Juvenile Justice Ministries Network of Texas
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WELDON FOX, Treasurer, North Texas Representative
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![]() Weldon says, "Working with youth has been a privilege in my life beginning with Cub Scouts while I was a Boy Scout." His commitment to the youth of America has led him into volunteer leadership roles with youth as a sponsor, organizer, coordinator and director of church and community projects serving in some roles for more than a quarter of a century. Weldon's love for youth motivated him to serve as coach and organizer of young men's soccer teams, as leader of boys' mission program for Baptist churches for 30 years; as director of Jr. High Sunday evening Training Union; as companion for teenage boys on mission trips in Texas and other states to assist building new churches, a cabin on a Christian Ranch in Alaska, and dormitories in Mexico, as a sponsor for Junior High and High School Church Choirs for more than 30 years accompanying them on several over-seas tours, as coordinator for church volunteer programs to work on church missionary homes, facilities and lodges, counselor at Leadership Training Camps and weekend campouts, as accompanying sponsor for youth volunteering with World Changers and Texas Challenge to assist with home repairs for less fortunate families and as mentor by mail with incarcerated youth throughout Texas. For the past 10 years Weldon has served as part-time and then full time volunteer coordinator for the Prison, Jail and Juvenile criminal justice ministries, First Baptist, Dallas. Among his many responsibilities in this role he has coordinated 35 Restorative Justice Ministry Awareness Conferences and two Juvenile Justice Ministry Conferences in the past 38 months. He is the Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of the Juvenile Justice Ministries Network of Texas. |