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Movement Life Groups meet one Sunday Helping lead a Life Group within
night a month, where each year group comes The Movement is incredible, as it helps me
together to enjoy community, Bible reading to get to know the young people in a more
and prayer. Small groups are an integral part of personal way and journey alongside them as
our youth programme and have always been a they grow in their faith. I have loved seeing
fi rm favourite of our young people. past groups grow from quiet and shy year 8’s
to young men and women who love Jesus and
The hope of Life Group is that young people serve Him daily. Life Groups have been
would grow in their faith within the support benefi cial in my own spiritual growth and so to
and love of a community of believing peers. see young people grow spiritually through Life
We seek to be open and real, to ask Groups and studying passages/books/themes
questions, to encourage and challenge in a safe is simply wonderful.
environment with the primary purpose being
to know and love God better.
Jamie Gillespie
In order to do that in the crazy world we live
in - a world where feelings are prioritised over On the fi rst Sunday of each month I meet
truth, who you think you are over who God with our Movement Life Group in the hope that
says you are, and sex and power are craved we can continue to encourage each other in
over love and humility. We need to know the our faith. That through our time we can better
culture and speak the words of Christ into know God’s Word and fi nd assurance and
our hearts so that by God’s Grace He would comfort and be better equipped to give
transform us as His disciples by the renewing an answer for the hope that we have.
of our minds.
Clive Fulton
We are thankful that the Words of the Bible
are timeless. The Bible is suffi cient to address
every need of our generation. There is no need Since I was fi rst year I have always been
to try to relate the Bible to the culture, but involved in the youth. I grew up coming
to submit our minds and hearts to the truth through Ignite (which then became The
of the Bible in order that we may transform Movement) and after 6 years I became a
culture by God’s Grace! Life Groups allow for leader. Sunday nights and Friday Night socials
this in a unique and powerful way. Our young had such an impact on my life and my faith
people have the power within them that raised when I was at school. I became a leader as a
Christ from the dead, and Life Groups allow us result of the experiences that I had - I really
to encourage them to be diff erent, to honour wanted to be able to give some of this back to
God’s word, to prioritise His will over all of ours the youth.
and to connect with each other as brothers and
sisters in Christ. I am looking forward to watching the youth
grow in their faith. I think that every single
person in The Movement has so much to off er
Lisa Marcus and I can’t wait to be able to experience this
with them.
Elizabeth McCartney
