Fall Youth Ministry Opportunity
We just wanted to to remind all of you of a great opportunity to minister to the FPC youth this coming fall. The youth staff is seeking 18 young adults who are willing to disciple one or a few youth boys or girls. This will be a great opportunity to serve at the local church and a great opportunity for your own personal spiritual growth and edification.
Here are a few things to consider when praying/ deciding about this opportunity:
1. The time commitment will be minimal (1-2 hours a week tops)
2. You do not have to be a budding theologian to do this! Each volunteer will be paired with someone from the youth staff who will provide the volunteer with teaching material. You will have every opportunity to discuss the material with a staff member regarding the best way to teach, apply, and communicate the material. We will not throw you to the sharks!
3. Do not be intimidated by the words disciple or teach. Just think of how unprepared the disciples where when Jesus gave the command in Matt. 28:19-20 to "make disciples of all the nations...teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you...". Do not buy into the common misconception that in order to disciple someone you have to 'have it all together' first and then you will be ready to disciple.
If that were the case, then nobody would ever be ready to disciple! If you are a believer who has embraced the one true gospel and have a desire for others to embrace it as well, then you are an able candidate for this!
4. The personal rewards will be exponential. This is an opportunity for you to grow in the faith as much as it is to facilitate the growth of another soul. For many this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone. For others this will simply mean exercising the talents to lead or teach that the Lord has given you.
Whatever the case is, the spiritual benefits that you will reap from this opportunity will be exponential.
Please think and pray about this opportunity. If you have any questions or doubts, please feel free to contact us.
God's Glory, God's Church: A Study of Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
Teachers: Steve Smith & Brad Mills
This summer where are going to be looking at Paul's epistle to the Ephesians. For 12 weeks we are going to camp out, so to speak, in this theologically rich and highly practical letter of Paul.
Though the book is a mere 6 chapters, it contains some of the most treasured words and concepts in our Christian vocabulary. Join us in Pathways Sunday school class as we think about this great letter together.
This week's lesson: Eph. 2:1-10."2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
