If you want your heart filled with hope, your mind stimulated with ideas, and your hands equipped with practical tools, then this episode is for you…

Honestly? It’s pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥!

And make sure you stay right to the end — because Phil shares one of the best youth ministry hacks you’ll ever hear. Absolute gold. 💛

Phil Knox is the evangelism and missiology specialist at the Evangelical Alliance, and brings years of youth ministry experience and insight to our conversation. 

In this episode we unpack the missional trends shaping 2026, and what they mean for youth ministry.

We explore the key trends every youth leader should be paying attention to:

📊 Why the UK spiritual climate is shifting — what recent research and cultural changes reveal about growing spiritual openness.

✨ A new spiritual openness — why 2026 may be the most spiritually open year in living memory, and how youth ministries can respond with authentic encounters with God.

🔍 The rise of the unexplained — why dreams, spiritual experiences and unexpected moments may draw young people toward faith.

❤️ Compassion and the gospel reconnecting — how youth ministries can join the dots between social action and faith sharing.

📖 Booming Bible engagement — why Bible sales are skyrocketing and why young people are arriving with serious questions about truth.

🌱 New discipleship pathways — how we help young people move from curiosity to lifelong apprenticeship to Jesus in a digitally distracted world.

If you’re passionate about helping young people encounter Jesus and BREAKOUT in mission, justice, social action and evangelism, this episode will encourage, challenge, inspire and equip you.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Enjoy! 🎧

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