YALT Picks Young Leaders
Inspired by a recent story in Christianity Today that highlighted 33 young leaders who are shaping the future of faith in the Church worldwide, the Christian Reformed Church’s Young Adult Leadership Taskforce (YALT) sought to do a similar thing.
YALT, in its case, decided to identify and include young and rising leaders in both the CRC and the Reformed Church in America.
YALT asked one question to leaders and agencies across the two denominations: “Who do you know under 40 that is doing something very innovative and/or is influential beyond their home church?”
After receiving many responses, YALT attempted “to pick the leaders with the most votes that represented the widest and most diverse spectrum of our collective movement.”
Those who were selected range from pastors, church planters, writers, missionaries, teachers and others.
The result of the effort is 40 Under 40 - a New Generation of Leaders in the CRC & RCA, which features 20 young leaders from each denomination.
In an introduction to its list of leaders, YALT says: “We hope what follows will not end this conversation, but start it – and that the exaltation for the work of each of these individuals goes to God for His gracious use of people and churches across North America and around the world.”
