...learning about Solace, the youth had worked to collect coats as part of their mission efforts for Afghanistan. When youth director Patty Gilbert shared the great medical needs with the teens, "they were ready to go to help," Gilbert recalled...

...Ludwig was accompanied by three other Columbia County teens and then-Wesley United Methodist Church high school youth director Curtiss Gibbs and his wife, Shannon. The other teens were recent Greenbrier graduates Clay Singletary and Scott...

...leader. "Mrs. (Kathy) McVeigh used to be one of my youth directors," said Kathryn, the daughter of Richard and Angelyn...anybody in the world, I'd be like her." McVeigh, a youth director at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church, exemplifies...

...United Methodist Church gym, Wheeler Road at South Belair Road. Brown bag fundraiser A fundraiser for David Bohling, youth director of Marvin United Methodist Church who is in need of a new prosthetic leg, will take place Thursday with donation...

...build a well in that village during their next trip. "It's become kind of like a family event," Middle School Youth Director Patty Gilbert said of the annual 5K. "We've had different mission projects every year." The past two years...

...they titled May I Take Your Coat to Afghanistan, and got busy, said Patty Gilbert, the church's middle school youth director. "They took it and ran with it," Gilbert said, adding that the youths put out collection boxes in the church...