1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,000 I'm going to be talking about something a little bit 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,600 different, you know, already were talking about spaces. 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,200 So it's in this context were talking about spaces but I don't 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,200 get to knock down walls, as exciting as that. 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,500 Would be as a project, I'd love to oversee, something like that. 6 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,300 Maybe that's the next thing I could be doing next year more, 7 00:00:13,300 --> 00:00:15,600 we can think about that. We're talking about a different 8 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,200 type of space. But spaces are all contextually 9 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,700 their places. There are opportunities there 10 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:24,900 avenues for people to come into contact with Jesus. 11 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:28,000 Are people who maybe haven't come into contact with Jesus yet 12 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:29,800 or maybe people who have understood something? 13 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,600 Jesus something of God add that needs to be welcomed in deeper 14 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,200 and so we're talking about that in the context of this, we are 15 00:00:37,208 --> 00:00:42,000 talking about young adults, so yeah, yeah, this is very 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,900 exciting rather. I've been hyped about this for a 17 00:00:43,908 --> 00:00:47,800 long time, but the opportunity is now our visits so the key 18 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,500 group that the laws needing us to now and like Mark said, we 19 00:00:50,508 --> 00:00:53,600 don't just kind of pick a map and put some dots in of where we 20 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,700 think is a good place to aim. We strategically pray. 21 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,800 Now we seek God's spirit. Hey, stir stuff within us. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,900 We move at and say he's been doing that in US, particularly 23 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:04,599 around. This age group are young adults. 24 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:08,500 So, I'm talking around 18 to 25, young adults. 25 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:09,500 Could be a little bit younger than that. 26 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:11,500 Could be a little bit older than that, but this is specifically 27 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,500 that age group, but but why is this age group? 28 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:18,900 So critical I hear you ask at every age and stage of church. 29 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:22,200 Family is vital, isn't it? We're not specialize in a 30 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,000 certain area in a unique way. We're not saying this area of 31 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 church. Life is better than any other 32 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,100 area. We are all unique, we will 33 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:33,400 gifted I will have a special place in God's kingdom, but why 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,500 in this age group? Are we looking at that bone? 35 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:36,800 Look at Bible, verse for help us. 36 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,200 Think about that. So, we're going to go to 37 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:43,300 Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4 and this is 38 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:47,300 verses 11 to 16. And it says this. 39 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:50,500 So Christ himself gave the apostles Prophets, The 40 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:53,700 evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers to equip his 41 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,200 people. For works of survey that the 42 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,800 body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the 43 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,000 faith. And in the knowledge of the Son 44 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,600 of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure 45 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,600 of the fullness of Christ. And we will no longer be infant 46 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,600 us back and forth by the way. And blown here and there by 47 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,300 every wind of teaching by the cunning and craftiness of people 48 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:21,200 in their deceitful scheming. Instead be thinking the truth in 49 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,100 love we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of 50 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:28,900 him. Who is the head that is Christ 51 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,400 from him. The whole body Jordan held 52 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,300 together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself 53 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:41,000 up in love as each part. Does its work. 54 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,600 Work at down my role here. As a pastor is to oversee, some 55 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,900 of that stuff happening in our church, family, as a church. 56 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:54,900 Pastor group, how we oversee that for our zeros to 99 + add 57 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:57,900 that might be a 50 Road. Might be a fire five-year-old. 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,100 At it might be a single, it might be a parody, might be 59 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:05,300 both, it might be, neither we're here to support and oversee and 60 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:08,500 to bless people as they grow in their wall. 61 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:14,400 But notice in those verses, A collective responsibility to our 62 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,200 work all together as a family as a group to do the work of 63 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,800 ministry as pastors. We are enabling equipping it 64 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,000 equipping but it's on us all as a family to do the work of 65 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,600 ministry. And so as a group, we are 66 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,500 empowered. We are strengthened to love and 67 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:34,600 serve and bless and disciple. A one another. 