403 Network Pastors
Pastors, we want to care for you too. The 403 Network also hosts a range of events and gatherings for all youth or young adult pastors involved in the 403 Network, creating opportunity to network, engage in fellowship and friendship, and also just catch up. Youth & Young Adult ministry can get wildly busy, intense, and lonely. We want to ensure that you feel cared for, seen, and loved as you serve your community.
About
Youth/Young Adult Pastors who are involved with the 403 Network serve as pastoral liaisons. They have three primary functions:
Preparation
Wielding your existing youth ministry programs to intentionally mesh with the annual emphasis that year. This may include specific teaching series at regularly scheduled youth gatherings, calendaring 403 Events as a priority among your annual events and plans, and encouraging participation among your youth.
Financial
Potential financial backing of your students participation in 403 Events. Practically, this could look like a subsidy so that students who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend can be there.
Financial sponsorship of student-led evangelism and service initiatives as they arise from within your own ministry or through partnerships with others.
It is our goal to cover the vast majority of Rally expenses through the cost of our conference registrations. Thus keeping rallies free for the year and an easy access point for all—especially new believers or those our students have invited for the first time.
Practical
Supporting your youth-led team in any way necessary. Prayer and rallying prayer teams at your church; garner elder and staff endorsement; training events; corporate commissioning and encouragement; congregational story sharing; arranging for food and facilities, ironing out collaboration with other ministries in your neighbourhood; tangible resources like video curriculum or Bible; etc.
We deeply look forward to growing unity among our churches, and are grateful to God for what He has already begun and invited us to be a part of. As we enter a season of prayer, we have great expectations that God will humble our hearts and the flood gates of His blessing will pour out on us. We are asking God for one-thousand salvations this year.
Lunch & Learn
The 403 Pastors Lunch & Learn is a space to connect, share insights, wrestle with cultural shifts, and strengthen the work God is doing across our city.
No stage. No spotlight. Just leaders learning from one another to:
• Build trust
• Share vision
• Align strategy
• Strengthen unity across churches
Our next Pastor’s event will be in September (Fall Vision & Planning). Please email jeremiah.niengor@fa.church for more information!