George Williams founder of the YMCA. A man who caught God's heart

Описание: Music by Denis Pavlov from Pixabay

This is part of a series I am doing on people who are known as social reformers but who were also visionaries. George Williams is known as the founder of the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Organisation). He was also a man who caught God’s heart for the young people of his time. We might think of a prophet as someone aloof who declares messages from God. However prophets can also be people who roll up their sleeves and work to bring about the vision God has given them. George Williams was one of these. Everything he worked for was driven by compassion for the plight of the young working men of his time who were treated as commodities to be used and abused by Victorian employers.