68 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:37,000 There's a phrase that's big in the vineyard movement. 69 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,800 Everyone gets to play some of us, might be feeling familiar 70 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,000 with that phrase if you're not there. 71 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:44,700 Gain familiarity at the idea that every age and stage of 72 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,400 life, you are part of this journey, you are part of making 73 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,100 things happen. We're doing this together. 74 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:59,400 So why this age group? Why 18 to 25 why now? 75 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:09,500 There's two big reasons and then I'm going to go on to a few 76 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,800 others. But two big reasons, if you look 77 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,000 around you might not spot. Many 1825. 78 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,800 A gap avoid points to a need, doesn't it? 79 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,300 And so as a church family we are impoverished by not having 80 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,200 certain demographics. Represent it. 81 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,100 That's point one. We don't have 1825 gathered here 82 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:35,900 in many numbers. At the second thing is those who 83 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:39,600 are here and we love you, we don't do a great job of 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,000 nurturing as supporting a blessing. 85 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,800 You we have lots of Ministries to up for other age groups. 86 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,300 We do very well under 18s but there are some gaps in our 87 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:51,700 ministry. This particular Gap that the 88 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,100 Lord's highlighted with 18 to 25 is at. 89 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:56,600 But I want to take this point. This moment just to say we have 90 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,800 noticed the Gap in 1825. Yes, but you might notice gaps 91 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,100 elsewhere in our church family. We are all on this Mission 92 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:06,300 together. Everyone gets to play as the 93 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,100 maybe if you spot a gap and maybe that's the Lord stirring 94 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,300 something in you to make a difference in that area. 95 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,900 I'm until it's one of the church pastors and see how you could be 96 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:17,100 serving to fill some of those gaps, but we're thinking about 97 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,600 18, 20, 25 Smalling. So I had one is, there are not 98 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,400 many 18 to 25 in our church family and the 18 to 25 in our 99 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,100 church family. Don't get the support and 100 00:05:26,108 --> 00:05:29,400 discipleship Bailey. But there are other factors 101 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:34,600 contributing to Y, 18, to 25 Y in this season of the church in 102 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,500 the UK. And you could say globally 103 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:41,100 looking at statistic, why is it now that we wanted to focus on 104 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:44,900 1825? Other news analogy, as some of 105 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:48,800 you are Flyers, frequent fliers. I'm not a frequent flyer and I'm 106 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,500 definitely not a frequent long-haul flyer. 107 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,500 If you're a long-haul fly there, you might be familiar with the 108 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,900 effect that Tailwinds and headwinds have on a journey. 109 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:00,900 You might be Either, if you're flying into a headwind, it just 110 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,500 takes that little bit longer to get to the destination. 111 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,800 There are seven hour flight to America might be affected by as 112 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,700 much as an hour, if you've got a tail wind, that's the idea that 113 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:14,000 you've got a bit of a push from a gale, the wind itself, helping 114 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,900 you in that direction. And so things are a bit quicker, 115 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:20,000 things are a bit smoother. You'll shave off some of that 116 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,300 travel time at now. There are cultural head win and 117 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:29,200 cultural tell win that effect. Gospel progress. 118 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:33,800 I want to look at these together, but as I do as we do, 119 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:35,700 I want us to be aware and holding tension. 120 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:38,700 These two important gospel truths that were talking about 121 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:42,400 Tailwinds of headwinds as if God needs a hand or as if God's 122 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,600 hindered we know that's not true. 123 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,400 We serve a powerful good Mighty God and he is not affected by 124 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,300 culture. His gospel purposes are not 125 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:52,700 slowed up or sped up by what's happening around her. 126 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,700 But at the same time we want to be culturally sensitive and 127 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,400 aware of what's happening in the world around us that we can 128 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,100 speak into situations. Well, And find opportunities for 129 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,600 breast, the gospel. And so I'm going to talk about 130 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,500 three Tailwinds and three headwinds just but with a 131 00:07:07,508 --> 00:07:10,700 headwind things that might slow up some gospel progress, 132 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,100 shrinking nominalism, you might be aware of. 133 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,300 Your mind will be aware of covid. 