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Multiply 2024 talks: Chris Russell

Chris Russell shares a heart-felt call as to why children and young people need to be the priority of the Church - because they need what only Jesus can bring.

By Chris RussellJune 2024

Chris Russell is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s advisor for evangelism and witness. He was previously vicar of St Laurence Reading for 19 years, a multi-generation church which lives to see young people come to faith and build new forms of church with them.

His stirring talk helped frame the ‘Younger Church’ theme for each location of Multiply 2024.

Please note that, due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to feature the song content from Chris Russell’s talk within our video. You can view each of them in full below.

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