The TrailBlazers Team

Sarkis Hajian (Youth Pastor)

I've been involved with TrailBlazers for over a decade now.

I started off with the youth group as a crazy teenager. While I may not be a teenager any longer, some might argue that I still am "crazy."

After a few years I became a youth group helper. Megan Polowski was leading the youth group during this time, and taught me a lot of what it meant to be a youth leader. I took on a leadership role with the youth group when she was called to serve elsewhere In 2011.

It has been a pleasure serving with TrailBlazers. It is my prayer that God would reveal Himself to every youth that attends and that they would get to know Him better!
A little background: I was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. After graduating high school I went to college and eventually completed my Bachelor of Social Work degree. I hope to eventually get a Master degree in either Social Work or in some form of ministry, but for right now I'm focusing on working and doing the best where I believe God has put me.

I enjoy fishing, hunting, hiking, and any other adventures the Yukon offers. Sometimes I enjoy editing videos or building computer games (which I hope to one day publish). 

That's a little bit about me!

​​​Nora

Nora, Sark's long-suffering older sister, is an aficionado of literature, language, literacy and librarianship. When she's not helping people find the answers to their questions on the public library's reference desk, hiking outdoors, learning Swahili, writing stories or teaching adult learners to read, she helps Sark wrangle adults-in-training at the Church of the Nazarene youth group. Her main contributions to the program are 'let's play a board game', 'everyone upstairs' and 'no roughhousing!'. She thinks everyone should read Lord of the Rings, the Jungle Book and Mere Christianity (after the Bible, of course).

Nora is also planning to move to Tanzania next July in order to help develop dictionaries for minority language groups (that are also working on quality bible translations). Hence the Swahili lessons. Hujambo yako! She plans to take her vacations somewhere very, very cold.