The strategy, which aims to enable young people to get more involved in making decisions about the direction of the church, will be launched at the Methodist Youth Conference in Northampton from November 21 to 23. The conference will be attended by around 150 16 to 23-year-olds.
Thirty two young people will be employed as part-time district youth enablers and one young person will be elected as a full-time youth president. All posts are salaried.
Sarah Malik, 20, Youth Conference chair, said: 'This is the first stepping stone of the Youth Participation Strategy with young people actually participating in the Methodist Church. With the new system, there will be lots of support in place to help young people who want to make a difference.'
The conference will also elect young people to form a group to investigate how local churches could address the issues that lead to violence among young people, including knife crime
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