What would you say?
I wonder, if you had the attention of twenty 11-15 year olds, for half an hour, once a week – what would you want to say to them? And would they be interested in what you had to say?! Once a week, I am amazed that a group of young people, almost none of whom would call themselves Christians, or attend a Christian church regularly, noisily troop into the chapel in their Church of England secondary school, crack open their packed lunches or balance their school dinner on their knees, and willingly engage with a middle-aged mum who has turned up to teach them something about the Christian faith. I still have to pinch myself that I'm allowed this opportunity. If you asked me the question at the top of this post – what would I choose to say to a group of 11-15 year olds? - it would be exactly what I'm allowed to do on a Wednesday lunchtime, every week of term time – tell them about the God who made them, knows them, loves them, and wants to speak to them – them personally – through...