“The church doesn’t always recognize or value young people. “We’re often thrown a bone, so to speak, being given issues that people believe the youth want,” he said at the time. Responding to a motion brought by Skinner and other youth members, General Synod voted in favour of forming a new Youth Council. It was one of several major Canadian Christian denominations in which youth engagement was a major theme this summer. “I think peer pressure and culture out there, media is trying to form people into being something that they’re not.