Personal Narrative: Desert Springs Church Youth Group Leader

Athletics has been the greatest part of my high school career without a doubt. The sports that I have played in high school were football and baseball. My football career lasted four good years while my baseball career lasted a good solid two. These two sports are great sports, being unique in their own ways. But these two differ in so many ways, making it hard to choose a favorite between the two. Football and baseball differ in many ways, making each of them unique.

I knew one thing for certain: Tennessee was a very stupid state filled with stupid people and I would never drink their stupid sweet tea. Thus was my twelve year old opinion.

Church, temple, sanctuary, or the Lords’s house, these are just a few names that your average person might call the place you come to worship God, I have always called it home. The Church I have been attending, Memorial Baptist Church, which is also where I attend high school, I have been attending since I was the age of three years old. Moving to the area that my family lives in now, I do not believe is any accident. At the age of two years old, my father was stationed in Tennessee for the military. After passing away from brain cancer, my Mother moved my two older sisters and me to Killeen Texas, to be closer to her family. Memorial Baptist Church was the only church we have ever been members of since moving to Texas, it has always felt like

Going to a church that is not of your current denomination or faith is an uncommon thing to do. We are accustomed to staying within the group of people that have common beliefs, especially in regards to religion. Therefore, attending a different church can be uncomfortable for some. Personally, I had the irrational fear of being rejected by church goers of a Southern Baptist church for worshiping the same God in a different manner. Despite my initial concern of being left out or unacknowledged at the sermon, Panther Creek Baptist Church was humble, welcoming, and open to talk about the regular attendants.

It was a beautiful summer day at church. I was just 12 years old when I heard his voice. I heard him before I saw his face. This was the day that I met someone who has changed my life.

Today was a boring and very uncomfortable day for me. Everyone know my last day here at Grace Christian Center is tomorrow so everyone is telling me that they’re sorry that I’m leaving. I’m not sure if its true or not , but its nice to hear. When I walked through the doors of GCC I went straight back to my seat and started cleaning out my desk. I don’t have much in there but I want to make sure that I leave it in better shape than when I got it. Just because I’m leaving doesn’t mean that I have to leave my work area cluttered. After cleaning up my area I decided that I was going to go downstairs to eat lunch with the rest of the staff member, which was odd because that’s something that I normally run away from. Me and the staff ate

the Teen Leadership Coalition. Not only have I been blessed with leadership roles off the

After worship at church, our team rented a Mercedes van and a minivan. It was my first time in a van and it was pretty cool. This van was especially large and could seat 18 people. During the time we were on the road, I got to read a book, talk with my dad, and talk with my friends. We got to eat dinner at Chipotle and we drove to the church. We passed the houses, which were very small. Some of them of them had a weather-beaten and rundown look. Finally, we arrived at Eight Street Community Church..

The Christian Community Service Center is an aspiring non-profit organization whose mission statement is to, “serve the poor, hungry, disabled, and otherwise needy while respecting their religious, ethnic or cultural differences”.

The NAACP Aiken Youth Council was an experience that would never forget. When I first join I was surprised that the youth run the meets instead of the adults. It was a new experience that I was willing to take. I gain that by working in a Youth Council that the young people can create activities that the community can participate and In addition, some of the activities could make other youths want to join, too. Then it makes the youth know how to act in a council setting. Also, be able to be part of different committees to perform their specific task. I was the assistant secretary of the youth council. My job was to be the backup secretary when the actual secretary couldn’t make it, which was reading the minutes and taking notes. Plus, I help

On Sunday, November 2 at 10:00am, I attended Shepherd’s Community Methodist church in Lakeland, Florida. It had been several weeks since I had attended church and I was looking forward to worshiping and learning from the message that would be delivered by the pastor. At a United Methodist Church the first Sunday is “Communion Sunday” and I was excited to take part in the sacrament of Holy Communion at the service. Pastor Mark Reynolds was the pastor that delivered the sermon titled “The Best Investment”.

I played on teams in gymnastics, baseball, and soccer. Gymnastics really helped me with running. Baseball was a great sport for me because it helped my tennis serve, then I played 2nd base and short-stop. Soccer really helped with running and being able to change direction, I was trained as a goal keeper, sweeper and full-back.

This past summer I was accepted to be a Link Crew Leader. The main goal of a link crew leader is to introduce the incoming freshmen to the school and make them feel less intimidated. We took a few days out of the summer to work with a group of incoming freshman and walk them around the campus to familiarize them with where they will be the next four years of their life. Coming in as a freshman can be very daunting; a new territory that you know nothing about is scary. As a link crew leader, I made sure that the new students felt at home and were comfortable at their new school. Throughout the day we played team-building games and then talked about the moral of the game and how you can apply what you learned to high school and life in general.

This past month I got the opportunity to attend church with my friend Norbentina who is originally from Honduras. She attends Southwest Christian Church which is an all speaking Spanish congregation. I accompanied Norbentina to a Sunday morning service and as you can imagine it was quite different than what I’m usually use to.

My youth group leader; Mr. Deitrick, is the one who inspired me to get closer with God and establish my relationship further. It first started when I was in 8th grade, and has just developed from there.