net builders

this thought has been with me for a while now, but only properly formalised in a conversation I had with a Church leader this morning. For a net to catch anything in a number of things need to be in place. firslty, the ropes, and then the knotts that tie the ropes the togehter. It is easy in many ways to come up with ideas for our youth work, that would be the different ropes, but somehwere along the line the ropes need to tie together and the eality is that is where relationships come in. All the ideas need to be tied together, and they need to be tied together with strength and purpose otherwise they fall apart. Two challenges to this, one build those strong ties with our young epople so that they are linked and attached to what we are doing, but also bild those relaitonsips, and put those things in place to enable the young peope we work with to be caught in what we ar doing.