This past Sunday was Youth Sunday, and your kids spoke. Did you listen to them? Because they were speaking to us.
It was awesome to see all of you who joined us yesterday morning for the Youth Parent Meeting and Confirmation Parent Meeting!
I am Evan Stanfill the new Middle School Program Coordinator with Youth Ministries over at the Justin Building. I thought I would take a few words to introduce myself to y’all!
This is my last week here in Fort Worth as I will be moving back home to Atlanta to pursue my Master of Divinity at Emory University.
We were called to a life of freedom in Christ. We were called to create, to laugh, to enjoy being alive for its own sake, to rejoice in the love of our Creator, and who that Creator created us to be. Failures included.
Two full years ago, a small team from the Youth Ministries family, including teenagers, staff, volunteers, and parents, jumped into a project funded by the Texas Methodist Foundation called the Innovation Lab.
When they were in middle and high school, my girls would groan and roll their eyes when they found out that yes, my husband I had volunteered to chaperone a dance or activity. Oh, the horror! Their friends and classmates might actually have to interact with us!
As a project for January of 2021, we at Youth Ministries interviewed four students and asked them to tell us about their 2020, in their own words. I encourage you to listen. I’ve gained so much from doing so, and I hope you do too.
Right now, I think we could all use a little grounding. Especially because things are constantly changing — between changing with expectations with the pandemic, not knowing who’s in and out of quarantine at any given time, uncertainty with our schedules and seemingly no way to plan for the future.