Young Leaders
Leading by Example Filling the Role God Intends
As soon as she got her master’s degree, Cynda Grant was ready to dive straight into serving at her local church. “During graduate school, there really weren’t opportunities for me to be involved, so as soon as I graduated, I was more than ready.” She started with the Adventurer Club at her home church in Baton Rouge, and a puppet team at Ozark Adventist Academy. When she and her husband, David, moved to Shreveport in 2011, Grant gravitated toward the younger members again, and now she’s the children’s ministries director as well as Adventurer Club leader. “I love working with young people because they’re much more open to and excited about learning new things,” Grant explains. “Plus, I’m shy and I find adults intimidating, so I’m much more comfortable with kids.” When Grant became a mother, it made even more sense. From the beginning it was important to her and her husband to inspire their children to be active members of the church. Their girls are now 10, 13, and 15, and Grant and her husband simply get them involved in whatever it is they’re doing. As a family they’ve kept Christ front and center, even through the COVID-19 pandemic when the physical church building was closed. “We got the girls involved in creating church services for our family at home, and they got really creative,” Grant shares. “Our oldest scripted, directed and filmed with her phone a video depicting the story of Saul on the road to Damascus. We posted it on Facebook and the response was overwhelmingly positive, so we started a YouTube channel and made more,” she shares. Grant’s own parents and grandparents were always very active in the church, and they inspired her to be the same. As she aims to pass this dedication to the next generation both in
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