Please Help

Many of you noticed that we are growing. As we grow, would you consider helping us and serving along beside us? If this is your first time serving, we need help in the kitchen to feed the students at the end of the night. If you have served in that area already or just simply cooking is not for you, and would like to move to a different area, see me, because we have some other areas that are in need of some helpers that have opened up.

Renovation

We are still working upstairs to get our environment just right in order to serve the students. There's still work to be done up there with various projects to help the space function. If you are interested, please let me know.

I want to thank Jason Goforth for stepping up and volunteering to help get this off the ground. There will be ways that youth can help in working in that space. If you would like to help, please contact him and he can help you get involved in the renovation.

Personal Note to Parents:

I want to take a minute and acknowledge that students are going to start opting out and asking to not attend Sunday nights and Sunday Mornings. School has started and homework load has begun. Friends who don't make church a priority are are asking for sleepovers. It will be a challenge to see the things that your student wants to do and try to figure out which is important. Where does youth group fall on your priorities as a family? Do you want your son or daughter to have a foundation rooted in Christ and having a support system? Do you want your son or daughter to have a mentor type relationship with a trusted adult? If your answer is yes, what are you as a parent going to do in order to help ensure that happens? Sometimes we will have to tell our kids no to something they want to do and that's okay. We as leaders study youth ministry and what this generation needs, we are hearing that they need consistent interaction with fellow Christians and with mentors in order to foster a relationship with Jesus beyond youth group. The best way to build that relationship with trusted adults is through our weekly programs. They need to see the people more than just in the summer in order to build a relationship to be open to them when the hard stuff hits. Would you, as a parent like me of students in this program, prioritize your student meeting each week in order to build a foundation and to foster growth in their faith?