Students,teens,youth,"young people", however you would like to label them, are looked down at in this generation. More I think in the church then even in the world. How many times have you heard this. "Youth are the church of the future." Many people in the church treat youth ministry as baby sitting teens, not "real" ministry.
The youth are not the church of the future....they are the church right NOW. I have been so amazed at the responses of the youth in our ministry over the last month. The Holy Spirit has been showing up and the youth are responding to him. This generation of students needs the Holy Spirit if they are going to try and live in this culture without becoming like this culture.
1 Timothy 4:12
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
Pray for students, that God will change them and help them become a bright light in their schools today. Just as many angels party in heaven when a student gets saved as when an adult. Their souls are just as precious to God as anyone else's.
I am believing that in this generation of students there will be ones that surrender to God, and that God will change them into faithful followers of him and empower them to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth in their schools.
Pastor Russell
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