Are our youth groups full of kids who look a bit like us?

I’m not racist, classist, ableist or homophobic but… it just so happens that most of my youth ministry experience has been among white, non-disabled, straight teenagers. That’s not particularly unusual or surprising, given that I’ve lived most of my life in white, middle-class Surrey. Nor is it particularly intentional; I’ve certainly never turned away a young person, or even consciously broadcast signals of rejection toward them, on the basis of their colour, background, physical ability or sexuality. But that doesn’t make it ok.