ABOUT US
YOUTHTRAIN is a charitable trust established in 1998 by Baptist Youth Ministries NZ, for the training, supporting and resourcing of youth leaders and youth ministries.
As such, we subscribe to the NZ Baptist Articles of Faith.
It is our conviction that:
Effective youth ministry is done in Spirit and in Truth: We rely on God's Word and wisdom as the basis for our practice, and God's Spirit as the indispensable dynamic for our practice. One of these without the other is ineffective in making disciples.
The calling of youth leaders is to minister life through the Holy Spirit: Our role is not to tell young people to "live right", but to help them experience and live in accordance with the Life God has placed within them.
Murray Brown has been the director of YOUTHTRAIN since its establishment and brings over forty years of experience in local church, regional and national youth ministry. He has led pre-teen, teenage and young adult ministries, both large and small, taught youth ministry at numerous Bible Colleges and coached many youth pastors over a twenty-year period.