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| Young Faith Flowers Around The UK |
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| All over the country crosses made up of carefully planted daffodils have been springing up and youth and children’s missionary movement, Urban Saints, have been getting their hands dirty, trying to make an impact in local communities! |
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Back in October 2006, as they rapidly approached the announcement of their name change from Crusaders, Urban Saints mobilised groups of children and young people to plant hundreds of bulbs in specially selected places in their local communities. Teams from Gloucestershire, Kent, Cumbria and Cheshire ventured out to hillsides, fields and roadsides to help create these daffodil crosses.
The crosses, now fully blooming and thriving, give Urban Saints the opportunity to challenge the negative stereotypes about young people and how they are portrayed in the media, as disruptive, apathetic and unruly. These crosses also symbolise the prayerful desire of the young people involved to see Jesus’ Kingdom established in their local communities and across the nations.
Matt Summerfield, Executive Director of Urban Saints, said “these crosses demonstrate that children and young people care about creation and want to make a positive difference in God’s world. It’s a great example of what it means to be an Urban Saint!”
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