Llongyfarchaidau! – Congratulations!

A great cheer of “congratulations!”, or more appropriately for a charity based in Wales “llongyfarchaidau!” to our centre director Mr Tim Gough and one of our mainstay volunteers at Llandudno Youth for Christ, Mr Dewi Thomas.

Both Tim & Dewi recently attended evening award galas in London for their endeavours in Christian youth work. Tim Gough was nominated for the Premier Digital Award’s ‘Most Inspiring Leadership Blog’ for his Blog ‘Youth Work Hacks‘. Dewi was nominated for the award of ‘Volunteer Youth Worker of the Year’.Both attended swanky evenings with food and music preceding the main event of the awards. Tim won the ‘Most Inspiring Leadership Blog’ award and Dewi won an honourable mention for the ‘Volunteer Youth Worker of the Year’ Award.

You can view the information about the Premier Digital Awards here; and the Youthwork awards here (Dewi’s nomination is mentioned from around 45mins in on the video at the top of the webpage).

Congratulations to both of them!

Well done, and its great to see them receiving recognition for the hours they have given praying for and working with young people in Llandudno and beyond to relevantly share the good news of Jesus.

Dewi is currently attending Nexus ICA; “Europe’s leading faith-based music institute”. Where he is working hard to hone and expand his giftings in music and teaching the Bible.

It’s great to see God taking him further along in his journey of faith, and for Dewi to have the opportunities to grow in the amazing gifts given to him; gifts that blessed the work at LLYFC so much.

We pray that he will be as much a blessing at Nexus as he has been here in Llandudno.

It’s also great to see that the work that Tim puts into resourcing other youth workers is being recognised. He is so passionate about seeing the youth workers and church leaders empowered and resourced to take the gospel to the young people in their communities and see lives impacted and changed for eternity.

Not only does Tim regularly put interesting, stimulating and resource-rich blog posts up for people to read, but each month he hosts a youth work training evening that is a real boon to those who attend. The ‘Monthly Meet’ is held (normally) on the third Monday of the month during term time. For more information, please check out the Facebook page.

As well as congratulating them. I want to equally say congratulations to everyone who has faithfully supported this ministry in prayer, with finances and with their time. Tim & Dewi would not have had the opportunities to do what they have done without all of you; so ‘THANK YOU!’

PS: Please continue to pray for both Tim & Dewi, that God would continue to use them and that lives would be changed as a result.

PPS: If you are interested in, like Dewi, being a volunteer at LLYFC, please don’t hesitate to contact us.