Testimonials

Reports from those who found a job

Christopher Thompson reports:
I just wanted to say thank you. I graduated from Grace College and was in the midst of Grace Seminary when I happened to surf by the YS site. I went through the Job Openings section and decided to apply for a couple. I am now working as the director of youth at a church in Ohio. The church fits me like a glove! I never dreamed that my first full-time church would be so perfect.

Brian Valentine reports:
I'm a junior Christian Education major at Messiah College. With the training I'm getting in my classes and an internship this summer, I thought I'd see what the Lord had for me back at school. So I did a little research and found your Web site. I searched the NE region (Messiah College is in PA), and found a part-time job opening 15 minutes from campus!

So I interviewed at the church, got a call a couple of days later offering me the position, and I accepted it right away. I am now the very proud part-time director of student ministries at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Mechanicsburg, PA.

God is incredible! It completely amazes me how God can work through e-mail and Web pages.

Marion Lewis Pollard reports:
Thank you for use of your fantastic Web site. Through the use of your Web site God used it to find a church for me and my wife to serve with. Thanks! If you could please remove my resumé of the list that would be great.

Robert R. Leffel reports:
Thanks for posting my resumé. Happy to inform you that I got a job within two weeks of posting my resumé on your site!

Jake Lee reports:
Thank you so much for your job board! My wife and I have been called—and accepted that call—at a church as a youth pastor. We are so excited! And so thankful. By far we got the most responses to our resumé from your Web site, and found the most possible placements. This is such a blessing, and I thank you.

Mark Thrash reports:
Thank you guys so much for having this Job Bank on your Web site. I have had nearly 15 inquiries in 10 days.

Ben McClary reports:
I want to thank you very much for providing your Job Bank to churches and youth pastors looking for a new ministry relationship. I listed my resumé with you a couple of months ago and just this past week accepted a ministry position from a church who found me because of the Youth Specialties list. I am excited about this new opportunity and believe that this is the best ministry "match" that I have been involved with, yet, in my 10 years of youth ministry. Thanks again and God bless!

D. Eric Anderson reports:
Thank you so much for providing the Job Bank service. God has sent my wife and I an incredible call through the Job Bank ministry. Thank you for connecting us to an incredible ministry.

Steve Atkins reports:
Thank you for the job bank, I have just accepted a position from a church that read my resumé on your site. You can remove it from your list. I love Youth Specialties, it has helped my ministry in so many ways!

Reports from those who posted a job opening

Dr. Richard Moulton reports:
I wanted to write you and say thanks for your job listing service. Our church posted an ad for a youth director before Christmas. We received about 15 resumés and invited one candidate to come and visit us after several telephone conversations. He has accepted our call and we can honestly say that he exceeds all of our expectations. Thanks for being there and for listing our position. It works!

Ross Anderson reports:
Thanks very much for posting the position. We also sent it to 40 different Bible colleges and seminaries, but one-third of the candidates who filled out our application found us at your site, including some of our most promising candidates.

Todd Mitchell reports:
You guys rock! Thanks for posting our job and for providing a service useful to all in youth ministry. We were able to interview three people as a direct result of your Web site and greatly appreciate your assistance.

Dan Krodel reports:
The Position for Youth Pastor at David's Church has been filled. PLEASE remove our listing. You guys have done such a good job, we keep getting bombarded with applications.

Captain Misty Simco reports:
Once again Youth Specialties you've helped us greatly in finding just the right youth pastor for the job. So you may now remove our listing. Thank you so much for this ministry. You make finding the right person for the job much easier—God is good all the time :)

Andrew Barton reports:
The Presbyterian Church at Woodbury, Woodbury, NJ has filled the youth director position. Please remove our notice from the job openings list. THANK YOU for this wonderful service. It is one of the few places that actually generated resumés in our search for a youth director. Thank you for this ministry.

Ken Duty reports:
Please remove the posting for the youth pastor position at Andover Assembly of God in Andover KS. Thank you very much. We had over 100 replies to our posting. What a blessing and a powerful tool. God bless you all!

Bill O'Connell reports:
We just hired a youth director (who made the contact with us from you!) so you may remove our listing. We truly appreciate this service—we got more solid leads from people who saw us on your site than anywhere else.

Bob Lee reports:
Youth Specialties has been an absolute God-send! We have been positively overwhelmed with solid, qualified candidates. Thank you so much for this wonderful resource.

Sarah Richardson reports:
We are very happy to report that we have found a new youth director for our church by posting on your site. We probably received 25-30 applications in a few months time thanks to your site. Prior to that we had been in the search process for almost a year receiving very few applicatons in that time.