Our Mission & Vision for Students and Families

Kingdom’s Student ministry exists to lock arm and arm with the family and local church body to help parents “Train their children in the way they should go.” To be a support and encouragement to parents as they fulfill Deuteronomy 6:4-9, “Here O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength. These words which I am commanding you today are to be on your hearts. Teach them diligently to your sons; talk of them when you sit in your houses and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. They are to be bound as signs on your hands and frontlets on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.”

Meet Our Team

Our leadership team recognizes the authority of God, and realizes that we are shepherds who serve under the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We desire to devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. Our passion and goal is to equip and move our students toward spiritual maturity for the work of the ministry.

James Sabin

Family & Youth Pastor

James Sabin was born in NYC and lived there for two years before his family moved to NJ, where he grew up. He attended and graduated from WVU with a BS and an MS in Physical Education/Teacher Education where he graduated with honors and won the PETE “Student Teacher of the Year” award. While attending WVU, he wrestled and played soccer for the Mountaineers. After graduate school he obtained a position at Covenant Christian School as a teacher where he still teaches Bible part time. In the summer of 2000, he helped launch the Preston Sports Camp, which gives youth diverse sport experiences with an emphasis on character development. In 2011 he developed a similar sports camp at Covenant EMC. At the end of 2001, he became the Senior Pastor of Victory EMC where he ministered for 8 years before joining the ministry team here at Kingdom. He is an ordained elder in the EMC and has over 20 years of hands-on-experience with youth and is a contributing author for Download Youth Ministry (DYM). He has a passion for God, his wife, Tonya, and sons, Jacob and Rylan. He enjoys playing golf with his sons, friends, and anyone who is willing to ride in a golf cart with him.