Youth: What We Do

You can expect to be cared for and loved on by your DG and its leaders. We want to create a space where two things happen:

• You can be open and honest about who you are and what you are going through. Come as you are and meet people where they are.
  
  
• You can encourage and love on others. Not only do we want your to be cared for but for you to also care for others.
  
  

After a lot of praying and reading, we've decided to take this route and try to do this discipleship group thing. We actually did a lot of analyzing about where our youth have been and what were the results and we noticed that there were two major holes in our youth program:

• Our current youth model wasn't the most effective on Sunday mornings. We've noticed students come in and out of our doors without anyone really knowing and following up on them. Our current Sunday School program was geared towards our members who were Christian and it provided theology in a lecture model. Don't get us wrong, it was awesome...but we were missing a lot of students where they were at.
  
  
• We saw many of our students needed to be cared for and loved on. Unless students took the extra initiative, many of them didn't have people who invested in their lives and our leadership personnel didn't have enough help to cover all our youth.
  
  

Our hope is that every student that is a part of our youth group is covered by both our adult leaders and youth members. We want to make it impossible for youth to merely be attendees and just be anonymous. We pray that there becomes this multi-generational discipleship that occurs and we have youth mentoring youth and adults working together with students from all grades. We pray that our students are honest with their struggles, bold in their faith and passionate in their pursuit of Jesus.