I'm Jimmy Wallace and this is the incarnate investigation.

It's been really interesting to me to see the different ways that churches approach their youth ministries.

Growing up, I started attending church, I guess I was in the second grade, so I spent most of my childhood in teen years in youth ministry. I went to a few different churches

during that time and so I got to see a few different variation in the way that people

approach doing that kind of ministry.

As I got older, I also began volunteering a lot,

and I ended up serving on the junior high and high school worship teams

for one of the churches that I was going to. So I got a behind the scenes look at how things worked. On top of that my

father he was serving youth ministry for essentially that entire time so I would tag along with him as he did ministry and I was lucky that I got to see the way that he would think about doing youth ministry.

I would sit in on conversations between him and other youth workers and so even at a young

age I kind of had a good grasp on some of the different issues that youth ministry leaders

had to deal with.

You know they each had different philosophy. that youth ministry leaders had to deal with.

They each had different philosophies when it had,

when it came time to figuring out

how are we going to reach young people with the gospel?

Everyone had different ideas about what was going to be best, you know, to reach the new generation. I started out at a local mega church, you know, was always considered quote-quote

secret sensitive meaning he was always geared towards making first-timers and

non-believers feel welcome. I loved going to that church. It was always a fun and welcoming

place. They had a great sense of community. I love getting a spent basically all weekend, every weekend there.

Over time my family, they started going to a smaller church that met in my high school.

My dad ended up working in youth ministry there.

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