Master's Academy Youth Camp

Zac Lambrecht knows what it’s like to feel like the odd one out. By his final year of middle school, he had already lived in seven cities and four different states. He weighed 90 pounds, hadn’t hit puberty, and didn’t meet the weight requirement to join the football team at his new school. With the wrong clothes, the wrong accent, and no friends, Zac hit rock bottom—and then made a decision that changed everything: he took responsibility for his life and created a plan for the future. 

Over the next four years, Zac experienced firsthand the power of intentionality, resilience, and reaching outside of your comfort zone. He got involved in everything from student government and theater to athletics and service leadership. By senior year, he was homecoming king, prom king, athlete of the year, and a state champion. 
After earning a leadership scholarship to his dream university, Zac began a lifelong journey of mentoring and empowering students. From youth ministries and teen centers to cross country speaking engagements and coaching state championship programs, Zac has spent the last two decades pouring into young people. He’s led thriving student ministries, built life changing programs in schools, and helped countless students develop leadership, purpose, and grit. 

Today, Zac lives in Mobile, Alabama with his wife and twin sons. He is the founder of Coaching Young Men and runs a life coaching practice designed to equip the next generation with vision, values, and actionable strategies for life. After 20+ years of leadership, coaching, and education, Zac continues to walk alongside students and families with the same belief that shaped his story: your beginning doesn’t have to define your ending. 

In 2002, Gene Hendrix was building a successful tree-cutting business when a life-altering fall from 50 feet changed everything. Doctors didn’t expect him to survive. First responders thought he was gone. But Gene kept breathing, kept fighting, and eventually—kept writing.

After falling headfirst and suffering a broken neck and a severed spinal cord, Gene spent three weeks in a coma at the University of South Alabama’s trauma center and five more weeks in rehab. Just eight weeks after his fall, he was back in his truck—defying every odd.

Gene says that the day he fell out of that tree, he fell into a notebook. With limited use of his arms but a renewed purpose, he began writing with the fire of a man who had been given a second chance. Today, he writes and speaks boldly of the God who sustained him.

“These minor missives are a complete gift of God. He obviously had more to say to me than I could hear from the top of a tree, so He politely sat me down… My business is to abide in Him and produce much fruit.” 
Gene will speak to our students about faith—the kind that endures when everything else falls away. His story is a powerful reminder that even in life’s darkest valleys, God is not finished writing.