offer our students?
Speaker: that's at no cost to them. that means that our school is a really special privileged place to be. Like I don't. i don't just I don't see these schools as a means to an end. I love these schools. I love every school in my town.
Speaker: um And I want them to thrive and I want the students to have an incredible experience there. so My model was, let's let's give them just the best enrichment. Let's corner the market on it that no one else can compete with.
Speaker: And so I draw on every single contact I had, every professor, lecturer, researcher, doctor, scientist. um engineer. um a couple of astronauts, like everyone I knew.
Speaker: who was just going to be the most incredible person. Bring them to Aylesbury for a day, take them to school after school after school, and have them speak to packed hall after packed hall after packed hall of hundreds and hundreds and thousands of students in a day. I think um for for years two to four of my time there, the average...
Speaker: reach per day was about 2 ,500 students. Um, So we were reaching. um About a third of all the young people in Aylesbury um on a weekly basis.
Speaker: for at least an hour. uh that's just unthinkable to people and yeah we broke every single record youth of crisis has ever had um very very quickly um but what we want we don't It's not a means to an end. I want the school to absolutely love what we're doing and say gosh everything's changed since you've been here We're so lucky to have you.
Speaker: but We can't thank you enough. You're the best thing that happened to us. So we were we were bringing... professors from Oxford and Cambridge who had a living faith, who would come. and speak in school for an hour. Sometimes it was just on what their discipline was, and faith wasn't a big part of it, but students knew they were a Christian. Sometimes it would be tied into ah a particular theme or a big question, like science and religion, for example.
Speaker: um or or consciousness or meaning, purpose, value, those sorts of things. It's not too difficult to find touch points with the ah RE department or the philosophy department.
Speaker: And I will just say something on that as well. In a lot of schools, RE and philosophy is like a C -class subject. it's it's kind of a bottom tier subject you know the sciences and the arts get everything they want. They can do lots of trips each year. They can do lots of big events. And those events are the cornerstone of the school year. Aubrey and Philosophy really have to fight for real estate in their school.
Speaker: um They're not seen as major subjects. If you can add value to that department, yeah you're doing them a wonderful favor. and they they will love you forever because you're helping them um have that real estate. So if I brought... a professor of philosophy from Oxford or Cambridge for a day, suddenly the ah RE department is...
Speaker: is the big thing that week or that month. and um that's that that goes a long way they really appreciate that And um I love seeing that as someone who's married to an ah r RE teacher.
Speaker: um So um you're you're serving the school. in in a way where you can talk about faith, where instead of the school worrying and panicking about, oh, is this going to upset our femme people?
Speaker: What does this mean for how we operate? They go, they clap and they take photos and they put those photos on social media and they tell their governors and they tell the parents and they tell Ofsted and they they own it with pride and joy. And, you know, you're seeing.
Speaker: on social media. Thank you so much to Ellsbury Vale Youth of Christ for making this wonderful thing happen. and So um the guess is is the big thing. thing the the other thing is we We partnered with Premier Christian Radio ah over their show, Unbelievable.
Speaker: um And I can get into that, but I'm conscious you might have some questions about. everything I've just mentioned. What? I think... Something that occurs to me, Sam, is you know you've driven this you've had a vision um you've you've got this kind of drive.
Speaker: um you've got maybe you've got some of these connections already and you yourself, you're you're an academic, you you know that world, um you're you're very switched on, you're massively qualified.
Speaker: um it might be that someone's listening to the podcast and thinking well i would like to have that level of impact i'd like to be able to help out in that sort of way i'd like to volunteer for my Local Youth for Christ. But I can't do what...
Speaker: what Sam's just described. um he's He's kind of like a unicorn. um How would you encourage them? uh can they can they do it too Oh, yes, certainly. um so i um When you're called Youth of Christ, schools are very wary of you at the beginning. And Aylesbury was particularly... um was unreached in terms of there was very little connection between the centre and the schools historically.
Speaker: there There were a handful of schools that my predecessor had gone in. Um, But some schools hadn't had a Christian go in them. this century. uh when i got there and when your organization is called youth of christ a lot of schools just like no no thank you not interested at all don't want to meet you don't want to talk to you and i understand that um It wasn't the fact that I have a bunch of degrees and I'm a scientist and an academic that got me through the door. It was
Speaker: Holding up these people and saying look, you know, I've got Professor... you know john smith who's professor of medicine at Cambridge, in town for a day.
