What youth workers want to say to children’s workers

Often, the fragmented nature of our churches means that as we wave goodbye to children from our kids’ groups and send them off to the wild world of youth work, we never see them again. OK, this is a slight overexaggeration, but it reflects an unhelpful dichotomy that we’ve managed to create. In fact, the two disciplines need to listen and learn from each other. Youth work specialist and Premier Childrenswork’s founding editor Martin Saunders returns to these pages with some lessons from the world of youth ministry…