God is Faithful!

Today was an awesome experience! Kelsey, Shelbe, and Jared met me at Tech. They turned in all of their volunteer paperwork and got Tech ID's so they are now "official" on campus. After school, they hung out a met a TON of kids! I was so impressed with how outgoing they are! They are very intentional about meeting kids and remembering their names. Watching them interact with the students brought me back to my leader days at IU. Their enthusiasm is super contagious. I was able to introduce them to several of the students who went to YL summer camp this year or fall camp a few years back. Those kids were really excited to meet the leaders and to finally have Young Life on campus. They all mentioned wanting to go to camp again this year, which is AWESOME! We are already starting to pray about getting as many students as possible to go to camp in June.

After hanging out on the 3rd floor of Stuart, we headed over to the auditorium where fall play rehearsal was going on. The fall play is THIS FRIDAY and SATURDAY nights at Tech. Check it out if you're looking for something fun to do this weekend. They are performing “Donovan’s Daughters,” at 7:00 p.m. The leaders enjoyed meeting some of the students who will be in the play. Jared stuck around after we left and also met up with Rob Wynkoop. Rob introduced him to the Head football coach and some of the players! It was a GREAT day!

God is really at work on Tech's campus! To see actual Tech leaders on campus today, meeting with students, made me want to get on my hands and knees and PRAISE the LORD! Our committee has been praying for leaders for 3 years and God is FAITHFUL!

Meet Kathy Queen!

Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio

Occupation: School Counselor

How did you get involved in Young Life? I first went with some friends to "8th-grade night" YL club when I was still in Jr. High. I then went to YL summer camp after my sophomore year (Lake Champion in New York), and that is when I became a Christian.

Why Tech? I always want to be involved in YL in some capacity, because it was so instrumental in how I first really understood that God loved me. I think it is such an effective (and fun!) ministry that can work at any school, because it's all about relationships and loving kids. My house is about a block away from Tech, so it seems like the perfect fit to get involved here, where I live. I also worked at a nearby middle school for a couple of years, so I know some students at Tech.

What would people be surprised to know about you? I like to crochet.

Hobbies: Traveling, biking, outdoorsy stuff, music, dancing

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? Tim Maia
(popular Brazilian musician in the 70's and 80's)

Meet JC Trombley!

Hometown: West Lafayette, IN

Occupation: Motion Graphics Designer

How did you get involved in Young Life? I first went to Young Life during a “kidnap” club during high school. Later during college, I was re-exposed to Young Life through the leader perspective and was able to better understand how the ministry is geared towards helping high school students.

Why Tech? I taught art at Tech for a year and saw a need in students lives for a program like Young Life. After hearing that others wanted to start the program, I knew that I wanted to be involved. I envisioned that Young Life could be successful on the Tech campus. Even though I don’t teach there anymore, this is a great way for me to stay connected to the students and share the Gospel.

What would people be surprised to know about you? I LOVE hockey! Go Blackhawks.

Hobbies: Watching movies, drawing, playing XBOX 360

What are you excited about?: Our new leaders.

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? Relient K and Lupe Fiasco

Meet Sara Trombley!

Hometown: Newburgh, IN

Occupation: Part Time Staff with Young Life!!! And Mommy to Luke (3) and Emerson (9 months)

How did you get involved in Young Life? In high school, my dance coach invited me to a Young Life club and I have been involved ever since! God used Young Life and my amazing leaders to teach me about having a relationship with Jesus. I was also a YL leader at IU when I was in college. Then a friend invited me to join the Tech committee a few years ago.

Why Tech? I taught math for 5 years at Tech in the Academy of Creative Expression. The student's are awesome and will really benefit from having Young Life on campus. They need consistent people in their lives who will share the Gospel with them.

What would people be surprised to know about you? I LOVE scary movies (especially the Scream trilogy)!

Hobbies: Reading, Scrapbooking, Cooking (NOT baking), Movie nights with my best friend/husband JC, and playing with my kiddos.

What are you excited about?: Seeing how God moves at Tech High School.

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? B.O.B., Rooney, and Caedmon's Call

Meet Rob Wynkoop!

Hometown: Waldwick NJ

Occupation: State government- trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents

How did you get involved in Young Life? I think Kathy Queen bugged me to go to a meeting.

Why Tech? Why would anyone want to be anywhere else? Go Titans!!

What would people be surprised to know about you? I love karaoke. uhh yeah.

Hobbies: Tech Football, Tech Football, Tech Football, Reading, Golf, Listening to music

What are you excited about?: I'm pretty stoked that we have 3 pretty cool people joining the YL Tech team. Big things comin to Tech!!

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? D'Angelo, Tupac, Tribe, Led Zeppelin, Avett Brothers, Run-DMC, Robert Randolph, Incubus

Meet Jaime McCord

Hometown: Fishers, IN

Occupation: Online business owner/stay at home mom

How did you get involved in Young Life? originally through Stacy Dawkins...I knew her from a missions trip we were both on. She connected me with Jon and Annie Houghton at Carmel YL.

