The Following is a Guest Post by Kyle Duncan, Assistant Director of YouthHOPE, and a partner with The Way. Make sure to check out YouthHOPE, and all of our partners, here.

I grew up in a church.  It was a place where young people were shifted to some far corridor to participate in “Wee Worship” or “Junior Church” while the adults sat through “Big Church.”  I never missed Sunday School and had more than one decidedly un-cool youth minister.  I can attribute much of my early spiritual formation to one of those “t-shirt-tucked-into-jeans-with-no-belt” mentors.  His investment in me led to...