Engage team roles
Support children and young people in venues across the 3Generate Town.
"Looking back, young people’s responses to our questions showed some great passion/ideas for seeing God's kingdom come.”
Download the Venue Team role description (Pdf)
Teams:
A wide-range of venues across-site that cater for a variety of passions and interests, including The Arts Centre, The Theatre, The Rec, The Health & Wellbeing Centre and many more.
If you would like to apply to help at the 3Generate weekend, then please click on the relevant link below:
- New Delivery Team member ( use this link if you have not been to 3Generate before or since 2021)
- Apply as a returning Delivery Team member (this link is only for those who were part of the team for the 2021, 2022 or 2023 3Generate events)
The Town
The 2023 town consisted of 17 individual venues, all supporting a programme with a different emphasis.
The Town Square, is at the very centre of the town and boasts its own stone town cross and market stalls. It is space for “chilling” and Mingling, a space for deciding “what next. The market stalls hold information from charities and organisations. The Youth Reps use the space to interact with the children and young people and to hear their voice. The Methodist Way of Life team also had a presence in the Market Square with their “conference” spinner and magnets to help the children and young people understand the 12 values of the MWOL.
The Great Outdoors, is a place of exploration with climbing walls, a caving experience, forest craft, children and young people are able to consider their faith against a backdrop of Gods wonderful creation.
The Recreation Ground, hosts an inflatable sports pitch and encourages conversations about Christians in sport, about well-being and discusses other fitness questions.
The Tech Hub, is a place where technology is the medium that the children and young people use to explore faith. The team from Missional Generation supported this venue and explored faith through Virtual Reality.
The Wilderness, expressed as a desert scene with comfortable Yurts to go deeper into spirituality using amongst other things “take-time meditations. A tent of meetings was the centre piece of this venue and allowed children and young people to further explore spirituality.
A Health and Well-being Centre, stood at one corner of the Town square and ran a programme about being good stewards of ourselves. This included a visit by the ever popular therapy dogs.
Tucked away in a quiet corner of the town was the Sensory Space, with its own quiet yurt. The Sensory space was run by our additional needs team and was aimed at those that needed a quieter slower programme.
The Global space allowed us to focus a programme based upon the work of Global Networks, this included a zoom link up with Rev Dave Harman from Jerusalem.
The Town Hall has an emphasis on political debate and includes the “polling Station for the election of the Youth President.
Behind the Town hall was the Art Space which this year had a dual function, a large area to allow hands on art as a way of expressing oneself plus our new interactive art space which featured a piece of art from the Methodist Modern Art collection, the feeding of the 5000 that had been digitally worked and projected across walls and floor to provide an absorbing, reflective, meditative experience visited by many. The art work was also carried through into a weekend theme with the whole assembly concluding with a picnic in the park.
Adjacent to the Town hall was our venue for group leaders known as “The Well” which provides group leaders a place of rest and refreshment, as well as providing drinks and cake a programme aimed at support for children and young people’s group leaders in their ministry.
The inflatable Church stands on the town square and provides a drop in for prayer and meditation.
Further along the town square is the Theatre royal which provides an opportunity for a programme based upon performing arts and is managed for us buy our friends from “Play it by Ear”.
Adjacent to the theatre is a café “The Hope and Anchor” which is a base for staff from E&G and provides a space for conversation and engagement.
Our Park is one of our biggest venues, a place to ‘chill’ and reflect, a place to take time out from the programme, a place to bring everyone together for worship.
The Arena is a separate venue from the town, out of town you may say. But this is a large ‘concert’ venue that has soundproof qualities and provides opportunity for artists and bands to perform away from the confines of the busy town. This years programme included performances from Bladen Methodist Church, whose youth group has an emphasis on performing arts.
The 4-7’s venue this year was located adjacent to the park (and the toilets) and allowed 4-7 year olds together with a significant adult to engage with the 3Generate model and to have their voices heard as part of 3Generate.