Testimonials  Learning with peers, nurtured in families, and supported by a vibrant church and thriving business community, young Christians are being helped to transition from college to an authentic, productive and faithful life in the real world.   The Memorial Drive Fellows program is a gift to participants and a blessing for the Kingdom! Dr. Chuck Simmons Senior Minister at Memorial Drive UMC “I am most excited about the new Fellows Program here at Memorial Drive Church.  As a youth director and father of two young adults, I am all for programs that help college graduates discern God’s calling in their lives.  Having the Fellows in ministry with our youth at the church will change lives.  I know that Memorial Drive United Methodist Church will lovingly embrace our Fellows and do all we can to help build leaders in the church.  Our Memorial Drive Fellows will make a difference in our church, in Houston, and in the greater Kingdom.” Steve Cragg Director of Youth Ministries at Memorial Drive UMC “We live in a time when the voice of The Church has been largely relegated to a place of irrelevance by the artist, the businessman and the academy.   To be sure, God calls His people to respond to this label of irrelevance in a very real way.  In response to this call, the Fellows Program seeks to engage the culture for Christ by giving young men and women the tools to be thoughtful, winsome revolutionaries; to be dreamers and doers for the Kingdom of God; people who bring forth God’s beauty, goodness and truth in the broken places of this world.” Dennis Doran Director of the Trinity Fellows, Charlottesville, Virginia "What does it mean for me to be a Christian in the world?  It may seem odd, but I had never seriously asked myself that question until I entered the Fellows Program.  I was challenged to think in new ways about my faith and life in light of God's larger purposes for the world.  No longer can I separate the 'sacred' and the 'secular' - the 'church' stuff and the 'other' stuff.  Jesus is Lord of it all.  Being a part of a community that embraced this vision forever changed my understanding of my own life story - in all its messy brokenness - and helped me see that I am part of the much larger story of God's redeeming love." K.C. Flynn Former member of MDUMC Youth Staff, Falls Church Fellow 2004-2005