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The future of ministry is in the hands of our teenagers and it is
our responsibility to foster growth in their spiritual walk with the
Lord. One way that we fulfill this responsibility at my church, is
through our student ministry. Teenagers experience fellowship with
other believers their age and take part in cool exciting activities
that makes parents wonder, "what crazy-head thought of
that?!" While getting true discipleship and taking part in
bringing the nations into a relationship with Jesus Christ through
evangelism and outreach projects. Our teenagers have a chance
to make a difference in this world for the Kingdom of God and realize
the priceless worth of a real relationship with Jesus.
Doug Fields writes, “youth ministry is about adults loving
students, building relationships with them, and pointing them to
Jesus”. In our student ministry we imagine how God wants
these students to be when they graduate from high school, and we
spend the time between sixth grade and twelfth grade trying our best
to disciple them into that man or woman of God. We do this
through building relationships with the students and mentoring with
our own lives. The students know that we aren’t perfect
and we do make mistakes, but we love Jesus and we seek to honor Him
through our lives. We seek to be real with students and
encourage them to be bold for Jesus. Paul wrote to Timothy,
“Let no one look down on you because you are young, but rather
in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example
of those who believe” (1 Timothy 4:12); and this is what we
teach our kids—how to flesh out this verse with their lives.
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