Who we Are
CrossBridge Youth Ministry is a unique and vital aspect of our CrossBridge Family.
We seek to offer a space in which 6th through 12th grade students can encounter
God in real, meaningful, communal, and personal ways. Our mission is to empower
students to find their identity and purpose in Christ, stand out as sanctified people,
experience unified community, know God and make him known.
We seek to offer a space in which 6th through 12th grade students can encounter
God in real, meaningful, communal, and personal ways. Our mission is to empower
students to find their identity and purpose in Christ, stand out as sanctified people,
experience unified community, know God and make him known.
Meet The Leader
Noah Merritt
Youth Minister
Bio
"The Church has played a huge role in my life. God’s assembled children have been my community and my home since I was a child. My parents embedded a deep appreciation for the church and a desire to serve its members in the hearts of my three younger siblings and me.
Those roots began to produce fruit when I started to discern a calling to vocational ministry when I was about thirteen years old. My youth minister created some opportunities for me to teach my peers and step into leadership roles in a church setting. In those moments, I experienced God’s presence in overwhelming and undeniable ways. I felt God slowly begin to fill me with a passion to pastor His Church. I followed this calling to Lipscomb University, where I was able to cultivate my own unique relationship with God.
Today, I am seeking to put my faith (and my degree) to work by investing into the students here at Crossbridge. I am seeking to be a channel through which God’s love, truth, wisdom, peace, and joy can impact the lives of His beloved children. Specifically, I hope to be an avenue through which God can move to enable middle and high school students to find their sense of identity and purpose in Him." Noah grew up just outside of Nashville, TN, and has a degree in Theology and Ministry with minors in Spanish and Biblical Greek. He began serving at CrossBridge in February 2020. He enjoys disc golf, reading, ultimate frisbee, board games, and sitcoms.
Those roots began to produce fruit when I started to discern a calling to vocational ministry when I was about thirteen years old. My youth minister created some opportunities for me to teach my peers and step into leadership roles in a church setting. In those moments, I experienced God’s presence in overwhelming and undeniable ways. I felt God slowly begin to fill me with a passion to pastor His Church. I followed this calling to Lipscomb University, where I was able to cultivate my own unique relationship with God.
Today, I am seeking to put my faith (and my degree) to work by investing into the students here at Crossbridge. I am seeking to be a channel through which God’s love, truth, wisdom, peace, and joy can impact the lives of His beloved children. Specifically, I hope to be an avenue through which God can move to enable middle and high school students to find their sense of identity and purpose in Him." Noah grew up just outside of Nashville, TN, and has a degree in Theology and Ministry with minors in Spanish and Biblical Greek. He began serving at CrossBridge in February 2020. He enjoys disc golf, reading, ultimate frisbee, board games, and sitcoms.