Friday 1 February 2013

Unknown Tribes


Our speaker last Sunday was Mads Morgan, the Diocesan youth adviser. She reminded us how Christ had told us to proclaim the news of His Love to the whole world – and as a result mission workers had gone out to the remotest tribes on earth. But she showed us how youth today are just like those tribes – they have their own culture – they speak their own language – they dress in different ways – they do not behave like "us." And there are multiple different sub-tribes – Goths, footie fans, rockers, techies, nerds etc, each with a different culture and different language. The Christian youth worker needs to get to know them in detail in order to be able to share Christ's love – and it will take time.

Let's pray for our youth workers and for all the young people with whom they come into contact.