Sara Palla |
What is your role at Crossroads?
I coordinate our events, help launch new clubs, work with the regional team, and keep the books while primarily located in Orlando FL.
What is your favorite part of what you do at Crossroads?
I love connecting with people. I love that in this role I get to build connections with kids I would never otherwise meet. So I love empowering churches and working alongside them in the gap to build the bridge between the community and the church body. I want everyone to feel they matter. I want everyone to know they have a place to belong. When we can build up schools and churches, we strengthen our communities.
What are three words that people use to describe you?
Devoted, adventurous, friend-making
What’s something that makes you feel like a kid again?
Living life around kids, whether it’s my students at camp or playing nine-square or belting VeggieTales songs in the car with my middle school students. I love living life with them. And I’m always down for a Disney movie night with lots of snacks and cozy blankets.
What’s an interesting or unexpected skill or talent you possess?
I would say axe throwing, I’ve been known to hit bulls’-eyes. Or the ability to back a U-Haul into a loading dock.
What’s a book that has had an impact on you?
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver. This book encouraged me to view rest at the feet of Jesus as more productive than the loud to-do lists that appear to be more productive. Or Christian Heroes Then & Now: George Müller. I read this as a kid, and it was one of the earliest impacts for wanting to work in ministry.
What’s a favorite quote?
“I want to know more than just my mother’s faith. Cause that’s not enough to get through the rough.” —“Monday Morning Faith Song” by Chelsea Plank and SEU Worship