Myrtle Springs Baptist Church, Hooks, Texas, recently welcomed its new youth minister, Ben Hill.
Hill, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., joined the church following the FUGE Youth Camp at Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss.
Even though he was a youth minister for First Baptist Church Counce of Counce, Tenn., he spent much of his time at the camp with the MSBC youth group, who were looking for a new youth minister.
After Terri Schutte, a member of the MSBC search committee, asked him if he was interested in being the church's new youth minister, he prayed with his wife, Katherine, and sent in his resume.
Following a Skype interview with the search committee and a visit to MSBC, Hill became the church's new youth minister.
"It is a joy being part of this wonderful church family with so many amazing men, women, students, and children" Hill said. "It is a place that we can call home. It truly is an honor to serve the students and parents of MSBC and the Hooks community."
Hill will be joined by his family, which consists of his wife and their 20-month-old son, Blake, with another son expected in March.
In addition to his ministry experience, Hill also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Fine Arts from the University of Memphis and is working on a Masters of Divinity through Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Cordova, Tenn.
Youth are welcome to attend the following MSBC services: Sunday school at 9 a.m. on Sundays, discipleship class at 5 p.m. on Sundays and weekly 10:31 worship service at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays.
He and some of the church's high school students will help with church planting in Denver during the summer and then return to Mississippi College for FUGE, where they will work in soup kitchens and participate in other ministry opportunities.