We are excited to start the new school year. Here is a blurb about what has already happened and what is still in store for this month.
We kicked things off last week and both groups (Fusion and Outlet) met. There was great excitement in the air as our students and leaders returned.
At Fusion, I introduced our new series called “The Complete Youth Group”. We will be looking at the early church in the books of Acts and have broken down their approach to a 4-fold focus. It was all about the story of God and we are striving this year to focus on that with our High school students. Here are the 4 main areas we hope to model our year around:
1) Teaching/Sharing- communicating the Story of God
2) Community- being and living the story of God
3) Worship- celebrating the story of God
4) Service and Justice- doing the story of God
Each week we will look in depth into these areas, spend time in God’s word learning together, and being in community in small groups and sharing how we can make practical applications to what we learn. We are also beginning some new teams: Creative Arts Team and a Youth Mission Team. These teams will help more students take an active role in shaping our future, as well as planning current activities and events and helping transform what we do (action) and who we are (identity)as a group.
Just last night, my wife and I hosted a Senior Cookout. We have 15 Seniors at BCC this year, and 10 were able to come out for the cookout. It was great time to connect, laugh, share, and eat together as we dream about what this year can look like for this group of Seniors. I always place a great deal of ownership of our youth group with the Seniors and help them realize their potential. All of the younger students look up to them and learn from them each year, and so my role is to help them nourish their souls and developed spiritually this year. We also want our church to be a place to help educated, train, and prepare them for the realities of college life once they leave our presence.
Our High school group is also beginning a new series for our Sunday morning time of Student education. We have begun “Reverb”; Living out the Mission of God. The entire year is divided into 6-week mini series to help keep things fresh and interesting. The fall we are looking into the section called “Drive”, which helps us understand our role in partnering with God to see his dreams for the world come true.
Going back to our 4-fold focus, we hope that each week all four elements of church will be on display in what we do. From games, food, lessons, small group time, community service, etc.. we intend to demonstrate what a complete youth ministry looks like. And each month we hope to offer additional activities that focus specifically on a particular aspect such as a Community service work day, worship concert, bible study, or hang out time.
God desires to transform His people into a community that impacts the word- to bring God’s blessings and healing to others. That is what we want to be about here at BCC, and especially at Fusion.
I am sure that Pelly will be sharing about his vision and dreams for Outlet this fall. We are very blessed to have his presence and leadership here at BCC and Pelly will be taking over the weekly leadership and teaching tasks at Outlet.
Thanks for reading everyone! -Dan Haugh, Pastor of Student Ministries
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