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Today we were at a youth leaders conference for youth leaders in the Auckland area. The speaker/youth professional was Murray Brown who has been in youth ministry for 28 years (he will have one of the biggest mansions in heaven I would think). He travels around the world to talk about youth ministry. During the day he mentioned that he had done ministry in Palmerston North, Wellington, and Christchurch-so naturally I went to speak to him. He had some interesting insight a/b Palmerston North and Wellington. He said that Palmerston North was a very Christian Community and that there are a lot of churches doing a lot of things in a very unified way. The Mayor and the Deputy Mayor are both Christians who used to be in ministry. He said that he didn't see much need for new churches in PN compared to other places in NZ. He said that Wellington is definitely in need for some churches and for the light of God. He said that it is just a dark place where religious groups have often failed or been pushed out due to lack of interest. He said that there are very few thriving or surviving churches in Wellington. I thought this was interesting in light of knowing Lou's situation.
I told him that we hope to be taking a trip to do survey work in May in that area and he said to get in touch w/ him if we want contacts and that he would help if he could.
Very Interesting!!