Student Ministry???

What Is Student Ministry?

Student Ministry =

Student -  For our group, it is adolescents grades 6th – 12th.

Ministry – literally means to serve or to meet the needs of others.

So Student Ministry is…

1. Serving or meeting the needs of Students (teenagers… your teen).
2. Students (teens) meeting the needs of those around them.

We are created for ministry…

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.   Ephesians 2:10

We are SAVED for ministry…

who has saved us and
called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but
because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ
Jesus before the beginning of time,  2 Timothy 1:9

We have been chosen for ministry…

But you are
a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging
to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.  1 Peter 2:9-10

*Too often we confuse teens with being the future, the future leaders, the future Church.  Truth be told many teens are leaders.  Those who know Christ are the Church.  God has used and continues to use teenagers to be the movers and shakers of His Bride… The Church.

Announcements are boing and disruptive!

Announcements have always been awkward, boring, and disruptive to our student ministry worship services. However, I do believe they are necessary to communicate “what’s happening” in the life of the student ministry and the Church.  I felt like every single week, no matter who delivered the announcements, students tuned out and started talking amongst themselves.  So we created “what’s happening” as a fun, entertaining way to deliver our weekly announcements.

Here’s an example of what we do:

It’s short, sweet, and to the point.

What are some creative ways that your ministry does or has done announcements?

Christmas @ Church by the Glades

Christmas Services  CBG

Join us as we celebrate the REAL reason for the season. We will have 11 exciting Christmas services:

Thursday, December 17th @ 7pm
Saturday, December 19th @ 5 & 6:30pm**
Sunday, December 20th @ 8:30*, 9:45, 11:15**, 12:45 & 6pm
Thursday, December 24th @ 4, 5:30 & 7pm

Infant to Pre-K care will be available for all services
KidStuf, a K-5 worship service, will be available at all services (except 12/17 @ 7pm)
* Denotes our “traditional” service.  All other services will be the same style.
** Traducción disponible al español

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We believe that Church by the Glades is the PERFECT church for IMPERFECT people…