Meet Grant
Hello, my name is Grant Layman and I am a pastor at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I have had the privilege of serving in that role for the past 25 years (I feel really old writing that!). I am married to the woman of my dreams, Karin (pronounced car-in), and we have 4 wonderful children - Brett (21), Brittany (19), Brielle (14), and Brian (11).
My job with Next is to help Josh run the conference by implementing the vision he has provided to see a passion for the gospel transferred to the next generation. I have served as a Community Group leader for all of the previous conferences with the exception of one, so I am very familiar with what this conference is about and absolutely love it! That is why, when Josh approached me several months ago about the possibility of coming alongside him to lead this conference, I was so eager to participate. I have the joy of serving Josh in a very similar way at Covenant Life, where he is the senior pastor, so taking on this role for Next seemed to be a good fit. It’s important for you to know that I could not have taken on this responsibility without the outstanding team of people who have come together to serve you, beginning with Paul Medler who is ‘The Man’ when it comes to putting on conferences.
On the personal side? I love being with my wife and kids, celebrating their interests, serving the members of CLC, playing and watching sports (more watching these days!), and vacationing in the white beaches of Sarasota, Florida, where I grew up.
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Grant is a hero for bringing leadership for not only dozens of Next projects but also to all us people that work on Next. Can you imagine trying to lead crazy people like me and Brian and David? Good grief. And he does it cheerfully.
And if being a pastor at Covenant Life Church for like a lifetime isn’t enough to validate Grant, he also led the community group I was in at New Attitude last year. And it was great! Thanks for serving us Grant.
Thanks for helping with Na and now with Next!
The bottom line for me is that the only way I was able to step back into leading Next is because Grant was willing to take his role. It simply wouldn’t happen without him. He does all the “heavy lifting” with Paul and the team when it comes to making Next happen. So please pray for this guy.
Same here Josh; Grant served and led us so well in taking fast hold of the word of God, didn’t he? Remember that guy who wore pink shorts that one day?