NCYM2023

David is a veteran in youth ministry having served in three different congregations since 1995 and has been at Otter Creek since January 2003.  He's been to NCYM every year since 1997.  After 27 years in congregational youth ministry, David's role expanded in 2022 to include Children's... Read More →

Kenda (she/her) is an ordained United Methodist pastor and the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her areas of specialization include Christian education and formation, adolescent spiritual formation, youth and young adult ministries... Read More →

Matt Elliott, the worship leader for this year's conference, spent 16 years working full-time with students in Tuscaloosa, AL, Pensacola, FL, and Norcross, GA before transitioning into full-time worship ministry. After spending the next 18 years raising his kids, he recently began... Read More →