Personal Narrative: My Relationship With Kids Ministry

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For as long as I can remember I’ve been going to church. Starting off I went to church to go to Royal Rangers, but I didn’t see much past that. Going to Royal Rangers built the foundation of what my relationship with God would be today, but it wasn’t until about ninth grade that I would actually begin to take my relationship with God seriously. In ninth grade, just like every other high schooler, I began to look for a way to get community service hours and I thought of doing kids ministry. By volunteering with kids ministry, I began to build a relationship with some of the pastors, because of that I began to see how bad my relationship with God was, and they began to pour into my life. I began to take worship more seriously and through

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