Nathan Steingrebe and his
wife Liz
wife Liz
We welcome Nathan Steingrebe and his family to our parish. Nathan began work as our Director of Youth Ministries on June 27, and chances are you’ve already seen or heard him. He is gifted with ebullience and sanguinity, a most positive outlook, and besides that, he rides a motor scooter. It is true that four of us staff, including your scribe, commute on two-wheeled vehicles. Nathan makes our fifth staff scooter-operator.
I first met Nathan in 1999, when he was at St. Stanislaus. Back then he was TOOC, as the hordes of his young disciples would say (“totally out of control”). He has acquired a more prudential approach to life in the intervening 12 years, as well as a wife and two children. In fact, Nathan married Liz Vallejo (now known as Liz Steingrebe), the daughter of Holy Family Parish’s Deacon Phil Vallejo. Nathan and Liz have two children, Maria Rose and Maximilian Bear. They are all delighted to move back to Modesto.
I say move back, because Nathan grew up in Modesto. He went to Turlock High School and became quite active as a volunteer at St. Stanislaus. He worked four years in youth ministry at St. Stan’s, then a few years at Simile Construction here in town. In 2009 he moved to Houston, Texas, to work as youth minister at St. Cecilia’s parish. In Texas he integrated youth ministry with the Parish Confirmation Program, with over 350 teens a week, drawing them to the love of Christ and service to the community. He helped form a core team of 55 young adults to serve the teens one-on-one, and involved the parents in support services.
It is just this kind of youth ministry that we hope Nathan can develop at St. Joseph’s. He will be gearing up over the summer to launch our Confirmation program as youth ministry. For the first year of our two-year confirmation program, Nathan, his core team, and our clergy will evangelize our teens in dynamic activities rather than teaching them in a classroom. Only in the second year will the confirmation students enter into more formal classroom instruction. We hope that by then, they will have met Jesus personally and come to love him themselves. We hope that by the second year, they will be going to Mass every Sunday and bringing their parents; going to adoration on their own and bringing their friends; going to school with Christian joy and radiating it to their peers. You will see a lot of Nathan and his Core Team not only at the Youth Mass but at many parish events. I am pleased and excited to welcome Nathan and his family back to Modesto!
I first met Nathan in 1999, when he was at St. Stanislaus. Back then he was TOOC, as the hordes of his young disciples would say (“totally out of control”). He has acquired a more prudential approach to life in the intervening 12 years, as well as a wife and two children. In fact, Nathan married Liz Vallejo (now known as Liz Steingrebe), the daughter of Holy Family Parish’s Deacon Phil Vallejo. Nathan and Liz have two children, Maria Rose and Maximilian Bear. They are all delighted to move back to Modesto.
I say move back, because Nathan grew up in Modesto. He went to Turlock High School and became quite active as a volunteer at St. Stanislaus. He worked four years in youth ministry at St. Stan’s, then a few years at Simile Construction here in town. In 2009 he moved to Houston, Texas, to work as youth minister at St. Cecilia’s parish. In Texas he integrated youth ministry with the Parish Confirmation Program, with over 350 teens a week, drawing them to the love of Christ and service to the community. He helped form a core team of 55 young adults to serve the teens one-on-one, and involved the parents in support services.
It is just this kind of youth ministry that we hope Nathan can develop at St. Joseph’s. He will be gearing up over the summer to launch our Confirmation program as youth ministry. For the first year of our two-year confirmation program, Nathan, his core team, and our clergy will evangelize our teens in dynamic activities rather than teaching them in a classroom. Only in the second year will the confirmation students enter into more formal classroom instruction. We hope that by then, they will have met Jesus personally and come to love him themselves. We hope that by the second year, they will be going to Mass every Sunday and bringing their parents; going to adoration on their own and bringing their friends; going to school with Christian joy and radiating it to their peers. You will see a lot of Nathan and his Core Team not only at the Youth Mass but at many parish events. I am pleased and excited to welcome Nathan and his family back to Modesto!
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