By Ang Hart, Detroit Conference Director of Youth and Young Adults
Imagine you have taken on the leadership role of an event.
For this event you must find a band, a speaker, and food to feed the entire crowd, put together games for everyone, do it all on a tiny budget, and entice people to come.
Oh yeah — and you have four months to do it in.
This year at Conference Youth Assembly (CYA) — a camp for the youth leaders of our conference, the Conference Council on Youth Ministries (CCYM — the group who puts on conference wide Youth events, with Youth being the ones in charge) had a dilemma. Due to unforeseen circumstances, both the chair and the assistant chair of the Fall Rally had to step down.
This is the first time this has ever happened in the more than 10 years that the event has been running.
Usually, the assistant chair helps for their first year and is in charge their second year, so they have had time to watch this huge event take place.
Then, of course, the chair is the big person on campus, running the whole show.
But this year, the CCYM had no idea what was going to happen until camp came around. We were all praying that a strong leader would step forward, and one did — Taylor Pryde.
She is a junior at Hartland High School and on her Facebook page her Religious Views read “Jesus Freak and proud of it!” She is highly involved in her church, her community and now, on the CCYM.
She had four months to pull off a huge event and she did it brilliantly.
The band: Definition Plexis.
The speaker: the Detroit Conference’s own Jeremy Peters.
And the food order overwhelmed a small Subway in Grand Blanc.
This year we had over 150 youth and youth workers playing icebreaker games including one where 10 youth came to the front and stuck an Oreo to their forehead. And true to the nature of a conference youth event, they came from all over the great state. The event was a huge success. Not only because it went off without a hitch, but because lives were touched and people drew closer to Jesus Christ because of it.
Fall Rally is all about touching lives, and that is an extension of what CCYM is really all about.
It strives to build up youth to their strongest leadership possibilities so that they can serve the Lord with all their heart, mind, strength and soul.
Pryde is one incredible success story out of the hundreds that have come and gone through CCYM, and we celebrate her and her ministry.
If you or a youth you know is interested in becoming more involved in youth or young adult ministry in our conference, please contact Ang Hart at ahart@detroitconference.org.
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