Noah
Noah joined us here in October 2004...
A couple of years ago, Noah spent several months here living with Tim and Byron, helping out a bit with some of our youth leaders at Shalom Church and getting to know a bunch of our College and Career crowd. After returning home (in Augusta, GA), Noah decided to enroll in Augusta College to finish his degree... majoring in Psychology and minoring in Spanish. During this time, Noah expressed an interest in returning to Mérida to help out in any way he could... his biggest concern was how he could be useful in the ministry here.
When he was here before we had observed that Noah had been able to develop relationships with quite a few of the leaders in Shalom Pres. Church and that his abilities as a musician had endeared him to our praise and worship team. As we discussed possible ministry options, we felt strongly that Noah could be used to help develop the music ministry at Shalom... this was confirmed to us as we began discussing the possibility of his return with the Shalom leadership.
Without going into a lot of detail, the subject of music as a ministry in the church has been an area that we have long desired to see addressed. Although Noah has had limited “formal” musical training, he has an extremely diverse musical background and is able to draw upon a wide variety of experience in “ecclesiastical” settings as he works with our musicians in Shalom. Since his arrival in early October, Noah has demonstrated a willingness to serve in any way the Lord might see fit to use him. He was immediately reintegrated into the praise and worship team for our Sunday morning and evening services, is participating in the musical group that supports our Saturday afternoon children’s ministry and is offering drum (and English) classes to a number of members of our congregation. We are also discussing possible opportunities that might exist for him to become involved at CEBP and the San Pablo Seminary.
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