Persistance

yesterday I wrote about the importance of consistancy within youthowrk, and the fact that possbily one of the reasons why most youthwork doesn't see much growth is due to a lack of consistancy by ose who have an overall authority or vision for it. If there is no cosistancy, then there is unlikely to be any great fruit seen from that work. today I want to talk briefly about persisistance. young people seem to value the fact that osmetimes there is someone or even a couple fo people, who iwll stick by them regardless of the situation. I remember walking and having some stones thrwon at me and a fellow worker, and we had to make a decision about what to do, we carried on walki otwards this group, as we knew them. The group asked us why we continued walking towards them when they were throwing stones at us, and we told them that regardless of what they did, and who they were, we would sitll love them, and god sitll loved them as well. This evening changed our relationship with those young people, and our relationship strengthened because we hd shown persistance regardless of the situation. god himself shows persistance as he never gives up on us, even though we let him down so much, so we need to show that to our young peple as well.