Youth Director
Denvil
Farley
I am Denvil Farley the Director of Youth, College, and Young Adult Ministries here at St. Paul’s UMC. I am married to a beautiful woman named Gwen and have no kids, but I do have a dog-named Mosa (it means grace in ‘Sesotho’ which is the language in the small African country of Lesotho.)
I was born and raised in Lakeland, FL and attended The Lakeland High School. I then moved to Tallahassee to attend the most amazing college in the world, Florida State University. I graduated with my degree in Political Science and Philosophy with a minor in Religion.
I spent five summers as a youth counselor at the Warren W. Willis United Methodist Camp in Leesburg, FL and volunteered with the youth program for 2˝ years at Trinity UMC in Tallahassee. I spent two weeks in Africa doing mission work and am planning to go back sometime soon. I would also love to go to Cuba and pretty much any other 3rd world country to do short-term missions.
I love being a part of this church and the people here. I am excited about the work that God is doing here and in this community and how God is equipping all of us to be ministers to the world for the glory of His Kingdom.
I like to play drums, fantasy sports, and Madden ’07. I am passionate about Christ’s call to love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul and to love my neighbor as myself. To me these verses define how we are to live as Christians.
My favorite passage in the Bible is: Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
email: denvilf@stpauljax.org