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A TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER AND YOUTHFRONT STAFF MEMBER DAVID VICTOR KING UPCOMING EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2013 3RD ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION November 7th, 2013 Overland Park Marriott To Register visit youthfront.com/diamondsanddenim A CONVERSATION ON RACE AND YOUTH MINISTRY November 12th, 2013 8:30-11:30am Nazarene Theological Seminary Youthfront is sponsoring this day with Nazarene Theolgoical Seminary A TRIBUTE TO DAVE2-4 KING WEEKEND RETREATS Contact Andy Garlich at [email protected] for information on Retreats at Youthfront Camps NATIONAL YOUTH WORKER CONVENTION 5 November 21st -22nd, 2013 SUMMER RECAP: CAMP WEST 8:30-11:30am Nashville Tennessee Youthfront staff teach and lead programs for 3,000 youth workers SUMMER RECAP: LACYGNE6 YEAR-END GIVING Now is the time to plan for Year End Giving which offers great tax advantages! Check out our new youthfrontlegacy.com webpage for information about charitable Tax Free IRA Distributions, Annuities, Gifts of Stock, land etc. 7 While you’re there, make sure you sign up for the THE ARGENTINE new newsletter so you can keep abreast of the rapidly changing financial landscape! SOMETHING TO EAT8TM Summer Issue 2013 Issue 3, Volume 74 Mike King, President/CEO Topher Philgreen, COO 9 Sara Kline, Director of Development WEST EXPANSION ©2013 Youthfront. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced in print or electronically without permission. Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, ©1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. 10 YOUTHFRONT, INC. NEW STAFF BIO 4715 Rainbow Blvd., Shawnee Mission, KS 66205 NEW STAFF BIO JOEY GROSS - DIRECTOR OF BRAND DEVELOPMENT Meet Joey Gross, Youthfront’s newest fulltime staff time jobs and Joey, only a month after being married, member, hired back in June to help manage the decided to surprise Amanda with an eight week old lab Youthfront brand and image. Joey also has several puppy who has since grown to 90 pounds and is slowly social media responsibilites, handles the majority of the taking over their house, despite his craziness they still graphic design and print media needs and does some love him! web development as well. Enough about that, let’s get to the good stuff. After interning at Hammerpress Joey fell in love with the letterpress style of printing and the machines and Joey graduated from UCM in 2011 with a BFA in Graphic printing presses that go along with the trade. Over Design and also had a couple years of Elementary the last two years Joey has drug Amanda all over the Education under his belt. After graduating, he took midwest collecting printing equipment and they have a couple internships at a marketing firm, Fleishman- started a small print shop that they operate out of Hillard, and a letterpress print shop in the crossroads their very full one-car garage along with one side of called Hammerpress. He has since then had a few jobs Joey’s very gracious parents garage. It’s been quite the working in screenprinting shops and he recently left adventure going around and gathering printing presses. a job at an eCommerece sports company called Pro They are all very old and very heavy. The oldest press Athlete, Inc. where he did design and web development. they own is from 1911 and heaviest press they have brought home weighs 4,500 pounds. Even though they During college, Joey met a girl named Amanda in one of are heavy and hard to move, once you see one of them his fine art drawing classes. Despite making fun of her run you can truly appreciate them and it makes it all exceptional drawing skills, managed to win her over and worth it. they just recently celebrated their one year wedding anniversary back in September. A lot happened in the This is Joey in a nutshell, he works on the second floor in one year they have been married. They bought a tiny the new office so stop by and say hi if you haven’t met house together in Overland Park, both of them got full him yet, he loves to talk and get to know people! Wanna stay up on the latest at Youthfront? Then go online today and join the Youthfront Current! By signing up you will be the first to know about our latest news, blog posts, events and more! You can even share our messages with your friends on Facebook and Twitter! Visit our website to sign up today! www. youthfront.com FOLLOW US /Youthfront /Youthfront @Youthfront @youthfront WE ARE ON OUR WAY BUILDING UPDATE BY FLETCH KELLY We are so excited to report on the New Activity building construction project. As promised, we broke ground officially the day after our last day of camp at West. To date, we have seen great progress. The foundation has been backfilled to plumbing depth, and the exterior plumbing was all laid. The plumbers have installed the new water pumps and distribution system in the new pump room. The electricians have installed power and control circuits to the new water system. And, on Oct. 3, we switched over to the new system! This is a HUGE victory and milestone. This means we are turning a very big corner on this project. The week of October 7, the rest of the old building will come down. The rest of the concrete floor will come out and, at that point, we will be done with tearing down old, and be solely constructing new structure. Construction projects like this one are pertinent to keeping on schedule! We encourage you to keep praying for good weather, as we begin ramping up towards getting the building framed in for the winter. A TRIBUTE TO DAVE KING Four decades ago, my parents started taking me, messages, emails, texts, stories and calls from people all a teenager at the time, and my sisters to YFC (now over the world, people whom my father has pastored, Youthfront). Through Youthfront, my entire family fell loved, prayed for and ministered to both directly and in love with Jesus Christ and began to live faithfully for indirectly. They are beautiful testimonies about a life God. My parents, Dave and Wanda King, got totally well lived for Jesus. involved through serving at camp, rallies, clubs and Three times over the final seven weeks of his fight for special events. My father became one of the world’s life we were called in to say our “final” goodbyes. It was best youth workers. He was naturally gifted for youth common practice to gather around his bed to pray, read ministry because of his love and passion for the spiritual Psalms and other scripture, singing hymns like I Come to formation of young people. When my father retired the Garden Alone and Sweet Hour of Prayer. from Deutz Allis in 1998, our Director of Development hired him to work with our senior donors because of My mother and father marked their 58th Wedding his zeal for Youthfront and his pastoral giftedness. For Anniversary while he was in the hospital - two beautiful the last fifteen years, my father fulfilled his ultimate people - two wonderful parents - two awesome grand ambition, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in fulltime and great grandparents – two amazing servants of the ministry. Not only did he love and serve a large group Lord Jesus Christ. This picture was taken a few days of Youthfront donors, he loved and ministered to so before he went into the hospital. many young people who have come to see him as their spiritual grandfather. He was also wholly devoted to prayer. I’ve never known a man who prayed more than my father. In 70 years of Youthfront history, we’ve never had a more committed prayer advocate than Dave King. He was a great friend, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, but most of all a man of God. In July, I left Kansas City for a two week speaking tour in New Zealand. While I was speaking at the Salvation Army National Youth Workers Conference, my wife, Vicki called to inform me that my father was going to have unexpected surgery due to a hietal hernia. Shortly after the surgery, things started to go wrong. A few days later, Vicki called me in the middle of the night in Wellington, NZ, telling me to get home as soon as I could because my father had taken a serious turn for the worse. This news was unbearably painful coming from the opposite side of the world. It was devastating to know my entire After five long, exhausting and frightening weeks family was telling my father goodbye and I couldn’t be my father was able to leave the hospital to begin with them. rehabilitation therapy. We had hoped this phase would take no more than five to six weeks before he would be I took the first flight I could get and hoped I would get able to return home and eventually back to the ministry home before it was too late. It was overwhelming to he love so much. The first several days he made great see him connected to so many tubes but the fact that progress. He was committed to doing twice the amount he was still alive was amazing given the prognosis. He of rehab they planned for him. He was even able to acknowledged my presence by squeezing my hand and have his first field trip, attending our granddaughter opening his eyes for a few seconds. I prayed for him (his great-granddaughter) Teagan’s first birthday party and quoted Psalm 23 over him.