RIO GRANDE YOUNG ADULTS

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RIO GRANDE YOUNG ADULTS

• Texas/New Mexico

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Who are we?

• Rio Grande Young Adults is a group of YAs
  located in Western Texas and New Mexico.
• Our campgrounds are located in the mountains of
  New Mexico (Mayhill).
• One of our greatest challenges is the distance
  between all members.

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Alamogordo, New Mexico

• Darla Broughton
• Chazka Henry
• Katie Mike Hatcher
• Kata Henry

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Jessica Wertman
• Daniel Reider
• Dee Dee Newell
• Mychala Prather

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Amarillo, Texas

• Dustin Brown
• Josh Phillips

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Artesia, New Mexico

• Holly and Kellen Pacheco

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Las Cruces, New Mexico

• Mike Cole (NMSU)
• Emilio Martin
• Paco Martin
• Ryan Reed (NMSU)
• Caleb Caley (NMSU)
• Daniel Stephens
• Beth Myers (NMSU)
• Bryan Hulbert (NMSU)
• Tabitha Peterson (NMSU)

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Lubbock, Texas

• GJ Burns (Texas Tech)
• Alex Frye (Texas Tech)
• Josh Frye (South Plains)
• Miranda Williams (Texas Tech)
• Joey White (Texas Tech)

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Mayhill, New Mexico

• Barbara Stephens

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Midland, Texas

• Cole Carter
• Matt Koonce

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Out of Area (but we still consider them part of
the group!)

• Ben and Tosha Bevel (Ft Bragg, NC)
• John Denton (California)
• Thomas Denton (Austin, TX)
• Jason Dixon (Salt Lake City, Utah)
• Daniel Myers (Japan)
• Shelby Williams (Phoenix, AZ)
• Julia Dale (Lamoni, IA)
• Rory Payne (Dallas, Texas)

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Ministry _at_ Camp Ziyoca

• For many of us we make the yearly trek to
  Mayhill, NM to be a camp counselor at Camp
  Ziyoca. This ministry works with 7th 12th grade
  students teaching them about the love of Christ!

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Campground Manager (and YA) Barbara Stephens
Sunset over Camp Ziyoca
YA Retreat (Back row L to R) GJ Burns, Shelby
Williams, Tosha Bevel, ____ (Front Row L to R)
Matt Koonce, Barbara Stephens, Dee Dee Newell
2008 Camp Director Rory Payne
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Junior Camp!

• Some other young adults help with the Junior Camp
  ministering to children in the 3rd through the
  6th grade.

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Our Stories

• My name is Glenn Burns and I am an Elder for
  the Community of Christ living in Lubbock, Texas.
  Currently I am finishing my Senior year at Texas
  Tech University in the field of Landscape
  Architecture.

For my senior project next semester, I hope
to work on a master plan for the Joseph Smith
Historic Site in Nauvoo, Illinois. Last summer I
worked at the site as a tour guide and started a
list of plants that would have been available in
the area during the 1840s. After graduation I
hope to move to Dallas/Fort Worth or Austin to
work for a landscape architecture firm.
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Our Stories (continued)

• My name is Shelby Williams and I am a
  graduate from Graceland University. I grew up
  driving from Kansas to the campgrounds of New
  Mexico every summer. This is where my mom grew up
  going to camp. The campgrounds became my place to
  go each year to find comfort and learn of
  Christs love. Now that I am older, I look
  forward to making the trek back to the
  campgrounds to be a camp counselor each summer. I
  think that one of our greatest recruiting
  activities in the Rio Grande Mission Center is
  bringing kids to the church camp to experience
  Christs love. I believe that as a counselor I
  can work to impact those that come to the camp so
  they will go home and tell their friends about
  their experiences. My hope is that everyone who
  leaves the campgrounds will go back home and
  reach out to their friends who have not gone to
  church and will get them hooked as well. If
  everyone reaches one other person, the impact on
  individual lives and our churches in the region
  would be amazing.

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Our Stories (continued)

• Las Cruces Young Adults
• On the 1st Sunday of every month, we have Bagel
  Time at Durango Bagel (on Solano) across the
  street from the church. We meet at 10am and most
  of those that meet with us attend the 11am
  workshop service.

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Our Stories (continued)

• John Denton
• On his way to California (from Durango,
  Colorado). John recently got his red card saying
  he has passed training to be a firefighter he
  wants to try his hand at fighting wildfires in
  California.

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Mission Center Roles

• Barbara Stephens
• Campground Manager
• Sacramento Mountain Retreat Camping Association
  Board
• GJ Burns
• Sacramento Mountain Retreat Camping Association
  Board
• Internship at Joseph Smith Historical Site in
  Nauvoo
• Rio Grande representative at IYF (Hong Kong)
• Beth Myers
• Rio Grande representative at IYF (Hong Kong)