A powerful and challenging guest blog from Nick Welford, Youth Worker extraordinaire in Scarborough.
I want to know, as a youth worker, what would your young people’s Love Your… be? Students have their own little bubble world – community, learning, work, psuedo-family, accomodation, social centre all in one place. For young people that’s not quite the same, so what would their Love Yours be and what would that look like?
What is an adventure? It's something new. It's something out of your comfort zone. It's something unpredictable, unexpected, exciting, and maybe even a little dangerous.
When they leave home for university, school leavers are looking for adventure. They're not interested in the mediocre, the safe, the normal. For many, pursuing their relationship with God is assumed to fit into the latter descriptions more than the former.
Last week I heard a powerful description of Gen Y (the generation including those currently in their last few years of school). James Lawrence said that, broadly speaking, Gen Y value choice over commitment. How heartbreaking.
Any student worker knows the difference it makes when a fresher turns up ready to hit the ground running. Every youth worker knows the tug of fear mixed with hope and anticipation when a young person leaves their last youth gathering before heading off to university.
Get it in.
Is youth group enough?
