A lot has happened since I joined Generation LINK staff at Crosspoint in August, and it's been great to see God working even in these past 2 months. I am one of 3 G-Linkers working specifically with 6th - 12th grade students under our Student Minister, Josh Jones. I've had the privilege of serving with this ministry for the past 2 years as a small group leader and a SummerLINKer for 2 summers, and now, I am in this new position of leading these students, specifically middle schoolers, in a greater capacity than when I was only a small group leader for some of the middle school guys, and God is continually sanctifying me and helping me grow as a teacher, mentor, and leader.
We kicked off the school year with our weekly Sunday night meeting that we call "Awaken." This is more of a large-group teaching time in which we worship together, and then usually split into middle school and high school to have our lesson in order to tailor the message to the students' age. I am one of the teachers for middle school, along with a few other leaders, and I've seen a lot of these students really get involved in the discussion questions and dive deeper than I thought was possible for that age group. We're going through a new curriculum called "The Gospel Project" which is basically going over the Bible as a whole and showing how it all points towards Christ and the Gospel. We want the students to see God's Word as a meta-narrative - 1 book instead of 66 separate books, and how it all fits together, has authority, meaning, and purpose. Please pray that the students would continue to be more and more receptive to the teaching and that they would continue growing spiritually.
We've also been meeting on Wednesday nights which we call "Equip." We meet in host homes - high school at one house and middle school at another, and the format is based more on small groups and Bible study in a more casual atmosphere. The high schoolers are going through the sermons that we hear on Sundays and dissecting the Scripture further and discussing application of it to their lives. The middle schoolers are studying "The Life" which is a study of who God is. It's been good to give them this basic foundation of our faith and to help them learn more about topics such as the Trinity, why Jesus had to die, how we have the Holy Spirit, etc. Discussion has been great, and I pray that it will continue to get even better.
We also took a trip on Labor Day this year to go tubing down a river in Helen, GA. This was a great time of fellowship for our whole youth group, and also was great for our 6th graders to get to know other students in the group since this was one of their first opportunities to go on a trip with the student ministry, and they had not been with us very long.
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We kicked off the school year with our weekly Sunday night meeting that we call "Awaken." This is more of a large-group teaching time in which we worship together, and then usually split into middle school and high school to have our lesson in order to tailor the message to the students' age. I am one of the teachers for middle school, along with a few other leaders, and I've seen a lot of these students really get involved in the discussion questions and dive deeper than I thought was possible for that age group. We're going through a new curriculum called "The Gospel Project" which is basically going over the Bible as a whole and showing how it all points towards Christ and the Gospel. We want the students to see God's Word as a meta-narrative - 1 book instead of 66 separate books, and how it all fits together, has authority, meaning, and purpose. Please pray that the students would continue to be more and more receptive to the teaching and that they would continue growing spiritually.
We've also been meeting on Wednesday nights which we call "Equip." We meet in host homes - high school at one house and middle school at another, and the format is based more on small groups and Bible study in a more casual atmosphere. The high schoolers are going through the sermons that we hear on Sundays and dissecting the Scripture further and discussing application of it to their lives. The middle schoolers are studying "The Life" which is a study of who God is. It's been good to give them this basic foundation of our faith and to help them learn more about topics such as the Trinity, why Jesus had to die, how we have the Holy Spirit, etc. Discussion has been great, and I pray that it will continue to get even better.
We also took a trip on Labor Day this year to go tubing down a river in Helen, GA. This was a great time of fellowship for our whole youth group, and also was great for our 6th graders to get to know other students in the group since this was one of their first opportunities to go on a trip with the student ministry, and they had not been with us very long.
Also, we are about to go on our annual Student Ministry Fall Retreat to Camp McCall in Sunset, SC. We have more than 50 students and leaders going, and it will be a great time of worship and teaching under our guest speaker, Tracy Turner. He is teaching off of the theme of the weekend, "SIMPLE."
The theme is designed to show that the command God gives us to make disciples is simple; it's just a matter of obedience. Other topics will also be discussed and the Gospel will be preached. We put a lot of finishing touches on the planning of the weekend today, and we are all pumped for this weekend and praying that our students take this weekend seriously and seek after God.
Please pray for this weekend and our students - that God would take hold of their hearts and that they would truly be His disciples and find their identity in Him alone.
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