What about Tech excites you the most? The kids...They like to act like they are so hard up front, but when you just give them a little love and attention they light up!

What would people be surprised to know about you? Im cross eyed when I take my contacts out and I love Nascar

Hobbies: running/working out, playing with my kids, travelling, hanging out with friends and family

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? I'm more of a pandora girl...I like the Hillsong United Station or the Hootie and theBlowfish Station

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? marine biologists, doctor, nurse, missionary, mommy

Meet Jason Dorsey!

Hometown: Camano Island, Washington

Occupation: Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

How did you get involved in Young Life? Because of my passion for IPS, and desire to see spiritual impact at Arsenal Tech.

Why Tech? It’s the most strategic of IPS highschools and it is close to our home and church and my son, Jacob, will attend there next year.

What would people be surprised to know about you? That I am a watercolor artist and I’m trying to publish a children’s picture book called “I remember fishing with Dad.”

Hobbies: Salmon Fishing, Watercolor Painting, Epic family road trips, spending time with my best friend and wife, Jenny

What are you excited about?: Being part of the social, cultural and spiritual renewal of Indianapolis

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? I don’t have an i-pod. I’m technologically challenged.

Meet Jared Heinz!

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Hometown: Westfield, IN

How did you get involved in Young Life? I met my Young Life leader at football. He was a coach, and I decided to go. I had other teachers who were leaders too and i looked up to them. I went to every club and decided that I would like to do what they did.

What about Tech excites you the most? All the potential!

What would people be surprised to know about you? I used to be a frog...

Hobbies: I love football with a passion. I also love video games, and hanging out with friends is good too.

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? The temptations, Queen, Jack Johnson, Easy E, Europe, Michael Jackson and Bob Marley

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a firefighter! The hats did it for me.

Meet Shelbe Tillman!

Hometown: Muncie, IN

College and Major: Butler University
Majors: International Studies/Spanish
Minor: Philosophy

How did you get involved in Young Life? started out with going to the Young Life Bible Study once I came to Butler just to have a Christian community to be involved with. At one of the Studies I heard about Young Life Leader training and decided that being a leader was just the thing I needed in my life...so here I am!

What about Tech excites you the most? Meeting as many students as possible :)

What would people be surprised to know about you? I compete in pageants...and no, we don't all use "world peace" as the answer to interview questions!

Hobbies: Playing tennis (or any sport), dancing, watching movies, singing (very poorly though!), scrapbooking, meeting people, trying new things, and having fun!

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? My iPod has the craziest mix of songs...I listen to a little bit of everything.

Meet Kelsey Myers!

Hometown: Pataskala, OH (It is about twenty minutes east of Columbus)

College and Major: Pharmacy

How did you get involved in Young Life? Block Party (It is a random get involved in anything and everything event during the first week at Butler)

What about Tech excites you the most? I am most excited about all of the possibilities at Tech.

What would people be surprised to know about you? People would be surprised to know that as a senior prank two friends and I collected road kill and put it in the principals parking spot (we had a deer, raccoon, squirrel, possum, goose, groundhog, and a beaver) He was impressed:)

Hobbies: Camping, riding bicycles, traveling, sewing, mowing the grass, facebook, and soccer.

What are you listening to on your I-Pod? Cool Thing by Rascal Flatts

Celebration

After finding out who our new leaders were, we headed downtown to Champs! It was super fun hanging out and getting to know each other. And we completely bonded over an experience none of us will soon forget.

Try and picture the 8 of us, on stage, with a mic, belting out a Backstreet Boy song. Yeah, you read that right! It was hilarious. Jared was our lead singer and Jason was an amazing background dancer. Apparently it was karaoke night at Champs, so we had to take advantage of the amazing opportunity!

It's not the best picture, but you get the idea...



We also split this delicious dessert. Great idea Kelsey!

And the new Tech leaders are...

JARED

SHELBE

KELSEY

Leader mania

Tuesday was a HUGE night for Tech Young Life!!! Kathy Queen has been going to the leader training all semester. On Sunday night, interviews were held. Although all of the leaders were amazing, we had our eye on 3 that we thought would be perfect for Tech. However, we had no input into the decision. So, Tuesday night was leader placement. Of the 14 leaders that went through training, Tech was blessed with 3! AND they were the exact 3 we had been hoping for!!! How awesome is God?

The night was super crazy! We met at the Nikcevich house and it was covered with string. It looked like an enormous spider web all over their house. Each leader started with a piece of yarn and had to follow it up and down stairs and all over the house. Then they ended up at the team they had been placed on!



Here are the leaders on their quest to find their team!




The Tech team anxiously awaiting our leaders! (Jason, Rob, JC, and Sara --- Kathy was taking the photo)