Today was a day where I feel I achieved a mass of stuff.
I got to grips with some study on the Kingdom of God (my chosen assignment title) this morning before shooting off to Cambridge to have lunch with a great guy called Jim who is the new YFC director there.

I listened to Jim’s story and heard about his dreams and we bounced a few ideas around. If you are in the Cambridge area you should get in touch!

On the way to and from Cambridge I was able to have 3 long phone conversations with people in centres. These were discussions of excitement and difficulties, the nitty gritty of youth ministry. It’s easy to think youth ministry is all glamour when in fact it is a lot of hard graft and sacrifice particularly as far as social life (people socialise at the same time than young people go to youth groups etc so you miss out on the gatherings), finance (youth workers are paid less than other generally), hassles (everyone blames young people and it’s always the youth workers fault.

I was reminded today that it is a real sacrifice to be in frontline youth ministry, although I do not believe there is a better job in the world to be called to!

So, if you know a youth worker – why not encourage them today and show them how much you appreciate what they are doing.