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What do you do when you realise you’ve built the ministry around you?

By Martin Saunders is the Director of Satellites, a new youth event helping young people to put God at the centre of their lives. His new book We Are Satellites, is out now, published by SPCK. 2017-02-16T00:00:00

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Rich was a brilliant youth worker. When he arrived at the church, teenagers, parents and volunteers alike were dazzled by his charisma and bowled over by his range of skills. He could preach, he could sing, he could play the guitar. He instantly built rapport with the core members of the youth group, and watched as they rushed to invite their friends to church as a result. Within nine months, the group had almost doubled in size, and the weekly youth congregations which formed the centre-piece of the church’s programme for teenagers were attracting over 150 young people. Rich was, apparently, smashing it.

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