Youth

**All Youth Downloads are located at the bottom of this page.**

Youth Opportunities for Involvement:

Sunday School
Our Sunday school classes are divided into junior high girls (6th-8th grade), junior high boys (6th-8th grades), 9th and 10th grade combined, and 11th and 12th grade combined. The curriculum we use is a seven year plan that helps the students build a biblical foundation. Sunday school meets at 9:00 am.

Sunday Serve
Immediately following Sunday school, our teens are serving in various ministries throughout the church. Whether they are helping with the children’s Sunday worship program, keeping the nursery, greeting visitors as they come in, ministering to one of our shut-ins, or other numerous areas of service, they are exercising their spiritual gifts and gaining valuable experience. Because we want to purposefully invest in the next generation, we want our students to learn about commitment, teamwork, responsibility, and the joy that comes from using the gifts that God has given the believer to edify and serve the body of Christ.

Sunday Night Worship
Beginning at 5:30, our Sunday nights are devoted to connecting our teens to God through a dynamic worship service, challenging them with a message from the Scripture, and providing them with an atmosphere of Christian fun and fellowship. We want our Sunday nights to be a safe haven and place of refuge for our teens to come and have fun together, be encouraged, and receive tools that they can use to go out and live a solid Christian life in their schools and communities.

Wednesday nights
Each Wednesday night is a time of prayer and Bible study in the youth room. Beginning at 6:30, this service is a time when we meet together and pray, and engage in an in-depth, verse-by-verse study of God’s Word. This night is intended to increase our student’s understanding of the importance of God’s Word in their lives and its relevance for keeping them holy in an unholy world.

Camp
In the summer, we provide the teens an opportunity to attend a Christian camp, It is an important week in our ministry that sets the tone for the summer and early fall. The goal of camp is to get them away from their normal life and focus them on Christ. Many salvation, ministry, and life-changing decisions have resulted from a week of camp.

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Missions
Our goal for missions is to offer our teens as many opportunities as possible to serve. We believe it is essential to get them out of their comfort zones and invest themselves in the lives of others, plus we want them to get as early a start as possible when it comes to fulfilling the Great Commission. We take a mission trip every summer, alternating international and domestic trips. We also have a Home Mission Week in the summer where we focus on local ministries and evangelism.

Middle School Youth Mission Trip to Charleston, WVV
August 1-6, 2011
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High School Youth Mission Trip to Bogota, Colombia
July 14-21, 2011
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