Speaker: Here's their academic page. Here's their book. Here's their qualifications. um Is there a window of an hour? where you would want them to come. and by the school and speak to your students.
Speaker: um there's no cost it's already accounted for it would be delighted to bring them by And it just started with that simple service, no cost. I never charge schools. um Anyone can do that. and And a lot of centers across the youth aggressive movement are doing that now.
Speaker: um Yes, i I had the connections because of my own academic life. I just happened to to meet. A lot of Christians were scientists. um I think it's important for us to understand this is probably the best kept secret in this country. We have.
Speaker: and obscenely large amount of extraordinary christian professors lecturers scientists researchers and the church has no idea who they are. They don't understand that we're sitting on top of a gold mine.
Speaker: um The world knows who they are. Academia knows who they are. um But particularly on the science side, we've got tons of... major academics from places like Oxford and Cambridge. We've got lots of fellows of the Royal Society. We've got lots of award winners, people who lead major journals, people who've done incredible um uh work in their field people who would a school would bite your hand off to have come and speak to their
Speaker: um students and the church just doesn't know who they are And I have a vested interest in changing that. um Also in the humanities, we've got lots of them as well. um And... um But I just invite them, and when they understand... what it is. yeah I've got a list of probably about 100 names of people who would love to come and speak in your school. You just have to invite them. and um and make them available to schools.
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Speaker: and And so at these events, um you've obviously mentioned your vision behind them. What are you actually trying to achieve? Are you trying just to get people thinking about the Christian faith? Are you trying to convert people? Are you trying to show the credibility of Christianity through the academics? Or are you actually trying to do all kinds of different things? I'd be interested just to know. Is there an overarching vision? in one sense i appreciate you have to be careful what you can and can't say in schools Yeah, you can't convert someone. That's a work of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker: um and And personally, i don't I really don't care. If someone becomes a Christian, as a teenager or when they're middle -aged or when they're retired, you know it. It's, it's. to To use the parable of the sower analogy, it's just about sowing seed.
Speaker: the The only thing you can control... to to some extent, is reach. And so my metrics are really, really simple. i just My core value... is that every young person in the area within my responsibility.
Speaker: um which for me is the Aylesbury Valley area, is at least reached by our centre. um for And this is important to understand. Because I don't understand it myself.
Speaker: is that a lot of churches or youth organisations, They have a strategy at the start of the year. We're going to do this. We're going to do this. This is the work we do. This is the resource we have.
Speaker: And you look at that strategy and you realize that if they do it that year. they will reach 15 % of their area. And I can't live with that. Like. You mean to tell me at the start of the year...
Speaker: You know. that 85 % of the young people in your area are not going to hear anything about God. this year. They're like, how how can you do that? um I aim for 100 % every year. That may not be possible.
Speaker: But... There's 11 schools in our... region. And we want to have contact with all of them and be able to offer them. at the programs that we run.
Speaker: and try and make sure we have an audience of... a hundred percent um And if you're consistent and you hit it and you hit it again, you do it and do it again, um you can do that. I mean, in my second year, we had a reach of 87%. Now that may never, ever happen again.
Speaker: ah We did hit 81 % the year after. That's incredibly difficult to do. but um but it shows it's possible yeah About 13 ,000 students we had contact with for at least an hour.
Speaker: where we were talking about faith. um And that's that's what you should do. That's the only thing I'm trying to do is raise the conversation, raise the big questions, bring pause for thought.
Speaker: um open up the conversation with expertise with the very best people in a way that the school values is grateful for appreciates and is is partnering with um i don't think it's rocket science um
Speaker: Wait, was explaining this to another center, actually. I said, it's not rocket science. And they pointed out the fact that my guest that previous Wednesday had literally been a rocket scientist. I said, except for last week when it was rocket science. Yeah, I guess they probably couldn't say it's not brain surgery either. because probably have one boat yeah Yeah, definitely.
Speaker: ah You've talked about how the schools are incredibly grateful and that they... they will jump at it. What about the response of the students? you Are they more... We keep hearing. young people are more open nowadays and that certainly has been my experience in in you know across my career that there's There's an openness. amongst young people to listen to ideas they might not have listened to.
