This sermon was preached at All Saints' Chapel, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, CA on Wednesday, November 14. The texts for this sermon are: Titus 3:1-7 , Psalm 91:9-16 , and Luke 17:11-19 . A couple of weeks ago, I attended my Diocesan Convention back in Massachusetts. A group of high school students who make up the Diocesan Youth Council gave a heartfelt presentation about the twenty years of their organization and what it has meant for youth voices to be heard and taken seriously on the Convention floor. At the end of the presentation, three young adults in their twenties and thirties—Diocesan Youth Council graduates—got up. They presented results from a survey of their peers, other DYC alumni. Even though the young adults who responded to the survey overwhelming report that DYC had played a significant role in developing their sense of identity, their leadership qualities, made them who they were today--just a minority of these highly involved youth came ba