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Here and Now devo Nov 15

by David Joynt on November 15, 2022


PROVERBS 22:6 | 6Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.

Children and youth are a blessing to the church here and now, in many ways. They are also a gift beyond walls. They are a gift to the world. When they go to school or college, they go as missionaries of our Lord. Eventually, most will move away, for such is the mobile society. They may be drawn by love, work, education, or wanderlust. But wherever they go, they carry the faith they learned here and so become our gifts to the broader world.

Pray for the spiritual formation and character formation of our youth.

Pray for Travis Kingma and Wes Cates and for our youth advisors.

 

Tags: faith, learned

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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