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While at Twin Rivers Church I was asked to overhaul the youth ministry. Kids were not wanting to come, let alone bring their friends. The goal was to make it relevant, make it fun and most importantly make it locked in on our core values. I was able to grow a team of volunteers that helped me grow the ministry more then 300%Part of the way it grew was my ability to plan out and execute events. My highlight events were two different out of state trips that were over a week long and had 15+ youth on the trips. The other was a multi-day youth conference that had a concert, multiple guest speakers and community sponsorships.

I was responsible for rebuilding the children's ministry. Everything from applications, policies, designs, curriculum and retraining volunteers (100+). The task was a large on as I was responsible for putting together the policies for what was legal according to the state, insurance company and what was just plain practical. It was a great role for me for a season but eventually, once it was running well, it was no longer fitting for the stage of life we were in.

Over the years I was invested in a lot of different aspects of helping start the church of Ekklesia Eugene. My primary role was to run the elementary aged ministry: scheduling, teaching, training volunteers, planning and executing events, and helping create policies. As it was a young and growing church I would sometimes be staff and others just be a volunteer staff. Facilities was a role I was given to help make it a paid staff position. I was overseeing the clean up of the gatherings and managing the office facilities. On average I'd say I put in 30+/- hours a week with this ministry while in school full time and working other jobs. (I really loved this program and only left because they could not afford to bring me on full time when I graduated school)

I started out this job just as a work-study student. Eventually I was able to start writing policies for the program and thus started to be leaned on to manage the bar. On top of helping student maintain a healthy nutrition plan (set by someone with training) I was in charge of inventory, ordering, systematically organizing stock. I was managing the bar while my boss, James Harris, left the program with the Chip Kelly crew and was in charge of helping the new Nutritionist get familiar with the program.

I was second in charge in a startup after school program. My responsibilities were to teach classes, help recruit and hire new staff, write curriculum and help keep positive rapport with the local schools which whom we were working.