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Originally Posted by Melody
Pelathais sorry it didn't work, someone helped to edit it last night so it wasn't crazy, you can do a google search on Kathleen Herles, click on images.
Why have her there at all if she wasn't an example. Now the young man who had a successful campus ministry he was someone I would want the children to model after.
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I don't know why the selections were made the way they were. By including her you do point out the diversity of the movement.
Again, Youth Congresses are the place where younger ministers are often allowed to try things that "push the boundaries." I think we should allow this sort of experimentation and also allow the younger ministers to learn from the triumphs and from the things that may not have worked out so well.
The way things stand now, we are losing our young people in greater numbers than ever before. We are also losing our young ministers in vast numbers. My impression is that most of the youth are just burned out with all of the infighting that goes on.
No matter how you run the numbers, the Oneness Apostolic movement in North America is dying. Even with our "best numbers" being reported we are not even keeping up with the population growth. We are an increasingly marginalized group whose impact, though never really big, is growing even smaller.
I don't think that the answer to that problem is to run down and discourage even more of our young people, especially our young ministers. We need to find the core principles of our faith- the things that never change with time or technology, and promote those things.