Speaker: 10 -15 years ago. Are you getting good? good response and good um a good set of questions in the Q and &A sessions from students. dragged along by a teacher. Yeah, I really don't see that. um I really don't see hostility.
Speaker: um the way we do it. People find it stimulating and interesting. um we we've got a lot of grammar schools in our area and some very high achieving schools um We never struggle with the pitch there doing the academic stuff, but sometimes with the. the schools that can get forgotten and left behind, the the sort of the lower achieving ones.
Speaker: We do try and be a bit more creative. and um and find ways of pitching things in a way that they can engage with and understand but people always underestimate those schools. They're still just as amazed at meeting a professor from Oxford and Cambridge as anybody. And and the the staff love that because the grammar schools get everything.
Speaker: You know, the high achieving schools get everything. And when you choose to bring someone so incredible to them. Um, they, they love that as well. And I i love doing that. um An astronaut is a universal language. Everyone speaks and loves space. Each of the last five years, we've brought at least one astronaut along to speak in the schools. um And that is just all about wonder.
Speaker: um and that's not like um a direct directly missional thing um it's just wonder wonder making um And every school loves that. and that those have
Speaker: probably been my favorite days. um But um yeah, man, I could tell you so many stories. But on the response to the Q and &A, I mentioned that we partner with Premier Christian Radio when Justin Briley was still there. um their Their top show is called Unbelievable, and Unbelievable is one of the biggest platforms on the planet for debate and discussion between atheists and...
Speaker: um Christians. And I said to Justin, you do these shows in a studio in London. Would you ever do it in a school where your students are a live audience? And he loved that.
Speaker: um So we did some pilots with him, but then he left. Premiere. And um we connected with the producers and said, could we do this? And um it just works so well. um These debates, the way you do them in a conversational format, they're anti -cancel culture. You're modeling healthy disagreement.
Speaker: to the students you get experts from both sides you can get amazing guests because people want to be on a show of that caliber and it's at no cost to the school and schools love them and it accidentally became our prime vehicle of mission I think in our second year we did five, our third year we did 18.
Speaker: Then we did 30 last year, which was almost one a week for the school year. and We've done about 25 this year. um And we've had some of the biggest atheists in the world come to Aylesbury. Aylesbury ended up sort of...
Speaker: becoming astronaut central and debate central. um ah which which was great, but we've taken these all over the country. Coventry Youth of Christ, Kenilworth Youth of Christ, Rugby Youth of Christ, Wickham Youth of Christ, Tunbridge Wells Youth of Christ in a couple of weeks.
Speaker: um So it um it works everywhere um and it's great fun. And the questions you get there are wonderful when you do that. The students really, I can't speak highly enough.
Speaker: about doing that as a as part of your program but part of that is we don't shy away from the the tough questions schools love um Questions like... um Why is there so much suffering in the world?
Speaker: Um, if if God is good. And you' you're bringing in an atheist. You have both perspectives. You're giving a platform to the atheist. So it's not... it's not seen as evangelism or proselytizing because it isn't it's a conversation that the students are invited into. One of the most popular debate topics we go for is AI and what it means to be human.
Speaker: um You know, what does it mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence? um one other popular one is science and religion in the future based on books by people like Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker as...
Speaker: society gets more technologically advanced. What's it, um you know, with genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, spacefaring, personalized medicine, robotics?
Speaker: um as so As society gets more advanced, and what place is religion going to have in that future? But what's it going to mean to be human in that future as well? It's a wonderful topic. that everyone loves and it opens up the big questions and people are interested not hostile Um,
Speaker: that they are provoked in all the right ways. Absolutely. and And actually, I should say the the reason we have you on the show today is because Andy Bannister did an event with Premier that you organized with an imam talking about Islam and Christianity. And he was also buzzing about just the experience of doing that. And you not only had the school, but as you say, it was going out on the radio and online as well and reaching a lot more people.
Speaker: and i' yeah it's amazing to think we do a debate in the school and yes there'll be like a
Speaker: 100 to 500 students in the hall, depending on how many year groups you get. But there'll be 200 ,000 people hearing it. uh through podcast or youtube or the live broadcast or um yeah so yeah it's brilliant and do do you know though what reaction you said you obviously hear some great questions do you have examples of people either coming to faith or moving in their journey do you get to see that side of things especially if you're going you know doing an event and then maybe disappearing and not coming back for a little bit of time um do you do you ever hear that side of things
Speaker: Yeah. That's a funny one to... gauge because um I think the thing that puts people off the way I do things the most is it's very, very impersonal and not pastoral. I never know kids names.
