another response

Thanks to the young person who has just put up a post.

Youth Yeah was for all the church, Each parish was invited to celebrate it as it chose to. most chose to do nothing. Each Dicoese was invited to celebrate as they chose to. i can make no comment other than that. Information and invitations for sent out for each of the five national and three tikanga events, including Forum, by me. I can make no comment as to what ahppened beyond that. I as constrained by what diocese do with that.

I applaud the baptist church you go to. But the politics is still there, maybe just not so easy to see. Sadly, we are all human.

And I am much more frustrated thta the role models are not offered you in you parish than I am about anything that we do at a Diocesan level. That is where we really have to lift our game. Why? because we are letting poeple like you down!

But if you think I am being too harsh, fair enough.

thanks

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Anonymous said…
All we hear is talk from you, Lets see you get in behind and support youth networks, ministry's etc. Enough Blogging get on with the job!
9:57 pm
Anonymous said…
Hey John...
Firstly mate, it could be time to turn on the filter to stop spammers dumping comments on your blog! Pretty easy to do in the settings part of your dashboard.
Secondly I would be interested in your thoughts from a post that I wrote late last year. Can be found here http://mrharvey.blogspot.com/2006/09/post-denomination_28.html
As a young person who has grown up in the scene with a dad who is an Anglican priest, worked in a Anglican church etc Im pretty discouraged with a lot that is happening around the place, but wanting to put that frustration into a positive alternative.
3:10 pm
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