Jesus meets Levi

By Becca Dean is a writer and PhD researcher in Durham. She has written Be Live Pray, a book to help young people engage in prayer and spirituality in more inclusive and creative ways, and blogs at beccaislearning.com 2018-12-12T00:00:00

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Meeting aim: To understand which friends and people Jesus wanted on his ‘team’, and in turn to begin to understand what kind of people Jesus wants us to be.

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