So in one instance, a youth worker takes a group of lads from the project to a church-run football tournament, because he thinks they will be welcomed there. He manages to get them all there on time, in their kit, and playing a whole match without beating anyone up. That is a major achievement! Yet the first reaction he gets from one of the Christian organisers of the event is to complain about his lads swearing. It’s an example of where someone needs to see the bigger picture. Some of those lads are suffering family breakdown, have fathers in prison, experience alcohol or drug abuse.  What they need is to be welcomed by the church, not judged.