134 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:16,800 Had a pretty big effect on people. 135 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,800 A particular Church setting and there's a group of people who 136 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,600 might have come along to church at nominally, maybe Christmas 137 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,600 Easter or maybe every other month or pin and see what's 138 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,000 going on in a church. That number of people has shrunk 139 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,700 dramatically over the past two years, in 1825 that has shrunk, 140 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:40,300 right back that there's less people nominally attending a 141 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:42,700 church BT. And as we know, sitting under 142 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:47,300 God's word refines us teaches us highlights things in us and so 143 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:50,000 as we don't have that group of people coming along to church 144 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,700 just off their own backs, we're not getting people hearing the 145 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:56,300 gospel and therefore being able to respond to the boss. 146 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,100 But shrinking nominalism is having an effect in our church. 147 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:02,400 Shirt. Men's will hell. 148 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:07,300 One study recently suggest that in studios 18 to 25 year old, 149 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:10,800 there's been a four hundred and fifty percent increase in mental 150 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,500 health issue. If was struggling 1825, 151 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:18,500 particularly a struggling and they're the group that have gone 152 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:21,800 through, maybe their gcses and a-levels in the environment of 153 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,400 covid. They've come out into adulthood, 154 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,300 but in a way that looks very different to how they might have 155 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:31,700 anticipated children 18 to 25 to been affected in a way. 156 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:35,799 That means one, in three student, one in three, students, 157 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:41,000 for mental health, they shrink, and nominalism mental health. 158 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:44,800 And Lee identity. We live in a time where try 159 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,000 anything be anything, do anything is the message of the 160 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,300 day? And so people have our people 161 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:54,900 tried that in gender and sexuality and careers and all 162 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:56,800 sorts of ways, some good, some bad. 163 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,200 And people are starting to notice is clashing going on, 164 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:06,000 that is not working out in the way that they had envisioned. 165 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,000 This idea of you can be anything. 166 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,500 Do anything is crashing in on itself? 167 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:15,200 At the opportunity to be anything or do anything. 168 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,200 Is partly to do with shoulds though. 169 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,300 Shoulds and shouldn't. We live in a culture where that 170 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,100 gate far more open than we have been previously used to and we 171 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:29,600 also live in a time where can and can't a far bigger. 172 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,700 There's far more cans open to people and not talking about a 173 00:09:33,708 --> 00:09:34,800 can of dr. Pepper there. 174 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,100 But far more opportunities for people to do what they want to. 175 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:42,900 But young adults, therefore are not as clear or Their identity, 176 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:46,900 by the time, they reach 21, 21 used to be a bit of a benchmark. 177 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,400 Didn't it kind of 30 years ago of getting to that stage of 178 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:53,600 adulthood and knowing your career knowing your path knowing 179 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,900 your family plans, knowing all those sorts of things. 180 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:01,500 But now phrases are around. Like, 21 is the new 30 30. 181 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,300 Should I say the new 21? Let me put the right around the 182 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:08,100 idea that, by the time you reach 30 that's realistically with our 183 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:11,200 cultural norms stage that maybe some of us might find out when 184 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,600 we reached when One is taking longer develop through into 185 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,200 adulthood. We need to be aware of those 186 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,500 things. Shrieking, nominalism mental, 187 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:26,000 health, and identity on, look at three cultural Tailwinds and 188 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 this is incredible at across the church. 189 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,700 There is an increasing openness to God. 190 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,000 We've just been at a Vineyard leaders Gathering and some of 191 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,800 this language has come from that. 192 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,000 There is a wakening, there's a stirring, there's an awareness, 193 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,700 and a desire to fishing to God in the Young adults and we want 194 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:46,200 to lean into that. We want to make that as possible 195 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,700 as people to find Jesus as we can we don't want to be a 196 00:10:49,708 --> 00:10:52,400 hindrance or heard or will it be a highway. 