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My heart;

my dream;

my vision;

my prayer, is simple.

It’s Jesus!

It was a late afternoon in the middle of August
2014.

I hadn’t yet started in High Kirk but here I was in
Ballymena, lounging on quite possibly the comfiest
sofa ever, with a cup of tea in hand in the house of
one of the church elders.

Sharing in life, talking about Jesus, soon the focus
began to shift about the new chapter about to
start and with it the question came a little To see a generation of 0-19s
something like this: “What’s your vision, excited to encounter Jesus and
Andrew? Your big dream for the young people
of our church?” become equipped to live for Him
as they respond to His call to,
With a momentary pause, expectation etched “Come, follow me”.
across the face of the elder, and a smile on my
face, I leaned forward and said:
To see a generation of children,
“My heart; my dream; my vision; my prayer, is young people and those who lead
simple. It’s Jesus!”
and disciple them make the only
Some 3 years later, He is still my vision, my dream, movement that matters – “that
my prayer for the children and young people of our
church. With all that I am and all that I have, I long: of a solitary soul taking a single
step towards Jesus, because
Jesus is everything.”

[Pete Greig, Dirty Glory].

So how will we see this vision come to life?