Patrice Kern

Administrative Director

Joined YFC staff: August 1998

Home Church: Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle

Education: Graduate of Christ for the Nations School of Youth Ministry – May 1998

Why do you want to work for YFC?
I work at Long Island YFC because I strongly believe in the mission of Youth for Christ.

Favorite Bible Passage:

Philippians 3:7-16
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.  12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

Favorite Quote:
“He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain that which he can not lose. – Jim Elliot

My Favorite Books:
The Lord of the Rings series and The Narnia Chronicles

My Favorite Food
Mexican Food! Italian is almost even with Mexican but not quite!

Mac or PC:  I’m a PC – Deal with it!

Next new place I want to visit:
Anywhere that I haven’t already been…I love to travel and explore places I’ve never visited before…my motto is why go somewhere you’ve already been when there are new adventures awaiting you in the wonderful world God has created!