GBC Student Ministry

God is certainly bringing glory to Himself at Graefenburg Baptist Church. I am blessed to work with a great bunch of teenagers (and adults) and the ministry is just going great.

How is it going great you might ask?

Well, I guess the typical response would be to talk about growth and numbers. The church has recently joined in the student ministry vision to renovate and build to our existing youth facilities, which are pitiful, to produce a nice facility that will properly help us with our youth ministry covenant/purpose. The new facility will have a nice cafe and "connect" area, as well as small group study rooms, as well as a completely new structure for student led worship. The project was calculated at costing $44,000. We raised the money in 2 days.

Is that great? Of course.

But when someone asks me how the youth ministry is going at GBC, which they do quite often, I am thrilled to respond in this way first, before anything else. . .

There are a few, certainly not all, but a few who are getting it. I am currently working with 4 teenagers outside of normal youth group meeting times. Two of us are working through a series of being a "new believer." They are coming to the meetings prepared, with their booklets filled out and eager to discuss their faith. I am working with another couple of students by reading with them through a more advanced book on spiritual disciplines and we are discussing it chapter by chapter. We are baptizing teenagers, students are active in helping lead worship, and I do not mean just during the sanctuary meeting time. We are capable of doing all of this because God is being faithful. I truly believe this will be an important year for the student ministry at GBC, something we would not believe if we had been told.