One of the most important things that we do as a youth group happens every Wednesday night. Each week we meet together to spend time singing praise to God, hearing from his word, and spending time together in prayer. I cannot think of three more important things for God's people to do on a regular basis. Tonight we will consider the importance of the word of God in our lives; God gave us his word for an important purpose and it is important that we make sure spending time in it is a part of our daily lives.
In order to help encourage one another in spending time in God's word this summer Pastor Ryan has come up with the Summer Bible Challenge. Pastor Ryan is challenging the teens (and college students) to read through the entire New Testament during summer break. This amounts to only about 2 to 4 chapters a day which should take about 20 minutes. If you already have a bible reading plan that you are working through I would encourage you to keep up with that, but if you do not I hope that you will take the challenge!
Also, over the next couple of weeks we hope to hear from some of our returning college students. Many of our previous youth group members have been off at bible college preparing to serve God in many different capacities. College is an incredibly important time where God does a lot of work in the lives of his children. We hope to hear testimonies about what God is doing in the lives of many of these students as this can be a great encouragement to all of us. We also plan on hearing from some of the young men preparing for pastoral ministry as they challenge us from God's word.
So make sure to join us each week for prayer and Bible study and see what God will do!
3 comments:
Pastor Ryan,
i just wanted to thank you for setting this up for us!it's really cool!!
i really enjoy your Bible study on Wednesday night too!!
thanks again!
Kelsie,
I am glad you like the web-site. I hope to be able to start putting more stuff on it during the summer months.
I am also glad you are enjoying the Bible study on Wednesday nights. It is an encouragement to see you and your sister there every week. Wednesday night Bible study and prayer is an important time for all of us to get our spiritual "batteries" recharged during the week. Thanks for coming out. Keep it up!
Pastor Ryan, Thanks for the message you gave in Sunday School yesterday, the 18th. It really hit me that the result of my salvation should ultimately be to worship the Lord and glorify Him for what He's done for me. That's also the reason we as Christians should share our testimony with unsaved friends and family, so they can see a difference in our lives.
I also really liked the 1-100 game posted on the website. There was one time when we went around two times rolling the dice and nobody got to write anything because someone else kept taking the pen!!! What fun! I also enjoyed the college/career fellowship last night. It's great to be able to visit with people my age who are going through some of the same trials and getting their biblical advice and their prayers.
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