Sylvester’s Growing Faith

Matt P., one of our interns, really enjoys connecting with his students at LaunchPad.

There is a guy in my class named Sylvester; he’s a fairly laid back guy and seems pretty quiet. What I like about him though is the questions he asks me when there is time after class. After the first class he attended, he came up to me afterwards and asked what the proper day to do the Sabbath on was. Pretty intense question, but I loved it. Here’s a kid who is really thinking about his faith and wants to understand it.

I think what I like most about Sylvester’s questions is that they are exactly like the ones I asked when I was in high school. I had my dad to give me answers back then and those answers solidified my faith during that time and helped me to keep it through today. I don’t know Sylvester’s parents—I do not even know if he has his parents around—but it is incredibly humbling to be playing, in some small way, the same role my dad did and in so doing, helping a young man from Qwa Qwa grow in his faith.

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