It’s high time we trusted young clergy with top church leadership

A section of youth from Migori Station of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Ranen Conference standing in the shape of a heart [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

Young people represent newness, innovation and the voice of the now.

They represent an interruption of the existing order and render a new interpretation of the context. They are nature’s forward agents – pulling down old ways and building new communities. Young people disrupt. They are not only a new generation but are generators of new knowledge. They are doubly couriers of past wisdom and agents of futuristic thinking. To think of them only as wineskins for old wine that receive ancient wisdom is to misunderstand them. They must be equally seen as new skins and to carry new wine.