Adam was 18 when he married Carrie, the daughter of missionaries Larry and Janet Neville. They began to work with Adam’s dad at the church developing a youth ministry called Youth Aflame (based on the W. Pratney book of the same name). Adam knew that Christian teenagers were meant to do more than have pizza parties and bowling nights. He started a youth service on Wednesday nights where most things were done by the youth rather than for them.
Youth Aflame began to hold concerts and outreaches aimed at sharing the gospel with their generation. It didn’t matter what people looked like or been through as long as they heard about Jesus. They also opened a skatepark and after school program where most people who came weren’t Christian.
Along with all this, Adam felt called to take young people on international missions. It cost loads of cash and was a huge logistical headache every-time, but he still kept doing it. He took untraveled teenagers from Orange County to Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico City, Budapest,