Many crucial events in God’s Word find a young person centre-stage. Just ponder for a moment what some of the Bible’s heroes accomplished, when they were young people...

Rebekah - Showed incredible faith by serving and consenting to marry Isaac, journeying with him into the unknown (Gen. 24)

Joseph - Rejects sexual sin when advanced upon by a powerful, older woman (Gen. 39)

Samuel - Called to speak to God’s nation during their most fearful and difficult times (1 Sam. 3)

David - Defends God’s honour and holiness against a giant (1 Sam 17)

Esther - Risks taking a plot against her people to the King, saving many (Est. 2)

Josiah - Lives righteous before the Lord as a child and pursues hard after God as a teenage King (2 Kgs. 22)

Daniel - Commits to remaining pure in Babylon surrounded by idolatry that makes our world look tame (Dan. 1)

Mary - Remained a virgin and trusted in God’s promise of a virgin birth (Lk. 1)

At the very heart of God there is the heart of a youth worker. He simply loves to use young people, and does uncommonly world changing things with them as a matter of routine.