Seth M. Vopat

The plans were made, the dates picked. It was supposed to be a new season in the youth ministry as I was the first youth pastor (part-time) they had ever hired. Dotting my "I"s and crossing my "T"s, I thought I had made all the right moves to help our first mission trip be a complete success. A date...

As I moved into college I began to feel a call to full-time youth ministry. However, as I expressed this call to one of my mentors and mentioned I was looking at M.Div. programs with an emphasis in youth ministry, she quickly frowned. She thought it would be better for me to get a regular M.Div. so that...