The Real Nicole.

One thing I've really struggled with since being Is Naracoorte is making friends. Don't get me wrong I've got some mates. But every week at church it's a real struggle to know who I should sit with. I pray that youth will come and not have their family with them to sit with. Often I sit alone. It's not nice. A few years ago I wrote for the New Times (Uniting Church SA magazine) about being a young adult in church and not being treated as an adult because its the church you grew up in and older members of church don't really realise you have grown up because they remember you as a kid. I thought when I moved churches and started in leadership I would be treated as an adult. But I still find that difficult in my new context. Not because people are horrible but I think because the age gap is big. Most of the church congregation is 40 years old and older. In fact I think there are maybe 5 people aged 20-40 in the congregation. Then there are youth.  Now these ot

Well we are in 2015 now. How did that happen?!? I don't know about you, but i realised i was an adult and not as young as i thought i was this last year when i realised that there were kids in high school born in the 2000s, The kids transitioning into primary school for 2015 were all born in 2010. And i have actually be out of high school for 4 whole years now! 2014 was an incredibly big year for me.  The 1st of Feb marks one year since I arrived here in Naracoorte. What a year! Golly gosh, where do i even start?! These  last 12 months have been such an adventure and challenge  for me as I stepped out in faith and moved to Nadacoorte  to  work as the youth pastor and work in the lives of the young people in this region. When I'm real honest I would say that this last year has been the toughest year if my life. But I wouldn't change it. I have learnt so much. I think I moved here thinking I knew everything and that I was going to be able to change the world. I realis