Adventist Youth Ministries

About Us

Vision: Every Youth Doing what Jesus Commanded.

Mission: To love, inspire, equip, and support children, youth, and young adults as they connect with Jesus, mingle with, and serve their community with their talents.

Youth Director

Pr Christian Genao

(516) 467-5211 cgenao@gnyc.org

Administrative Assistant

Verónica Chaug

(516) 467-5212 youth@gnyc.org

Adventist Youth

Hosting programs with an intentional emphasis on prayer and Bible study on relevant topics that connect with the challenges of daily life.
Promoting young adult get-togethers to have fun and to make new friends in the faith.
Mentoring those who attend non-Adventist colleges in the city and state, and empowering them to exercise their faith and live out their beliefs.
Advocating for the inclusion of more young adults in the leadership of local churches.
Training and supporting Adventist Youth Ministries in the local church.
Promoting a balanced lifestyle as stewards of God with our time, finances, and the use of our bodies.
Helping every youth and child to be a member of the Pathfinder or Adventurer clubs.
Promoting, training, and explaining the importance of memorizing and sharing the scriptures through the PBE (Pathfinder Bible Experience), and developing the habit of personal study.
Strengthening and promoting the puppet ministry, to teach our Adventurers spiritual lessons from Bible characters that they can apply in their lives.
Cultivating spirituality as the primary norm to rule our Camporees.

Strengthening our School of Leadership and Evangelism by offering courses relevant to the needs of youth and young adults.
Helping youth to recognize the importance of public speaking in order to lead and serve in the local church.
Preparing the youth and young adults to evangelize by developing their skills as they contribute to the communication and audio-visual ministries in the local churches.
Being intentional in regard to the mental health of our youth and young adults by establishing a Mental Health Track on the Adventist Counseling Certification.
Equipping our instructors and inspire them to grow professionally.
Developing and supporting TLT coordinators in every geographical area of our conference.
Forming and promoting TLT clubs by area.
Advocating for leadership opportunities for the teenagers in the local church and in conference programs.
Enhancing the mentorship program, to develop new ministry leaders.
Expanding the staff (as needed), by adding new leaders who have come out of the School of Leadership and Evangelism.
Caring for the staff's physical, mental, and spiritual health as they minister to the youth in the conference.
Appointing new leaders in charge of the Master Guide program in each area.
Motivating and supporting the churches that want to establish a local Master Guide School sponsored by the GNYC Youth Department.
Inspiring the Master Guides to assist the churches that do not have Pathfinder or Adventurer Clubs.

Affirming the belief that 'united in mission we will go'.
Inspiring every club in the local church to recruit non-Adventist members in their community.
Encouraging every Adventist Youth Society in the local churches to reach out to nonbelievers and to youth who left the church.
Promoting and supporting youth evangelism programs by area by establishing sports leagues and tournaments in which the youth can invite nonbelievers to play and share their faith with them.
Baptizing youth and young adults at every Camporee and summer camp.
As a department, preparing and distributing evangelistic, youth-oriented material to foster a discipleship culture within our youth and young adults.
Promoting and creating space for mission trips in which our youth and young adults connect and share the love of Jesus in places in need.
To grow the Youth Department social media platforms by including formative, spiritual, and evangelistic content.
To establish a podcast to connect with youth and young adults in our conference and create content suggested by them.
To encourage every Youth Department and club ministry in the local church to use the media to bless and communicate to their communities.
To inspire youth and young adults to share the love of Jesus through their social media platforms.