The question is – how do we help our youth understand the mission of God?
Here’s one approach.
Of course, youth group evenings are important.
Worship, prayer, Scripture, and conversations about how to follow God.
What it means to go beyond the right answers to being formed in the ways of Jesus.
There’s a spirit of acceptance and love and youth know that they belong.
The youth leaders at Ministik Community Church, a small rural church near Edmonton, AB, are sure to focus on these ways of helping their youth understand the mission of God.
Ministik Community Church is also intentional about including their youth as part of the church body, making sure they know that they belong to the bigger church community.
Like their Christmas in the Country event that they host every Christmas.
A live nativity, lunch, Christmas crafts – it’s a big event and youth work alongside adults as they welcome their friends and neighbours.
Or the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser for the Mustard Seed.
Together, youth and adults and children walk together to raise money for the hungry, homeless, and hurting in Edmonton.
Sometimes it’s working together and helping someone out.
Recently a bunch of them provided unskilled labour for a basement renovation due to a flood or yard work for someone going through cancer.
It’s loving well the household of faith.
By purposefully including their youth as part of the community of faith, they are teaching and modelling the mission of God.