This is a pic of most, if not all of the Los Angels District Nazarene Youth Pastors ("...Now the Jedi are all but gone.")
We were in Phoenix for NYC (Nazarene Youth Congress)in 1995. Great week. Newsboys were there, Tony Campolo was there---and actually preaching the gospel, we floated the Salt River, played paint ball, and survived a bus with no air conditioning as the heat crested at 122 degrees.
This was when I learned the myth of the statement: "Everything over 100 degrees is all the same." NO. For several days we hovered between 119 and 122 and then winter set in and the temperature dropped to 113 (burr!)
From left to right (to the best of my memory): Ray Baker (L.A. Grace and still in the biz), Bill Carroll (Newhall Church, now in Idaho I think), Benny Gonzalez (Rowland Heights, now a missionary), Becky Piatt (Pasadena 1st., moved to Ohio, I never gave back her "Lost Dogs" tape), Joe T. (Temple City, I don't know what happened to him), Alan Holmes (Santa Maria, now living in Bakersfield), Jim Morwood (Pasadena 1st., I believe he is still the campus dean at Azusa Pacific), Steve Cobbs (Had just arrived at Atascadero from Ridgecrest, and is now pastoring in Apple Valley), in front of Steve is Traci Fenimore (District NYI President, serving at Camarillo, currently pastoring in Ventura), to Steve's left, barely in the picture is Keith Stephenson (Pismo Beach, he went into missions. When I met Keith he made a joke, I smarted back; "Like you're a rocket scientist", it turned out he was really a rocket scientist at Vandenburg who went into the ministry), to Traci's left Mike Schoonover (Pasadena First, retired and living la vida loca), and Mike Kipp (San Luis Obispo, who I believe is now Dr. Kipp teaching at Northwest Nazarene College in Idaho.)
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