Ministry in a digital space

2020-09-01T00:00:00

Over the past few months, youth and children’s groups have moved most of their work online – and social media has been more important than ever before. It’s been a necessity and we’ve all tried our best in engaging that way but, that hasn’t stopped there being negative pulses to it.

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