Complex sentence: In 1938, Jim Rayburn, a young Presbyterian youth leader and seminary student in Gainesville, Texas, was asked by a local minister to consider the neighborhood high school as his parish and develop ways of contacting kids who had no interest in church.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1938, Jim Rayburn, a young Presbyterian youth leader and seminary student in Gainesville, Texas, was given a challenge. A local minister invited him to consider the neighborhood high school as his parish and develop ways of contacting kids who had no interest in church.