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Jim Candy, who for 10 years was director of student and family ministries at First Presbyterian Church of Boulder, Colorado, has been named pastor for a newly integrated Family Life Ministries program at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, church spokesperson Nicole Laubscher announced Tuesday.
The Family Life Ministries programs serves children from infancy through high school, Ms. Laubscher said.
“We have brought these ministries together under one leader to help us better launch our children to a lifetime of faith,” John Ortberg, senior pastor at Menlo Presbyterian, said in a press release.
Mr. Candy, a native of Boulder, Colorado, recently received his master of divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
“Kids today have more pressure than ever to achieve, perform, and compete,” said Mr. Candy said in the press release. “We want to be a place where kids of all ages can feel loved for who they are, as they are.”
The church has a “strong focus of teaching kids the value of helping others here in our community and around the world,” Mr. Candy said.
Student groups travel to cities such as San Francisco and New Orleans and countries such as Mexico and Guatemala to help feed the hungry and build schools and homes, said Ms. Laubscher.
The church has a children’s choir music program and Christian parenting programs and events, she said.
The church is working with Newton Centers and the Menlo Park City School District to use church classrooms for after-school care for students in the district.
Menlo Presbyterian also supports foster children, she said. In July, 31 adults served as counselors at week-long camp for some 50 foster kids.
The Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, with main offices at 950 Santa Cruz Ave., has been in Menlo Park for more than 135 years. The church also has campuses in San Mateo and Mountain View.
