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Eric D. Napoli, Youth Pastor
 Eric Napoli has been a part of Amherst Baptist Youth Ministry since 1983, when he was an elementary student in Tonawanda. He grew up at Amherst Baptist Church, which at times was as much a home to him as any other place. In 1989 Eric felt the call to ministry. In 1991 after graduating from Kenmore East High, he began to work with the youth of Amherst.
The Lord has blessed the Youth Ministry over the years. It has grown and brought fruit through missions and a variety of ministry by youth to their community. Amherst Baptist Church has a very balanced youth ministry which includes: exciting adventures, fun experiences with God, needed recreational activities throughout the year, in-reach times to churched youth, and loads of out-reach to the community and its youth. Eric's vision is to love students so that they may be established in God's grace, growing in God's word, and multiplying the ministry they are gifted in. "Xpect to the Xtreme" is not only the theme of the ministry but also the credo by which it stands. "Our expectation is in the Lord of Lords! He alone is the Rock of our Salvation!" Psalms 62:5.
Eric has a deep belief that this generation of youth and children are an important part of Amherst Baptist Church. They are right in the middle of where God is moving. Even now a new cycle of young men and women in the youth ministry are growing their hearts together and towards Christ and are setting out to forge a newly focused mission. We are willing to go wherever God would have us to go. Several youth have been baptized in the past year and are beginning to sense that possibly God is drawing them into a greater life with Him.
Eric was licensed to the Gospel Ministry July 6th, 1997, and ordained November 19, 2000. He is husband to the lovely Kathryn and enjoys being father to 3 wonderful girls, Olivia, Anna Rose and Nicoletta and his 2 year old son, Samuel.
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