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A secondary school in the UK uses Vox to encourage students in their faith.
We are coming up to one year of Vox by Christianity Explored. Vox is a 4-part series based on the gospel of Luke, aimed at young people to engage them where they are and create a safe space for all their doubts, thoughts and questions.
Jill Silverthorne is the head teacher of Church of England secondary school, Bishop Stopford in Kettering. Jill reached out to let us know that they’ve been running Vox as part of their Christian Union lunchtime sessions.
In these sessions, both presentations and discussions have been led by Christian sixth form students and they’ve had over 50 younger students attending... in their own time!
The students from years 7-10 were asked their thoughts on the Vox sessions they’d been a part of, and here’s what they had to say:
What the students said
Q: What have you enjoyed about Vox?
"Vox is really great and people can get a lot out of it because you can learn life lessons in general, learn about God and following Jesus, and just have a nice time."
"Looking at the Bible from other people's perspectives has really helped me deepen my faith and I've now got a new favourite book in the Bible, I really liked Luke, all of it."
"I’ve learned a lot more about my faith in general. I’ve always been a Christian but I’ve never understood it in a way like this, so Vox has really helped me to understand it."
Q: What did you get out of Vox?
"I’ve just learned loads about Christ and loads of different types of Bible verses that I didn’t know about before, and it just really interested me knowing all that new stuff about Christianity."
"Doing Vox has given me a better understanding of what’s it’s like to be a Christian. Me myself, I’m a Christian, but I didn’t really know a lot about my faith until now."
We also heard from the sixth form leaders who lead the sessions for the younger students. Here's what they had to say:
What the leaders said
Q: Can you tell us what you’ve noticed about the way the younger students have responded to Vox?
"They’ve been really engaged with the videos, taking the information in. Afterwards we hear what they think about the content and they give some really deep answers, so they’ve thought about it quite a bit and generally engaged really well."
Q: How do you think the students have responded to it being led by students and not teachers?
"There was a comment that was made by one of the younger students about how they really enjoyed the sixth form students being the leaders because it makes it feel more personal to them. When you’re in a group and you’ve got someone leading who’s not much older than you, it’s easier to tell some of your thoughts because they can relate to it more."
It is so encouraging to hear that in schools in the UK, the gospel is still being sounded out!
We look forward to hearing more stories of how and where this course is being used, and young people being encouraged to ‘share what matters.’