Neil T. AndersonFreedom in Christ Ministries · Pastor

Hey, maybe I'll go into youth ministry

23 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, Speaker B recounts the moment they first sensed a call to ministry. While attending a junior‑year summer youth camp at Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, they observed their youth pastor playing sand‑pit volleyball and realized that ministry could be enjoyable work. At about 16‑17 years old, they thought, "I could do this for work"—seeing ministry as fun, easy, and centered around sports. The dialogue captures the spontaneous, personal nature of this vocational insight.

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No. You asked me what was my call to ministry. When did I know that God called me to be a pastor? So I remember in, I think it was my junior year, we were at Harvey Cedars on the New Jersey beaches for a summer camp with our youth group. And I remember playing sand pit volleyball and watching my youth pastor play with us and going, he looks like he's having fun. I think I could do this for work. Like, that was my first thought of going to youth
ministry. When this first thought hits you that you could have fun like this, if this is work, I could do it. How old are you?
Yeah, yeah, I was probably 16 or 17.
Okay. Awesome.
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so that was my first thought about, hey, I could do ministry. This looks fun. Easy. Play volleyball, sports. Yeah,
it's all we do.
That's right. That's all it takes.