I have had the great privilege of working with Jackie three of those four years, and it has been so much fun to watch her grow up, grow into her own skin, and figure out where God is calling her.
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We will have a lot of people who walk in the doors of our church, and every church, this weekend feeling alone, feeling like they don’t belong there, feeling guilty, ashamed, lonely, and exhausted.
Erin Ypya is our youth choir director and youth praise band leader, but more importantly, she’s an integral part of the youth ministries team.
This weekend in the Justin we’ll be doing our annual Rise Against Hunger service project! Rise Against Hunger is an organization committed to working to end world hunger.
Our teenagers care deeply about everything, it’s one of the most powerful things about working with them — they care about their relationships, their friends, things they read about in the news, and things they hear about in the church.
This Wednesday, at TCU, will be Paschal High School’s annual No More Symposium. The No More Symposium is an annual gathering of people committed to advocating for adolescent mental health, and suicide prevention.
Because this church writes our paychecks, I can pretty easily slip into the mindset that the primary work that is done here in the Justin is the work that the rest of the staff and I do.
I have spent this past month learning one of the most important lessons of my youth ministry career: what we do is not just about youth.
Between the Focus First process, growth in both attendance and engagement, the hiring of a rock-solid associate director, we have spent this past year building a better and better ministry.