Charged. Rooted. United. Reflections from General Conference

OnFire: the young united methodist justice movement: Charged. Rooted. United.: I work everyday with children and youth. Usually, when they ask me how old I am and learn that I am ‘already 24!’ I am automatically ‘old.’ And yes, from a child’s perspective, I am old. Especially when many of the children with whom I work have parents just years older than myself. 
 

Stepping beyond my daily work environment where I am ‘old,’ it is quite different to be here at General Conference, where one of my main ‘identities’ is linked with being ‘young’ and being a ‘young adult.’ Looking at the faces of the delegates, the volunteers, the agency staff, the marshals, the pages and the press gathered here in Tampa, I am young. We, the young people, are underrepresented as part of the global church gathered here....