Through the week and on Friday nights some of the YWAM York team hang out with the youth that locate themselves by the river and in city centre. Our time is spent talking and hanging out. Our goal is to be a positive influence with each of the youth we meet, and get to know them. We are there to be available for them to talk or to ask questions or to pray with them if they want. Its a lot about helping them see their potential and that they are valuable.
Doug’s testimony from one night…..
One of the first nights when we had started hanging out with the youth we were really encouraged by one of the lads we were talking to that night. We had been going out for a few nights and we felt like it was pointless. We felt like the youth didn’t want us there and that we were just being intrusive. Every night it seemed like we had struggled to get talking and to make any real connections. But this night one of the guys had got talking to us and just wanted to talk about life and his thoughts. At the end of it he said he really appreciated us being there. He also thought that all the youth appreciated us being there even if they never said it or even showed it. But they respect that we would come out and hang with them just to talk and to get to know them. It really spurred us to keep going out on Friday nights and keep making an effort to get to know the youth.
