Pastor Cal called me into his office and offered me the job of youth pastor for Pointe North Church. I thought I was out of youth ministry and I thought I was on to other things, yet here I was in an office and Cal making a compelling sales pitch (as only he can). He gave me carte blanch to do whatever it takes to “rewrite the book in youth ministry”. Since then we have been in 7 locations, gone on 5 breakaways, 2 mission trips (1 to Mexico), and gone from about 12 students to over 250.
That first year was hell. I was an emotional mess, struggling with the whole idea of ministry and my place in it. We had 3 people on the ministry team. No access to the schools and my solid students went to a school 30 minutes away! We had no identity, no purpose and no idea where we were going. We stumbled around into the second year and then our mid week service began to take shape. The team began to build and I got on at St Johns Academy (the local private school). That changed the dynamic of the group, we built some solid student leaders.
Year three we began to take off and outgrew every building we went into. We went after some solid volunteers and PNCC allowed me to hire my first assistant. God revealed the “Half” campaign to me.
This past year has been monumentally awesome! God has blown the hinges off the doors of my expectations.
I can’t wait to see what he has in store for the years to come.
Sean Rheaume 
It has been a good 2 and a half years at Alive. We have grown from a total of what 10 high schoolers to almost 200. Thanks for letting me be a part of it.