Vocation

Our local paper recently did a piece on Shaun Hover. If you want to read the entire piece, click here. Here is an excerpt of the article.

Hover took a second course of study — on missionary development and leadership training — at YWAM and then designed and led his own outreach trip to Barcelona, Spain. The city attracts young skateboarders from around the world every summer.

“A lot of them are lost and looking for anything ... going from party to party. We got to know so many people,” he said. “I got to sit down with guys for coffee and tell them, ‘This is what I see happening in your life and you know it’s not good.’ I’d let them know God loves them. I’d talk about the good qualities God gave them and they’d share their struggles and open up to me.”

Drifting through life

Josh Graves, teaching minister for Rochester Church of Christ, said young people — especially those living in affluent communities — need to hear that message. He said some young adults today “stretch” their adolescence into their 20s and drift from “pipe dream to pipe dream, living week to week” without using their talents or becoming genuinely engaged in society. “We’ve got a whole generation now that have been living off the hard work of parents and grandparents. There are some Gen-Xers and Milleniums that are engaged, but there is a huge chunk of folks who are just drifting,” Graves said.

Hover spoke to 250 middle school and high school students last weekend at Rochester Church of Christ, incorporating his skateboard into his message.