GYM: Guildford Youth Movement is a youth project run by St Joseph's RC Church, Guildford

GYM is an open, accepting, non-judgemental and fun environment for young people in the Guildford area where they can grow as a community. GYM seeks to understand, encourage and empower young people aged between 13-18 years of age, in their search for meaning of life for today and provides a model of how Jesus met with people.

Tim Spurgeon was invited by Fr Ian (former parish Priest for St Joseph's) to set up GYM, with the remit to create a 'youth movement' rather than a 'youth club'. The idea behind a youth movement was to create an environment for young people in the Guildford area where they could grow as a community. Tim says "For me, GYM has come to represent a model of the way in which Jesus met with people, on one level - open, accepting, non-judgemental and yet at the same time a powerful, life-changing encounter". After 5 years of amazing work at St Jo's, Tim is taking a well deserved break to spend some quality time with his family in lucky NZ.

GYM is now run by , who was appointed as Parish youth coordinator for St Joseph's Church in September 2007. We have been exploring discipleship at GYM this year through "Discipleship Training Series 1 - My New Life" by Tim Hawkins.