Page 14 - Contact Winter 2018

With the Movement this year, I was
given the opportunity to prepare and
deliver a talk at one of the meetings.
I met with Andrew Dickson in Costa
after school to plan the idea, format
and illustrations that we would use, This year Andrew has given all of
and to pray both for this and for The the year 14’s, the opportunity to get
Movement in general. involved in leading the younger people
at the Movement. He has given us the
That Sunday evening, I spoke on the title of a talk and a mentor to help
topic of Jesus’ presence throughout the us with that. This allows us to try
whole bible, especially in the Old something new that is out of our
Testament, as this was a message comfort zone, in a safe environment.
which both Andrew and I had felt led
to share. Speaking at the front of a It allows us to share and give back
group of people was a very different what we have learnt through the years
experience for me than anything else that we have been coming to the
I’ve done before, which made it very Movement.
difficult for me to know how people
were responding at the time. As challenging as it is, I really love
However, at the end of the night I seeing all those of my age really
received a lot of encouragement from getting involved, as we all get behind
others my age and from the leaders, each other and encourage each other
and I hope that what I have said has on, and help to lead the younger
given people something to think about members of our church.
and apply to their own lives.
Elizabeth McCartney
Overall the experience gave me
an opportunity to move out of my
comfort zone and try something new,
and I learned a bit more about the work
that goes into writing and planning a
talk.

Mark McKibbin