I’ve been working as a shared youth worker in the YU and Immanuel Baptist Church partnership since last winter and I love it! I’ve discovered that this church really values youth and their development. The church supports me, always encouraging me and asking how they can be praying. My pastor’s personal investment into me is huge, helping me grow spiritually and in ministry. When I arrived, Pastor Curt Erg had already laid a solid relational foundation in the community with youth and families. Each week we regularly have programs that provide stepping stones for community youth to come nearer to the faith. Tom is a teen from the community who comes to our ‘lighter’ programs regularly and occasionally also to our deeper Friday evening studies. He said to me not long ago, “I’m not a Christian but I feel if I don’t come to church I’ve missed my family. // Jeff Abraham
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