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Keep the momentum

“Stand firm and don’t be shaken. Always keep busy working for the Lord. You know that everything you do for Him is worthwhile.” 1 Corinthians 15: 58

AFTER a busy year of equipping, encouraging and inspiring the young people of the church, now is the perfect time to look back and reflect on all that Year of Young People (YoYP) offered.

Congregations up and down the country were quick and eager to take up the theme and highlight all that their young people had to offer, and as a young person myself, the year certainly brought about many opportunities to engage, participate and celebrate within the church. At a time where the church inds itself perhaps lacking the number of young people in pews we would wish, it has been a heartening year to ind congregations get behind this initiative and get behind the young people we have.

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