197 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,900 And so church is uniquely positioned to offer, 198 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:02,000 well-trodden, Paths of hell and also experience of God, we can 199 00:11:02,008 --> 00:11:05,000 do that, we can be that we are able to buy it back. 200 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,700 Openness to God at realization that the model experiment hasn't 201 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:19,500 worked realization that the modern experiment has a work. 202 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,300 As I've said, already the culture of being anything and 203 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:27,100 everything is clashing on itself, there's polarization and 204 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,900 Division. And the idea of Tolerance has 205 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:34,500 gone so far that people now are intolerant of the tolerance. 206 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,400 So there's a confusion, there is society. 207 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:43,500 So something that might in some ways A headwind also has a 0 208 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:47,400 into it, finally. I first think tumult an 209 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,000 opportunity with so much uncertainty, confusion and loose 210 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 ground. The steadfast nature of the 211 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,300 Gospel is something we can offer. 212 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:59,700 People hand out to people, show to people in our lives. 213 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:03,900 And in our church family, we have a stability in Christ that 214 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:07,800 the world is yearning for, and we can hold out to them and we 215 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,900 can hold out to our young adults. 216 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:12,600 The time to act is now now, so I'm excited. 217 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,400 We're excited to announce as part of our reach 23. 218 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:20,600 We are wanting to create new spaces for our young adults and 219 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,800 the vision for this. Yeah, the vision for this. 220 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:27,000 Yeah, but Hallelujah in the house. 221 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:31,100 Love that Thiago. The vision for this is threefold 222 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,200 is bigger than this, but it's partly this. 223 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,900 And we want to create a space to belong, somewhere. 224 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,600 Young, adults are comfortably. We'll just click create a space 225 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,900 to connect. T', place the squat wrong 226 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:46,100 relationships that are based in love and wellness, space Rive 227 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:49,100 and where people can be transformed to live out 228 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:53,400 everything but has in store. Yeah. 229 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,600 Then I'm doing for time. I think we're good. 230 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:01,600 Okay, good. Provided amazingly for this 231 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,300 earlier, in the year, our sat down and thinking about how we 232 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:07,200 make this stuff happen and obviously, for make things to 233 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,800 happen. We need team around us. 234 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,700 May when you Financial provision, we different things 235 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,900 to take place. And so I've been praying at. 236 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:15,800 See you've been praying and thinking about this for a little 237 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:21,600 while and we amazingly were gifted a large sum of money at 238 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,200 the time that we were seeking God and pursuing opportunities. 239 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:28,100 Or young adults. And this lump sum of money has 240 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:30,400 allowed us to do something, which is really wonderful. 241 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,400 So, it was a bit of a celebration note for something 242 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,800 that's taking place next door. If you don't know already next 243 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,200 door, Adventureland and youth. You knowit is taking place, 244 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,200 which is where both groups are together across the whole of the 245 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,500 other side of the building doing, all sorts of fun and 246 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:47,600 games connecting relationally, and hearing about Jesus, a guy 247 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,400 who's really influential in that being able to happen in that to 248 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,700 happen. Well, is a wonderful guy who has 249 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:55,000 moved from an associate youth pastor position. 250 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,900 To a full-time youth, pastor position. 251 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,200 And so I want to give a little whooping clap to a guy called 252 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,000 Puli. Yes. 253 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,800 If you're, if you're watching this back call, we love you. 254 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,800 We appreciate you. Thank you for everything you're 255 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,000 doing currently next door with our young people. 256 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:14,300 You are amazing. We are so blessed to have you as 257 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:17,200 part of the team. So it means that with poor 258 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,400 full-time, it gives me a bit of a freed up week and not 259 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,600 entirely, but some freed up time to be able to focus on our young 260 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,800 adults. And so that gift that provision 261 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,200 has been able to make a way for me to be able to focus on our 262 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,000 young adults. Adults alongside myself is my 263 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 beautiful wife, Charlotte. He's going to be volunteering. 