Pastor Scott with co-pastor, deacons, and youth workers (above)
“Pastor Scott got together with many of us here as church members to be a part in helping some of our youth get job experience. Within such an opportunity they’ve learned what it means to have a job, to be on-time and learn life skills along with what it means to serve our Lord and Savior,” Reverend Steve Warren recently told us.
When it comes to working, having a job or simply making a living, many of us by now understand what usually comes with the territory, yet to learn such as soon as possible is a plus for our youth within today’s society.
The Macedonia Baptist Church family is seeing to it that many of our local youth experience just that: the basics and fundamentals of holding a job and the duties that entail such.
This latest program through the Macedonia Work Ministry consisted of Pastor Scott, with the help of co-pastors, deacons, church elders and others, and proved beneficial to those willing to take on the opportunity for their first job experience.
The youth have benefitted from the month-long experience tremendously.
Macedonia Church’s elder Ms. Beverly Benefield told us, “They’ve learned about working together, how to become friends on the job and learning that everyone on a job may not necessarily like you, but it’s all about learning to work together and accomplishing a necessary goal. We’ve tried to teach them that despite such you must love all you come into contact with even on your job.”
We also spoke to two of our youth workers, Kayin Broom and Evan Ruggs, who detailed their experience with their first job through Macedonia and even showed enthusiasm when realizing the perks of making a paycheck.
Ms. Broom told us, “This experience has been good because I learned about teamwork, how to save money, and building connections with people. This has made me want to make my own money working an honest job. I’d tell others my age to go out and seek such an opportunity and learn to be on-time most of all and do what you’re supposed to do.”
Mr. Ruggs expounded upon such, stating, “I really appreciated working here and the experience. I sort of have some experience doing certain things work related, but I’ve learned how to clean better and even communicate more.”
Ms. Benefield shared that throughout this first Macedonia Work Program they went through the full traditional job process, from conducting interviews to orientation protocols.
We also asked some questions regarding the current states of many of our youth and how we as older individuals can be better examples to them.
Many of us believe that neither the Word of God nor the life of Jesus is being taught as much as it should be. Reverend Warren alluded to such, saying, “Here at Macedonia we try to walk as we talk and teach Jesus. We’re here to work with our youth and let God do the rest.”
Mr. John E. Jackson stated from observation, “We’ve noticed that our youth are plagued with much anger. This group of teenagers have shown exceptional work ethics and the willingness to learn, yet many of their counterparts are dealing with a lot of anger, and we must get to the root of such so that we can do with them what we’ve had the opportunity to do with this group, and that’s to help them and teach them how to be vital contributors to society and the various career fields that are available to them today.”
We show gratitude and support to Pastor Scott and the Macedonia Baptist Church family for the examples they are setting for us to be responsible and caring persons to our younger generations by taking out time to teach them and also learn with them so that we won’t simply neglect them and allow them to go astray within an ever-changing world.
Let’s band together and see to it our next generations are ready and able to face the world, with our patience and guidance, and the determination to succeed no matter what.