Speaker: um I maybe recognize some faces, but because I'm dealing with hundreds and hundreds and thousands on a weekly basis. across 11 schools. um I don't really get to know young people very much and no one really gets into youth work to not.
Speaker: not get to know young people. um So I don't hear that many stories myself, but the stories do get through. it's It's only the tip of the iceberg. But young people do constantly say, oh, yes, I changed my mind on this. I'm going to church now. I'm taking my parents. And that's always like really amazing to to hear that.
Speaker: someone's um really given. given thought to what has been said and been impacted but um i think the main experience I get. is people are thinking and changing their mind a lot um one thing you certainly gauge is the atmosphere when i started five years ago um Any talk about faith?
Speaker: um particularly in the religious schools, like the Catholic school and the Church of England school, was was met with scoffing and laughter. and um almost as if I needed to grow up. That's just a sneery sarcasm and and a casual dismissal. There is none of that now. That died years ago. It's remarkable how quickly that changed. And that's because there's only so many times that a teenager can meet a world -class...
Speaker: scientist or professor from oxford and cambridge who's got a living faith and think that this is stupid and dumb and only for for stupid people who've been brainwashed. like you you you ah Oversaturation. Aylesbury's been oversaturated. with so many academics who have a living faith that that has died like we that doesn't exist anymore in our town um um someone one of the producers from premiere said casually no young person in aylesbury
Speaker: would dare say that science has made belief in God impossible. And I said, oh, that's very interesting. Why do you say that? And she's just said oversaturation. um And that that you can see. So the temperature has changed. The atmosphere has changed. The kind of conversations you have about faith have changed.
Speaker: and the frequency of those conversations has gone up. dramatically. It's now very, very normal to talk about faith. in more academic and intellectual terms.
Speaker: It's a more thought through conversation. with young people in our town. because of what's happened in the last five years. That is extremely noticeable. That's obvious. It is just different. having those conversations in Aylesbury than it is to other places.
Speaker: um I have seen a lot of teachers become Christians. um in the last few years that's That's always really interesting. Um, And those those stories, you know, they're a journey because you you forget sometimes that actually teachers are listening to everything as well.
Speaker: Yeah, very true. uh when when they're not trying to get a bit of marking done at the back on the quiet Yes. Brilliant. Well, thank you so much. It's a shame we can't carry on talking. here I just love your passion and your vision, both your sort of how you're trying to get the scale up, but also the quality and sort of quantity. and
Speaker: quality and it does make me think that um need to get our kids into aylesbury catchment area of schools but actually it'd be wonderful wouldn't it if if every area in britain is covered with such good content and i know it's easier to do in certain places but as you say that there are that you can get people into places and aylesbury isn't the obvious place either so it's wonderful to hear what you're doing so i mean ah a great place to start you you do have organizations that are committed to this so i'd point people to the faraday institute for science and religion and always have a look at the people they have and you can email them. They have a youth and schools team.
Speaker: um Then there's the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. They've got some some people who are very skilled at speaking to young people, and some of them are ah quite qualified and have done some good stuff themselves. um then there's ah obviously i Point people to SOLAS. They'll be able to tell you some interesting people. Andy knows lots of people. I invite David to speak in your school. um And then there's Christians in Science. I'm on the board of Christians in Science. We've got so many incredible people.
Speaker: And I lean on them very heavily for my guests. So like you know go look in these places. There's plenty of people around.
Speaker: Thank you so much. Yeah, well, it's really really encouraging to hear all the work that's going on. And I'll just finish by saying actually in my own teenage son, there was an event put on by a world leading American scientist. He came, he's in a school that doesn't get these kinds of speakers very often. And it was actually a combined school event. And he went and absolutely loved it. And he particularly liked just the encouragement of hearing this really, really top rate academic saying why he believed and and also sharing stuff about the science as well. and It was a huge encouragement. so So thank you so much, Sam, for sharing that amazing vision. It's very, very exciting. And thank you, Dave, also for being with us. And thank you all very much for listening. Do tune in again in a couple of weeks when we'll have another inspiring guest on the Pet Talk from Solas. Bye -bye for now.
