The First Student We Ever Reached

You’ve seen the Reach updates and you’ve watched the fly-over land videos on social media, and excited as we are about our new building, we’re most excited about the PEOPLE that will be joining our church family.
This isn’t the first time we’ve moved! It’s amazing to see how, throughout the years, there have been people that arrived at a certain stage of our journey that have helped us build toward the next. One of those people is Luke Newby.
Luke is our Middle School Director and oversees Lift, our weekend student environment. What most people don’t know about Luke, is that he and his sister were the very first students to attend Milestone’s student ministry, and now he’s leading in the very environment that his life was changed in.
Today Luke shares about his journey the last 15 years and why he is so passionate about giving toward our new church home.

"My upbringing wasn’t what you would call ideal. My parents struggled through alcohol and drug addiction, and it ultimately led to their divorce. Dysfunction and chaos were things I witnessed first hand. I knew there was something more to life than the brokenness I had experienced and it only took a few key individuals looking past my weird dress code and eccentric attitude to show me that God cared deeply for me and wanted to use my life to impact others.

Read the full post The First Student We Ever Reached on the Milestone Church Blog.