Meet the Raising The Next Gen Team
Global Voices, Shared Purpose
Our team is made up of passionate leaders, educators, and parents from around the world, all united by a common goal: to empower families in raising the next generation with confidence and purpose. Through diverse perspectives and shared experiences, we bring together the best insights and resources to support parents and caregivers in their journey.
Advisory Board
Angie: Executive Director
Pastor Angie Larson is a proud mom of four, a wife to Ryan, and an advocate for all people. She’s experienced all kinds of parenting challenges in her 28 years of motherhood. Angie became a mother when she was 19 years old. Her parenting journey has included single motherhood, divorced parenting, infertility, and raising kids in a blended household. It’s brought deep challenges, profound joy, and hilarious stories. Angie received her Master’s in Child, Youth, and Family Ministry before returning to school to receive her Masters of Divinity. Her passionate preaching connects the gospel to real life with all its questions, complications, and curiosities. She leads with authenticity, humor, and grace. Angie serves at Calvary Church in Alexandria, MN.
Adrian: Program Director
Adrian Walter serves as the Program Director of Next Gen Ministries at Calvary Church in Alexandria, MN. With over 25 years working with kids, students, and parents, he’s passionate about helping the next generation grow in faith and is currently developing a new ministry for parents and caregivers alongside Pastor Angie. Adrian is a proud husband to Linda, a special education teacher, and a dad to two sons. Luke, a senior studying elementary education with a math endorsement, and Adam, who’s pursuing aviation mechanics. Their home is full of energy thanks to their two dogs, Rey, the mini-goldendoodle, and Yoshi, the mini-eskipoo. Adrian’s known for his love of nerdy board games, his fantasy football dynasty (six-time champ!), and his devotion to the Vikings, Twins, and Hawkeyes. A diehard Star Wars fan, Adrian will passionately defend the original trilogy any day. He finds joy in binge-watching Ted Lasso and The Office, and dreams of vacationing in Norway, and he’s a proud Swiftie who could live off orange chicken forever.
Rebecca Jacobson - Executive Director at Youth Ministry Consultants
Rebecca Jacobson is the Executive Director at Youth Ministry Consultants, an organization dedicated to equipping the local church for effective ministry. She is also the co-founder of Small Youth Ministry, an online resource full of completely free tools crafted and curated specifically for small church leaders. Rebecca is passionate about seeing all congregations - large and small - supported in ways that maximize their impact when it comes to sharing Jesus with the next generation. She and her husband live in Denver, Colorado with their three spicy kids.
Maddie Gorman - Program Director at Orange
Maddie is a young professional in Atlanta, GA who is passionate about supporting the people who are serving and leading the next generation. After graduating from Lee University, Maddie began working on the Orange team in 2021 to help continue the work of Parent Cue, a division of Orange that exists to help parents who are raising kids at all different ages. In addition to helping create resources and content for parents, Maddie loves helping churches evaluate and understand new ways of serving and engaging parents to minister to and care for parents in diverse communities. When she's not at work, you can find Maddie either traveling all around the world or at a local bakery with a cup of tea and a fresh croissant.
Dave Adamson - Director of Youversion Australia
After nearly a decade as a TV reporter in Australia, Dave Adamson, known to most as Aussie Dave, moved to the U.S. in 2008 to lead online communities at two of Outreach Magazine’s largest North American churches. In 2013, he became the social media and online pastor at Andy Stanley’s North Point Ministries in Atlanta, where he led live-streamed services reaching 70,000 weekly and over a million monthly on-demand viewers. In 2020, Dave and his family returned to Australia to help churches and ministries worldwide develop online and on-site strategies. He now works with the YouVersion Bible App, leading a local team on a mission to help more Australians engage with God’s Word daily. Dave is the best-selling author of 52 Hebrew Words Every Christian Should Know, 52 Names of God in Hebrew, and MetaChurch. He speaks at global conferences and leads an online ministry reaching over a million people monthly across multiple platforms.