As much as Zach Leonard has enjoyed impacting local youth as a coach and history teacher the past couple of years, he’s going to continue touching many young lives here as a youth and associate pastor at Lamesa’s First United Methodist Church. Leonard is hanging up his coaching whistle to work full-time at the church. He has been working part-time as the youth pastor since last July. “I originally wanted to become a senior pastor, not really a youth pastor, but I could just feel God calling me in this direction,” Leonard said. “Starting out on a parttime basis helped give me the ...