For youth aged 6th-12th grade!
LCStudents exists to partner with families and engage teenagers to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ to transform the world. Using the model of Reach Grow Serve, our student ministry seeks to accomplish this through fostering belonging with God and one another (REACH), becoming disciples of the way of Jesus (GROW) and providing opportunities to live out what they believe (SERVE).
PROGRAMMING
Sunday Mornings - Students are encouraged to attend one of our worship services with their families, friends, or small group leaders. We believe young people hold onto their faith through connections to the larger church community. Students are encouraged to find weekly opportunities to SERVE with our hospitality, sound and technology, and children’s ministry teams.
Sunday Evenings - LCStudents LIFE Groups 6:00-7:30 pm - LIFE Groups are designed to help students GROW in their walk with Jesus. Students will meet in age-level groups with leaders who will engage them in dynamic conversations about their lives, their relationships with God and one another, and how Scripture guides them in the way of Jesus. Join us in rooms 106, 107, and 110 by 6:00 pm
Wednesday Evenings, LCStudents Midweek 6:00-7:30 pm - Midweek is our large group gathering for our students featuring fun activities, topical teaching, and community-building small groups.
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Core Values
Belonging
Our ministry seeks to foster a relationship with God expressed in Trinity and with each other. We believe God is a relationship (3 in 1) and desires a relationship with us. God’s desire if for us to be in healthy relationships between one another and creation. God created us as unique individuals but desires for us to live and GROW as people who belong to one another. Our ministry asks questions like, “how can we SERVE God and one another together?” Using our unique God-given talents and abilities, how can we build healthy relationships within our church and our community, and how can we help others find belonging in the community of God?
Becoming
We want to inspire and develop spiritual and emotional growth based in scripture that invite teenagers to follow the way of Christ. We believe that Jesus is the ultimate model of discipleship, and we seek to become more Christ-like to reflect the Kingdom of God on earth through the power of the Holy Spirit. We seek to understand what it means to look like the church that Christ is calling us to become (GROW) and to REACH those outside of a relationship with Christ. In light of what it means to follow Jesus, we want to ask teens, “What does it mean to be merciful?” “What does it mean to seek justice?” “What does it mean to have compassion for others?” “What does it mean to stand in solidarity with the weak, suffering, hopeless, etc.?”
Believing
LCStudents seeks to educate and train teenagers to live their beliefs by serving within and without the church. We desire to create an awareness that what students believe about God, themselves, and their community should impact how they order and live their lives. We want to provoke teenagers to think critically about addressing the needs of the church and community. We want to help our teenagers to discover and implement their God-given gifts and talents so that they will be equipped to SERVE others in the name of Jesus. Our ministry asks, “How are teenagers living out their beliefs through loving and serving their community?”