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A Wonderful Start to Summer

In lieu of a devotional thought, I wanted to share some church updates as we have had a wonderful start to summer. We’re blessed as a church to have so many who volunteered at Celebrate Princeton in June and we enjoyed our fellowship at the Ridge-runners baseball game for faith night this past month. With Christian Acres church camp in full swing and a couple of events under our belt in addition to our ongoing weekly programming, I wanted to share three more things (really three people) that stand out to our summer’s start.

First of all it has been refreshing to have and to share a full slate of great activities for our youth this summer. Part of our vision for hiring a Full-Time Associate Minister of Youth was to utilize the summer as a season of traction and we have seen great support of the activities that Eric and his team planned for 2025. This also made our community outreach at Celebrate Princeton that much better when we have events and things to share with families. With Eric’s first full summer with us, we’re already seeing the fruit of this season!

Secondly we have been beyond blessed to have found such a quality intern for our Children’s Ministry this summer. Tori Brewster not only has been a great team player and instrumental in helping our team of volunteers, but the thoroughness in her planning our family events, and like with our youth, simply having summer activities to offer kids and their families in a season that we have been without a Children’s Minister has been equally impressive. Tori has a bright future, and she has been a blessing these first few weeks we’ve had her (she’ll be with us through VBS). To that end, please join me in praying for Tori as she continues her education in a big year before transferring to Vet School a year from now. I hope this paves the way for more summer interns in our future.

Lastly, I wanted to share how fortunate we also are for patience in our search for our next Children’s minister. We have such a wonderful church family; we were able have a highly engaged, diversified team help me in the interview processes and it is with great enthusiasm that we are adding to our tremendous team, Chasity Montang. Chasity and her husband David have been helping with our Kids ministry since last September, leading a Pioneer clubs class, and we’re excited about the momentum that this summer is giving us for our fall programming Please join me in welcoming Chasity to our staff as she officially makes her start on Monday, July 7.

It’s a great season to be at Maple View Church of Christ. And we are excited that you and your family are a part of it too!

Jeremiah Holcomb

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Sincerely,

Eric Vance, Associate Minister of Youth

We welcome chasity montang as children’s minister

The Montang family enjoys Maple View, and they are excited for this adventure in Children’s Ministry. They also enjoy scouting, karate, sports, and spending time on the family farm in Rocky Gap, VA with their family and fur babies: Elsa, Copper, Ozzy, and Tigger.

Chasity is a registered nurse and David is a veteran with a small business creating t-shirts, hats, and laser engraving. Ben, and now Nick, attend Bland Middle (6th - 8th grade), and Tommy enjoys homeschooling in Princeton at the 3H Academy in 3rd grade.

Ben thrives in building mode with 3D printing and Legos, Nick in sports and Tommy with Legos and Star Wars. Chasity’s heart is in service with children and prayer. David is an Eagle Scout and pours his heart into scouting.

Chasity says, “Thanks for getting to know us. We look forward to getting to know each of you.”