Rev. Marvin Jacobo Ministry Coordinator of Tapestry

In my years of ministry God has blessed me with many great opportunities, but none more important than a call to minister to young people of diverse ethnic, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. It has been an incredible journey to be identified with the “least of these”.

That's why I've joined the team at Youth for Christ Central Valley and created our ministry called Tapestry.

What is Tapestry, you ask? Well just what it implies: a beautiful interweaving of many different threads and fabrics. We see that beauty in many of our higher-risk neighborhoods.

Through YFC’s efforts with Tapestry and the many volunteers working with us, we believe God is doing something special in the greater Modesto area. Something far and abundantly beyond anything we could hope for or dream. People’s lives are being changed…

Tapestry is in the midst of its fifth year of ministry at YFC. God has blessed us with the opportunity to plant Tapestry teams in West Modesto (Paradise Rd.), South Modesto (near Hanshaw Middle School) Salida and Downtown Modesto (12th & M Streets). Our plan is to plant as many Tapestry sites in our underserved neighborhoods as we can in the coming years.

Each Tapestry site meets on Monday evenings in a high energy, caring, and loving atmosphere. Through this combination of the large groups and small groups, we hope to minister to hundreds if not thousands of young people and bring them God's truth through culturally relevant music, drama, sports, food, the arts and certainly by teaching from God's Word.

You might say we have started a “youth church”...but be assured we are making every effort to team up with local area churches and to create the bridges and pathways necessary to ensure that every young person who comes to know Jesus through our efforts will be followed up with, developed into a life long follower of Jesus Christ, and be plugged into a local body of believers.

Want to find out more, or join us? Please give me a call at (209) 522-9568, or email me at mjacobo@scyfc.com

MJ

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