35th ANNUAL
PRAYER
BREAKFAST

BE THE LIGHT

35th Annual Prayer Breakfast
Saturday, October 3rd

JOIN US

A morning of live music, shared faith and prayers, and a mission to benefit the Y’s Chaplain Services program.

DONATION

$700/per table of 8

$100 Individual Ticket

WHEN

Saturday, Oct. 3rd

BREAKFAST 7:45 am – 8:20 am

PROGRAM begins promptly at 8:30 am

WHERE

Crescenta-Cañada YMCA

1930 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge

Upper parking lot (Outdoors & Shaded)

RESERVE YOUR SEAT

2026 Keynote Speaker

Dave Avramovich

Dave Avramovich serves as the Regional Director for Young Life Los Angeles. Dave moved to the Los Angeles area from Tacoma, WA in 2003 to attend Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA) where he graduated with an M.Div in 2007.

An incarnational ministry leader, Dave has been on Young Life staff for nearly two decades. Dave served as the area director of Greater Pasadena Young Life for 11+ years before becoming the regional director of Los Angeles in 2017. At that time, Greater Pasadena Young Life had the largest Young Life in California involving 17 school clubs. Beyond his current RD role, Dave currently leads on the La Cañada Young Life team.

Prior to Young Life, Dave served at Glenkirk Church - in Glendora - as the Pastoral Assistant to high school ministries and was the preaching pastor at Iglesia de la Comunidad in Highland Park. He has been certified ready for call in the PC(USA) but has yet to take an ordained role in a church.

Dave is also the head football coach at La Cañada HS where he has helped rebuild the football program over the last five seasons, making the playoffs the last two years with an overall record of (34-20).

Dave is married to Marisa and has two daughters Katie (14) & Ella (11). He enjoys his family, laughing, being with other people, all things sports, eating food, listening to music, reading, theology, politics, & Broadway.

2026 Event Emcee

Reverend Dr. Ross Purdy

Ross Purdy is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton (B.A. Religious Studies), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Stirling, Scotland (Ph.D. History). He has been married to his wife Kathryn for 34 years and together they have three children: Kate (31 years), Heather (28 years), and Jacob (25 years). In August of this past year, Ross and Kathy became grandparents when Kate and her husband Corey gave birth to a daughter named Ryn (short for Kathryn).

After graduating from seminary, Ross served as a pastor at the Lake Arrowhead Community Presbyterian Church in Lake Arrowhead, CA (1995-2001), then as the Senior Pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Burbank (2001-2023). In early 2023, Ross was called to be the Senior Pastor at the La Canada Presbyterian Church.

I was born in a small town called Carthage, New York. Within a year, my parents moved to Niagara Falls, New York, with my sister. Those years were very influential in forming my understanding of God. We lived close enough to the Falls and I could hear the roar of the water from my bedroom window at night. Having seen the swirling water cascading over the rocky cliffs, then crashing down to form whirlpools, I always had a fear of the Falls' power. Sometimes I had nightmares about being caught in the tide and almost drowning. At 5 years of age, while standing above the falls, a thought struck me so powerfully that it changed my life. 'God, you created this. If you made this tremendous power, then you are greater than it. If you are greater than it, and you love me as I have been told, then I have nothing to fear at all.' From that day onward, I have had the firm conviction that God's power is so great, that nothing can harm us apart from His will. Added to the messages I heard from my parents, friends, and church about God's love, I have found this combination (God's greatness and love) to be an enormous key to living a successful and meaningful life.