The first youth worker: what can we learn from an ancient mentor?

Who was the first Christian youth worker? If you’re thinking strictly in terms of the modern profession, then the answer may lie in names like George Williams, who set up the YMCA in the 1840s, or Hannah More, who set up a kind of Sunday school over 50 years earlier. But if you want to think of the question another way - in terms of who first engaged with young people in a way that looks something like modern youth work - then you need to go further back. Actually, a lot further.