You have a long-running relationship with Young Life. What could an Anglican parish relationship with Young Life or similar parachurch ministries look like?<\/p>\n
Young Life has church partnerships with congregations where they work together trying to reach high school kids in that area. The bottom line is that we can learn a lot from these people about how to reach people in that demographic. Young Life and some of these other organizations are just so skilled in how to reach the youth culture, and we\u2019re oblivious to it.<\/p>\n
People will tell me, \u201cWe don\u2019t have any teenagers in our church\u201d\u009d and don\u2019t know how to get any. Yet there is a high school down the street with 2,000 teenagers in it and it\u2019s like come on now, wake up, they are right there. But they don\u2019t know how to go there and get involved in youth culture. The same could be said with children\u2019s ministry. I think we have a lot of work to do there, and part of the role of the province is to help the dioceses be good at equipping their churches.<\/p>\n
We have a lot to learn from parachurch ministries, and many of them theologically are right where we are and are opening to sharing ministry and doing things together.<\/p>\n
What do you do in your spare time that is not church-related?<\/p>\n
I run, ride a Harley, work in the yard. My son and I have taken up kiteboarding, we actually went to kiteboarding school in Honduras….<\/p>\n