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Morning.

Oh I'm on buttonwoods Valley Community Church.

I'm Norm.

Tell her I'm going to be here.

So we have Bible studies for adults.

In women on both Services, I believe we have classes for both services for K through K. Through 6 also adults for both Kaiser 6 for both services on Leeza been Beautifully Broken, November 5th, register on faith life or at the Kinect center sign up for Reverb now through Friday is Friday November 11th, which is before hunting season open.

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Is Deb bevevino just to clarify how that's pronounced.

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Anyways, I am a member of our mission committee here at hoosac Valley Community Church.

And today, I have the pleasure of introducing my big little brother Kevin Post, who is with Youth for Christ at the Capital District region.

For those of you that aren't aware of that and I actually introduced Kevin to Youth for Christ when we were in high school when they were first making their presence known in our area.

So a lot of changes have gone along with the ministry, but their mission has remained the same and I'm proud that he is part of that and I can lay claim to that pain.

So here's Kevin.

Good morning.

When Debbie invited me, I thought it was a trick.

I thought it was like, there's no way she actually wants me to hang out with her and her friends.

Since I took, she had to convince me quite a bit actually show up, but I'm so glad she invited me and the rest of the tree.

But I want to thank you are.

This church has partnered with the Capital District Youth for Christ for her for many, many years.

And I just thank you for the way that your partnership hasn't been invested in thousands and thousands of kids lives.

I use for Christ.

As my sister said, I wear Ministry where we're trying to reach out to high school and middle school students with the love and the hope of the gospel.

And so our main focus is kids that are unchurched an unsaved.

We do at a lot of times we get kids that are that have grown up in the church.

Are you kind of connected and then we just help them.

See that what we're doing is, it's a mission field is that we're not?

Why is he is not to replace the, the, the church But we're an extension of the church to reach out to Lost young people who need Jesus.

So I served as the Chief Operating Officer so I get to make sure that everybody's doing the right thing, the right way and that could be fun.

But what's really fun is.

I also get to invest in our leaders, our staff and volunteers that are investing in the kids that need Jesus.

And that's what gets me out of bed.

Every morning is the fact that I get to do things with people who are passionate about helping kids come to know Jesus and grow in their faith.

This generation that were trying to reach right now.

They're part of the Generation Z, people from age 10 to 25 and there's different every generation kind of has characteristics or are things that they said, this is this generation, these are the markers and it's not true for for everybody.

Sometimes we get down Fights with other Generations.

But this generation that we're working with the right now.

They are very distrustful of people in power and position and so we're a title doesn't mean anything to them.

They want to build a relationship.

They want to be able to trust and they're just not going to say all.

Well, you have a pastor title or your director or whatever doesn't mean anything to them, they they want the relationship.

They're also very comfortable in smaller groups where it used to be where we be able to easily, and quickly.

Get a lot, a lot of kids together at once what we're finding Across the Nation is that these kids.

They don't want larger groups, they want smaller groups and so because of that, we are looking for more adults to get involved in our ministry because we have to kind of do a lot more things.

Then just do me one big event.

You're doing maybe five or six or seven events with kids and so people's capacity gets reach pretty quick.

So we're looking for adults that can invest in the lies of kids.

We have a Ministry in Clifton Park that is growing a coming out of the pandemic and we have one volunteer and we had like 17 18 kids at our last event.

I last week and just we know we can't do ministry effectively until we have more adults involved and Out Of Reach Out to more kids.

We have a Ministry in Albany where we're desperate for men to be involved in our in our ministry that we have a lot of women, but we don't have a lot of men.

And so, trying to minister to the young men that are growing up in the city of Albany with just women their challenges to that.

And so we could use your prayers for Clifton Park Ministry for just a male and female volunteers for her Albany.

We really need male volunteers.

We have our ministry in Schenectady.

We need male and female volunteers there.

Chris Aldi has started volunteering with our Cohoes Ministry and that's one site where we have a lot of volunteers already and we're really grateful for that.

And so but we just want to say thank you for your support of this ministry and in what we're doing.

And there's other ways that you can also get involved in the ministry, Youth for Christ.

If you're like, hey you know what, hanging out with kids that not not my thing but there's a lot of different ways you can help us.

While we're always looking for people to be on our prayer teams, we believe that prayer is really vital to seeing kids, come to know Jesus and for our Ministries to grow and flourish.

And so, if you want to join an existing prayer team or maybe you want to start and be a part of a team for an area where not even in yet, that would be something that you can volunteer your time and be a prayer warrior with us.

We're also looking for people to help us to connect other people to the ministry.

We do these events called see the stories of their one hour long and it's just purely informational.

So think of this but just Longer time frame and we were able to share what God is doing.

The lies of kids, we have it.

Sometimes of the staff member could be a board member could be a volunteer, could be a kid that share stories of how God is using them and changing them as they minister to these kids are serving the different roles.

And so we're looking for people to help introduce us, help connect us and also beyond what we're calling Community Support teams wear.

These are a group of people that are helping lead the ministry side, but more behind-the-scenes and if you would like more information about anyting of Youth, for Christ, I'd be more than willing to talk with you after the service or you can sign up at the table.

And I'll contact you this week if we don't get a chance to talk today.

But I just wanted to express again might my gratefulness for how you invest in the lies of these kids through your involvement with Youth for Christ and all the other different Ministries.

We had a real to take kids down to Wildwood New Jersey.

At the end of June is an annual trip.

We take with high school, kids different YC chapters.

We all come together.

We have a speaker.

We have bands XTR.

Speaker, came down with covid.

Right before we're supposed to show up, so our executive director in Long Island Youth for Christ stepped in to speak that week and God used him in a powerful powerful way.

We had several of our kids pray to accept Christ for the first time, in many more made recommitment seeing kids have grown up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Schenectady weeping.

Because of the decision and their life that they recognized that needed forgiveness for.

And they were one another boy from Albany.

He's like I'm just tired of being broken.

I want Jesus to fix me and it just is.

You just blowing another girl who has said, I'm a Christian but we haven't seen evidence of it.

She actually spoke at one of our see, the stories, and then just like did a nosedive.

Her dad had was diagnosed with cancer a couple years ago and he lasted a live about another 6-8 months longer than the doctors thought.

But he passed away this past school year and she has body image issues and stuff.

She's got the black hoodie up all the time, and never see her smile.

She doesn't engage, and she went on this trip, down to Wildwood New Jersey with us, and When did gospel was presented in an invite was given she, she said yes to Jesus.

And she had this huge smile on her face and her, her Hood came off and the next day.

She's not a tie-dye T-shirt.

We have like we didn't know she knew any other color but black one of our leaders said, she came up on one side of them and he was talking to some other kids over here.

And he said, I kind of just felt like there was as glow and I thought, maybe is this an angel next to me? Turn it was this young girl.

She was glowing, her smile is so big and her face was so lit up and I I was at one of our ministry, sites Thursday and she was at that in the smile is still there and it's so exciting to see the transformation of these kids.

A lot of our kids are struggling with school, they're used to not going to school and a lot of times the kids that were working with the single parent homes and so when Mom goes off to work, the older kids have to stay or they're told that you have to stay home from school today.

You have to watch her younger brother or sister while we have some kids, they missed more school, that they've been so far this year in Cohoes, there's no school busing.

And so kids have to walk, we have one boy, who is both.

He's actually one of the families in Manor sites, where there's a husband and wife and both parents work.