264 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,100 Helping with young adults and we've already heard her name 265 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:42,100 already around the building. We're going to hear it in the 266 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:43,800 months and years to come. I'm sure Yasmin. 267 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,500 I don't know if she's in the building at the moment. 268 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:49,100 She's been incredible. Ready and she'll be influential. 269 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:52,800 I'm sure with more things as the young adults miniscule, Rose in 270 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,000 many ways. But we've got to do much and it 271 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,600 takes many more names than the knees, you've just heard. 272 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,300 Yeah, we've already said today, it takes us as a family, doesn't 273 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,900 it? Takes us together to bless to 274 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:08,600 serve to nurture to grow the church and to grow 1825. 275 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,300 It takes us all. And so the three areas that 276 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:14,600 we're going to be focusing on looking at with our group of 277 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,900 young adults of these. At there's one group of young 278 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:20,500 adults who live study a permanently in Saint Albans or 279 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,400 the surrounding towns there, hit all year round and that's one 280 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,900 group of adults. And mother in a church family 281 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:30,300 already, some of them are not As a second group of adults and 282 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:34,800 they are the children in our church who grown up as Youth and 283 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,600 progress to adulthood. How do we, as a church family? 284 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,800 Love them. Well, as they go to university 285 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,700 and come back off term, which is Three Months of the Year, by the 286 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:47,100 way, you get nice breaks in University and then after 287 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:49,100 University, how do we nurture them? 288 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:52,500 And how do, welcome them back in because obviously, they returned 289 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:55,500 on Christmas and Easter and summer and they're too old to go 290 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,200 to the youth space now, but they're not really fully. 291 00:15:58,300 --> 00:16:00,300 Integrated into the wider church family. 292 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:02,800 So how do we love them? Well, how do we help them as? 293 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,200 So, we were going to be thinking of people like Isaac and others 294 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,700 who are growing up and just about to move to University. 295 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,100 And some already who are at University, how do we blessings? 296 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,700 Will them? And this is an incredible 297 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:15,600 number, okay, so this is the third thing. 298 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,900 So you'll be aware of the University. 299 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:19,700 That's not far away from us at all. 300 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,600 At you. My know how many students are in 301 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,400 a university. You might know how many nations 302 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,000 are represented, but here are some numbers. 303 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,300 There are 32 thousand University. 304 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,500 You didn't just across the road from us. 305 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:35,300 The University of Hertfordshire within that thirty two thousand, 306 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,400 thirteen thousand of them are international students. 307 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:44,200 Representing 100 nation, the nations are literally on our 308 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,000 doorstep. There's an opportunity to reach 309 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Nations that we might not be able to fly to travel to speak 310 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 into because we can serve and bless students when they're 311 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 here. Teach them about Jesus and 312 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,800 they're empowered to go back to their countries. 313 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:00,800 The The massive opportunity there on the University from. 314 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,400 I've already started conversations with fusion and 315 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,000 you CCF. You might be aware of those 316 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,700 organizations, they work with churches and work with students. 317 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:11,500 And what about University age? So conversations happening 318 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:18,099 there, which is really exciting. Yeah, there are just a lot of 319 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:22,099 young adults to reach, Mark, I might be affecting in a budget 320 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:25,200 with budget request next year, for a young adults, Pastor, 321 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,599 maybe two, we'll see how much we grow, right? 