Creating a culture of compassion, service, evangelism, & leadership among our students.
Jesus is Why
Acceptance ≠ Attendance
Every Student Known
Youth Ministry is extremely exciting, dynamic, complex, and challenging. The reward of seeing young people transformed by the Gospel is what makes every late night, every tough conversation, and every one of our best efforts worth giving. It has been said “Adolescence is just a phase, don’t miss it” and that is what we are going to do: we are going to lean in, love big, and work to navigate one of the most challenging seasons of life with our students. The relationships that begin at youth group can last a lifetime and the impact of one leader who faithfully loves and gracefully challenges a young person to greater things by living out the Gospel can change the trajectory of a life and someone’s eternity. Youth ministry matters and you have a part to play in the story that God is weaving in the lives of our students.
Until Every Student Hears, Chris
The Eight: IMPACT Distinctives
Engaging With Students
Continually Connecting
Identify & Empower
For The City
A Little Goes a Long Way
Radically Inclusive
Walk The Walk
In it Together
My prayer is that any student who becomes a part of Impact gains these four things at the end of their time with us.
1) A relationship with God that doesn’t put Him at the top, but in the center of the student’s life, where He influences and leads them in every area.
2) An understanding of the gospel that helps them share it with simplicity.
3) A community that gives them lifelong brothers and sisters in the faith.
4) The confidence to continue leading by serving
Sunday School (9:30 a.m.)
Youth Room (on the third floor)
Sunday Nights
We gather at 5:00 in the gym for dinner, with programming following the meal until 7:30.
Wednesday Nights
From 6:00-7:00 we meet in the youth room on the 3rd floor.
We believe that any student can be IMPACT no matter their spiritual maturity.
We want IMPACT to include a balance of education, experiences, ownership and opportunities for students to take next steps in their faith.
We want students to learn to lead not through a title, but through the way they are IMPACTing others through evangelism, serving, and compassion. We want students to understand that the most effective leaders are “servant leaders.”
We want students to feel like we believed in them. We want them to understand that we believe they are capable of changing the world and ultimately furthering the Kingdom of God.
We want to . . . . .
Create a culture not a program. Create a movement not an elite club
Encourage students to think outside of themselves
Empower students to have COMPASSION, SERVE, and SHARE JESUS
Create IMPACT opportunities for students at every level of faith
Identify and encourage individual students to lead within IMPACT
Empowering individual students and our group as a whole to have an IMPACT on our church, community and globe.
Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 20:28
“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Philippians 2:3-4
“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.”
Matthew 28:19-20
“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
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