youth Ministry

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Winter YOUTH SCHEDULE!

  • Sunday School

    Large Group

    High School Girls’ Breakfast Club

    Theology Class

  • April 19 : Middle School Campout/ High School Work Crew

    May 5th: Senior Send-Off

Spring + Summer Schedule

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Middle School Campout:

April 19th

Grab your hammock and come camp with us! Games, teaching and good food in the great outdoors at the Bennett Farm!

Are you a High Schooler wanting to serve on the Campout Work Crew? We're looking for relational help (making friends!) running games, cookin' meals, and general camp fun! Let us know if you can come one or both days! 

Bridgemont Summer Mission

Trip Dates: Sunday, June 2 - Thursday, June 6

Join us this summer as we head back to the Tennessee mountains to serve the community around the Katy Holler area. Our base-camp will be Bridgemont Camp & Outdoor Center.  The primary focus of our time will be manual labor, serving the poor in rural areas outside of Pigeon Forge, hosting an outreach/community event at the camp, and helping serve the ministry of Bridgemont by completing some much needed maintenance around camp. We'd love for you to join us! This trip was a crowd favorite and we are so excited to be headed back to Bridgemont. 

The total cost of the trip is $500-- beginning with a $150 deposit to save your spot. We will have a team meeting in the coming months to discuss fundraising. Each individual will be responsible for raising the full amount of their trip. 

Spring Teaching Plan

Sunday School

Sending Out Laborers: A Study in Missions (Matthew 9:36-38)

Sunday School is back January 7th. We'll be diving into the theology of missions and looking at the lives of some missionaries throughout history. We're leading into our summer of youth missions-- the Bridgemont trip and the Greece trip-- so we are aiming to better equip you to understand why we do what we do! Please join us Sundays at 9:15 in the Firestone. 

Sunday Night Youth Group

Become Hard to Kill: Idols of the Heart (Romans 8:13)

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” Romans 8:13

John Owen famously wrote, “Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you.” This semester on Sunday nights, we’ll be looking at the idols of heart and how God equips us to “kill the sin” that works hard to capture our imaginations, hearts, and lives. Using the framework of Tim Keller’s book Counterfeit Gods, we’ll look into the lure of success, love and power, and “the good life.” Many of us place our faith in these things, believing they hold the key to happiness. Many of us feel lost, alone, disenchanted, and resentful.

But the truth is that we have made lesser gods of these good things – idols that can’t give us what we really need. There is only one God who can wholly satisfy us and give us—as John 10:10 says— life to the full, in Christ.

 

Why Youth Ministry?

RPCYouth is a ministry to 6th-12th graders that seeks to bring the gospel to bear on their lives as an extension of the church’s mission to reach and equip. RPCYouth is not a separate ministry from the ministry of the church. Instead, it is an integral and vital part of our church’s overall ministry to not only the student, but to the family as well. Sixth-12th grade students are to be viewed as FULL MEMBERS of the church, and we prayerfully expect that God is working in their lives. At the same time, these students are at a stage of particular growth, change, and transition (spiritually, physically and emotionally) and RPCYouth seeks to partner with families to assist during this time in their teen’s life.

At Sunday Night Large Group, we are looking to reach our students— with the gospel, with friendship, with spiritually healthy adult leaders who are walking with Jesus. We do this through fellowship + fun, teaching from the Bible, and spending a good amount of time together in Small Groups.

During the Sunday School hour, we are looking to equip— this is a more theologically-heavy deep dive into scripture. Through teaching and Table Group discussion, we’ll look at specific books of the Bible together throughout the semester.

While RPCYouth offers much, it cannot replace the role of the family in the life of a student. Deuteronomy 6:7 instructs us that we are to take the commandments that God gives us and “impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” New scholarship and data have shown that the greatest predictors of young adults having strong faith commitments is “parents talking with their teenage children about religious matters at home during the week.” (from Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation) We’re here to help you do just that!

 
 
 

Purpose of RPCYouth

1. To move students towards Christ as they move towards adulthood—Our aim is to prayerfully press the gospel into students’ minds and hearts through consistent and faithful relationships. We are committed to walk alongside them as they move through this stage of life.

2. To invite students into the mission of the church now as they prepare for lifetime membership in the Body of Christ—We aim to equip students to serve Christ, one another, and the world right now, and we are committed to providing opportunities for them to serve alongside leaders. Through this, we aim to equip them for future participation in the church and in God’s worldwide mission.