322 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:29,800 If the Lord blesses it and there's a need there for 323 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,800 reaching people and Jesus's name is being made, famous less lead 324 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,700 into that. I say some of the Practical 325 00:17:35,700 --> 00:17:37,800 things that we do will be running some social events some 326 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,400 stuff after church to my Sunday, we've already had a few dinners 327 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,100 at pubs together and we'll be doing stuff on a Friday evening 328 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:44,800 as well. Just Gathering socially with one 329 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,400 another, we're going to be starting and growing connect 330 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:48,900 groups as already one that's bubbled up. 331 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:51,000 Its me for the second time tomorrow night. 332 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:54,300 I just throw that word Yasmin out against has been incredible. 333 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:58,600 She little Powerhouse. And this is a really exciting 334 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,300 one. And the timeline is not fully 335 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:03,000 defined, but we think that Timber start. 336 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:08,600 We want to start in September a young adults, evening service. 337 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:16,000 Yeah. Yeah, we want to bless and serve 338 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,200 all of you as our church family. And but we want to think about 339 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,600 how 18 to 25 is, might get an evening that is focused on them, 340 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,800 to decipher them, to love them, to nurture them, the bless them 341 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,300 and to grow them. And so, those are some of our 342 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:35,000 initial thoughts on young adults, things that we'll be 343 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,200 running a couple other things, but we can skim past them 344 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,200 because I'm super aware of the time and I'd love to spend I'm 345 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,200 at just waiting on God. At the end of this, you might be 346 00:18:44,208 --> 00:18:45,800 asking, how can I be a part of this? 347 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:50,300 I guess, three headlines. Praying partnering as in 348 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:52,900 spending time with these young adults, yourselves, praying, 349 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,000 partnering and finance. Those three things are the 350 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Bedrock, Aunt, May of growing Ministry and discipling growing 351 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 people. And so maybe you'll be someone 352 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,800 who wants to pray into this and maybe you want to be on emails 353 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,200 to find out what's happening. So you fraying, maybe you're 354 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,400 someone who thinks, you know what actually I have my 355 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,600 Christian lie. Many years. 356 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,600 Some of you been walking for 20, 30, 40 years at the idea of 357 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,100 drawing alongside someone who's in their twenties, and might be 358 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:22,800 something that you can really bless in a mentoring context, 359 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,500 just to support them and nurture them apart of this Vineyard 360 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:30,000 leaders Gathering that we were at a point to me to a resource 361 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,300 by. Someone called Ruth Paran, is 362 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:36,100 the scholar based up in Borough and said that in some recent 363 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:39,400 studies that she has been a part of as she found that those who 364 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,200 thrived in their faith through Their 20s will had an older 365 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,100 friend in the church. Yeah. 366 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,500 If your guy maybe you could invite someone out for a beer, 367 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:51,100 who's 10, 20 years younger than you. 368 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,700 If you're a woman maybe you could meet up with then invite 369 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,500 them out for a beer or whatever. You do to hang out and get to 370 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,300 know one. Another are afternoon, teas 371 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:01,500 quite appealing and not say guys can't go for afternoon tea as 372 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,400 well then timer one, another connect to one another Joe. 373 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,600 Some of the people who've really blessed me and my life, and I'd 374 00:20:07,608 --> 00:20:09,300 like to think, maybe I've been a blessing to them. 375 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:12,000 Have been people much older. And there's a family that 376 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Charlotte and I go and visit each year up in the Lake. 377 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,300 District, whose children are teenagers. 378 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,900 But I got to know the family when I was in Liverpool, about 379 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:21,600 20 years ago and we got to know each other really. 380 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,000 Well, then, as I was a student and we've just journey together 381 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:27,500 the many years. And so, maybe there's people 382 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:29,700 that you can look out for. Maybe there's people you could 383 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:33,500 connect with the pray for relationally at a finance. 384 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,400 The reason why raved step into this boat quickly, it is because 385 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,300 someone was led by the Lord to give And maybe God could have 386 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:43,500 put that on your heart. Maybe you're someone who 387 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:47,200 financially and provide as we move forward in this way. 388 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,300 Though, you want to join the Jesus on his mission? 389 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:56,500 Yeah, this is very cool. Could I write fast you to stand 390 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:57,400 for these? Is that okay?