Remembered in the time of old age
God is using local churches to create a place of belonging for the elderly
n 2014, one year into my community worker role with a brief to focus on older people, I attended an event where someone shared their vision for a nowglobal youth ministry: “I was standing over the city and I felt like everything needs to be poured into the young people!”
I would never argue with the way God continues to use this ministry in remarkable ways, but I couldn’t escape my inner reaction: What about the older people?! Three words dropped into my...
Ecclesiastes 12 starts “remember your creator in the days of your youth”, followed by a poetic description about aging, before it concludes with “before the silver cord is snapped”. As I read...
My role in the church didn’t begin as a community worker. I was first employed as a youth worker, but around the time of my own ‘spiritual awakening’, the leadership were exploring with me what...
I had such a loving upbringing, belonged to an incredible church family, and now experienced the reality of being in the grip of a loving God. The thought of the many local people who knew none...
