Commitment?

tis is a subject that has been around in the news this week with the greatest team on earth, Man United, winning the champions league on wednesday night as well as winning the premiership the week before. Not many people know, that Man United nearly got rid of Sir Alex Fergison just before thsi great winning streak started, because he ahd not won anything in his first gfew years. But the club committed to him, and he committed to the club, and now they are the most successful club over the last 18 years or so. And a large amount of this is due to cmmitment, commitment on behalf of the manager and on behalf of the owners of the club. The intersting thing is that people have left Alex Fergison alone to go and do what he knows how to do, and sometimes people need to leave youth workers alone to do what they know how to do, but also there is something in the commitment, the long term commitment that Alex has shown to Manu. I know of a youthwork near us here in Harrogate that now has over 30 young people on their books and it is growing, and that is largely due to the cmmiment of the people who run it as wlel as the leaders of the church leaving them alone to get on with what they know how to do. So there is our challenge, how committed are we to what we are doing.