tim.gough
I’ve been in full time Christian Youth Work in London for about 4 years, and part time for 6 years before that in London & Blackpool. During the later end of that time I did vicar training at Oak Hill Theological College for 3 years. Its been an amazing journey & I’ve stacked up some great stories & memories along the way.
I’m currently working at the only Youth for Christ Center in Wales – check us out on www.llandudno-yfc.co.uk
I love the outdoors, rock climbing, good food, unsigned music, comfy chairs, hammocks, & Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
(My LinkedIn profile (copied at the bottom of this page) has a wee bit more info / a slightly different angle.)
I’m married to an awesome Californian lady called Katie – who is a writer & you can check out some of her work by following the link in the ‘about my wife’ section below.
I’m passionate about making youth programs and events more kingdom orientated and effective; teaching young people how to think and reason; and sharing life as a journey in community. I’ve also spent a big portion of the last 3 years reading and researching classical, modern, and emerging youth ministry ideas and methods. I want this to be a place to share/discuss some of the gold from those books, blogs, and conversations.
Hopefully there’s some helpful & digestible tidbits of encouragement & instruction in here for you to use if, like most youth workers, you just ain’t got the time to sift through all those books people keep buying you!
Enjoy. Comment. Add to the conversations.
Thanks.
About my Wife:
(from her writing blog: http://idiolalia.wordpress.com/)
I am a 
writer and artist living in North Wales.
I am creative, quirky, awkward, strange, humorous, hopeful, quiet, fun, and inquisitive. {idiolalia.
blue-green. mythopoeic. growing. in love & blessedly married}
My passion in life is to make a pressed-down-flat-in-black-and-white medium loom up into contagious
monuments of a full and colored life. I am driven, almost in reverse, to redeem what is flattened in ‘real’
life and to celebrate its true form.
essentially, i write. and think. and make mixed media messes :)
More about Tim – copied from LinkedIn Profile
Summary
Tim is a full time youth & children’s worker with experience in teaching, event management, and small scale youth ministry consultancy.
Currently working at the only YFC Centre in Wales seeking the Kingdom of God to come in the lives of young people and old churches.
Married for nearly 4 years to Katie, a writer and mutil-media artist from California.
Is working on a short writing project on apologetics for teenagers, and is further painstakingly writing up 7 years of small group Bible Study notes.
Tim really loves the outdoors, enjoys hiking and rock climbing, and is loving living in North Wales.Has lived in Blackpool, North London, South London, and North Wales. (And a little bit in California).
Specialties
Small groups. Apologetics specifically geared for young people. Setting up youth programs in small contexts. Event organisation and planning. All Age Worship.
Center Director
Youth for Christ, Llandudno
May 2011 – Present (7 months) North Wales – I direct the only YFC Centre in Wales. Its a big challenge & v-rewarding.
Youth & Children’s Minister
Christ Church Beckenham
August 2007– May 2011 (3 years 10 months) South London – Oversaw the development of all the work with 0-18s, and local schools.
Roadie, PA Engineer
Stage Box Systems
2002 – 2004 (2 years) – Mainly gaffer tape!
+ Various Retail Positions before this inc. Stockroom Manager & Checkout Supervisor.
Education
Oak Hill Theological College – Hons Degree in Theology & Pastoral Studies 2004 – 2007
Blackpool 6th Form College – ALevels in RS, Psychology, Sociology, Politics, Critical Thinking, Communication
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