Children and Youth is part of the Discipleship and Ministries Cluster in The Methodist Church Connexional Team.

The Connexional Team serves the Methodist Church in Britain, offering resources, training and expertise. Throughout the year, it undertakes the tasks required by the annual Methodist Conference

The Team has two main tasks:

• To provide training and resources to support the mission of local churches, circuits and districts,
• To act on behalf of the Methodist Church to help all parts of the Church to fulfil the programme, Our Calling and the Priorities for the Methodist Church

The Connexional Team maintains regular links with Methodist churches across Britain so that:

• The needs of churches, individual Methodists and other groups, for support and resources are known,
• The issues on which the Methodist Church should speak and act are known.

The Team is led by the general secretary of the Methodist Church, who is also the secretary of the Methodist Conference. The general secretary works with three connexional secretaries who are strategic leaders with responsibility for the Church’s internal relationships, the Church’s external relationships and the Connexional Team’s operations respectively; and five senior managers who are collectively responsible for the Team’s work.