‘My church cut my hours’

By Dan Crouch is a youth worker in Keynsham, an MA student with CYM and a trustee of Sophia Network. Find him on Twitter: @DanCrouch. 2017-01-19T00:00:00

At the start of summer 2011, if you had asked me, ‘How’s life?’ my response would have been, ‘Life is good.’ I had been the fulltime youth worker in my home church for almost 18 months. I had married a wonderful and supportive woman just over a year earlier and we were newly-weds creating a shared life together.

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