Baptist Church Rev. Don Lyon, Westerlo,
Ours is o very exciting ministry, because it centers primarily around the youth of the church Steve Greggo, the youth pastor or Westerlo, has many contacts with kids, mostly teens, from around the area, and keeps a lively schedule of youth activities for them. This is where we come in! We help with these activities throughout the year, and, through them, ore able to befriend the kids, find our where the biggest needs lie, and attempt to counsel and disciple them It has been fun getting to know the youth group and all the kids in the area, and participating in the youth activities. Bur it has also been a real challenge in trying to be sensitive to their needs, and be the right kind of example. It has been well worth oil of the rime and effort, however, to see, at the end of the year, that we've mode a difference and influenced a few young lives -Paul Marino
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Mountainview Baptist Church Rev. James, Voorheesville,
Mountainview Evangelical Free Church in Voorheesville, New York is a small church with under 40 members On Sunday mornings they meet in o community center 5 miles away from their town, and on Sunday and Wednesday evenings they meet in different homes. In going to this church every weekend Eleece, Jim and I witnessed a young church just starring to blossom In August they hod just token on their pastor as a full-time worker Also, in the summer months they joined the Evangelical Free Church denomination. We got in on the project of starring a new youth group Though rocky, and at rimes seemingly haphazard, the group is raking shape If anything has been learned, it is that running a youth group requires work, diligence, and dedication! Much was to be learned from the people and the lives that they live also There is such a complexity of different strengths and weaknesses in each one of them They are godly people, and we've come to love them as our own family All year we've found ourselves looking forward to the weekends It is true that we are to minister to them, bur we have received manifold blessings in return -Joy Goerrzen
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