Some New Editions To The Team

Mike Avery


Brittney Rost


CW Allen




This school year the Youth Outreach department at Sunshine will be adding 3 new staff persons to their roster: CW Allen, Brittney Rost, and Michael Avery. CW & Brittney will be pioneering a new high school student ministry, while Mike will be helping coordinate our after school programs for 2nd through 8th graders. We are very excited for all 3 of them to join our team! Each of them have unique gifts, talents, and passions in the area of youth ministry.

CW is a native of Cleveland, OH. He is soon to be a junior at Moody Bible Institute. CW was active in youth ministry at his home church in Cleveland, as well as in the area youth for Christ. He is also a Christian hip hop artist, and continues to write music and minister at various church and community events throughout the midwest. You can read more about CW at his blog, and you can also listen to his music on his Myspace page. Although CW is a Cleveland Browns fan, we will not hold that against him.

Brittney is a native of Elkhart, IN. She graduated this past spring from Moody, earning a degree in Urban Ministry. Brittney has been actively serving at Sunshine throughout her four years at Moody. She has assisted at AWANA, at our after school program, as a mentor to our young girls, and as a camp counselor one summer. She will join our staff with many ministry relationships already established! You can read more about Brittney at her blog entitled "City Light".

CW & Brittney will be part of a unique collaborative effort between Sunshine and Young Life. We are pooling our resources (financially and ministerially) in order to bring on this staff tandem. In addition, CW and Brittney will be raising a 1/3 of their salary as well. They are both currently seeking monthly supporters who will come alongside them in this endeavor. If you have any questions about how you could join their support team, shoot me an email at dave@sunshinegospel.org

Mike grew up in Chicago, approximately 30 blocks southeast of Sunshine. Mike recently completed a multi-year discipleship program in Arizona known as the Master's Commission. He began as a student there, and then transitioned into leadership. During his time there he used his dancing ability as a vehicle to share the gospel with teens at outreach events. He was a great intern with our summer staff this summer, and will now be doing a one year internship with us in partnership with TechMission.

Please continue to keep our Youth Outreach Team lifted up in prayer. We really desire to see the Gospel transform the lives of our kids, their families, and our neighborhood!