Presbytery Youth Council
2025-26 PYC Nominations
We are now accepting nominations for the 2025-2026 Council! For more information, download PYC 2025-2026 Application (2). Nominations are due Monday, May 5 and must include:
- The Nomination/Session Endorsement for and the Youth/Parent Signature page (both included in the above PDF).
- This form of short answer/essay questions, completed by the youth being nominated.
Contact Lindsay Hall with any questions.
2025 PYC Retreat – Burning Questions
February 7-9, 2025
Youth currently in grades 6-12 are welcome to join us at Camp Hopewell for a weekend exploring who God is, where we find God, and what that means for our lives.
For a retreat schedule, click here > Tentative2025 PYC Retreat Schedule
If you run into questions or issues with the registration platform, please contact Camp Hopewell Registrar Elissa Rayburn. With questions about retreat content and programming, contact Lindsay Hall.
Retreat Leadership
Keynoter
Lauren Hood is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, SC where she majored in Religion and Education with a focus in special education. She currently serves as the Director of High School and College Ministries at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX. She is also attending Union Presbyterian Seminary in pursuit of MDiv and MACE degrees. In her free time, you will find her at a local coffee shop, watch University of South Carolina football or women’s basketball, spoiling her nephews, or yapping with friends about pop music! She is SO excited to be with you all and back in Mississippi!
Music Leaders
This year we’re excited to have music led by our own PYC member Ann Luckett Montgomery and First Presbyterian (Oxford) pastor Rev. Barrett Milner.
2024-2025 Presbytery Youth Council
Alaina Masterson (Batesville)
Ann Luckett Montgomery (First Oxford)
Annelise Fagan (First Tupelo)
Ben Schuster (First Greenville)
Cella Montgomery (Batesville)
Ella Michael Gable (First Tupelo)
Joey McDuffie (First Tupelo)
Mack Walker (Leland)
Mary Wright England (First Greenville)
Perrin Weathers (First Greenville)
Will Schuster (First Greenville)
The mission of the Presbytery Youth Council (PYC) is to:
- Plan, promote, and lead programs which will meet identified needs of youth, youth leaders, and their churches.
- Promote and coordinate youth programs sponsored by the Presbytery of St. Andrew, Synod of Living Waters, and General Assembly.
- Provide a forum through which youth can express their faith concerns and needs to the Presbytery
- Empower youth for faithful Christian witness to their peers and others.
- Provide a network of youth and youth leaders through whom information for and about youth can be distributed.
- Provide leadership development for youth council members and advisors