Generosity Season – High School Ministry Fruit

Each year we could highlight many ways God is on the move, in and through Cross Creek Church. I hope you take a few minutes to hear from Katie Newton below, about just one area of the Lord’s work in our midst for 2023. As we ask each household to pray and prepare to present by Nov 12 a “First Fruits” Planned Giving Card for 2024 and our church takes a step of faith to expand our ministries we hope this will encourage all with the fruit from our kingdom investment.

YOUTH

When some of our longstanding youth staff relocated in 2022, we asked the Lord to provide for and even strengthen our reach to the next generation. Our leaders had implemented a “Sustainable Ministry Model” back in 2020 but we still expected our Middle School group might decline and some of our rising High Schoolers would drift away, as is typical. By God’s grace, the opposite happened and both our Middle and High School groups have grown, with 2/3 of the latter being young people who attend without family involvement at our church. Your decision of faith to offer “first fruits” supports the staff God is using to shape young lives for Christ.


Video Transcript: Katie

Hey everyone, I just wanted to take some time and tell you guys about some of the really incredible things the Lord has been doing in our youth group.

Both our middle school and high school groups have grown tremendously over the last year. We have a really big group of girls who have been really incredible in our middle school ministry, and we just had a really big group of ninth grade guys move up to the high school. The Lord has been so faithful in the ways that he has continually brought these students week after week to seek out his gospel, and hang out with one another, and really just fellowship and get to spend that time together.

Our high school group has been going through a testimony study this semester. And it’s been really beautiful to see the ways in which the Lord has pulled bits and pieces of the testimonies that our church members have shared with these students and shown them in, you know, their past and how things have influenced them and how they walk with the Lord. And the students are able to pull things and glean things from that, that they can apply to their own lives, which has been a really cool way to see our students grow and challenge themselves. And we’ve been working with them and talking with students outside of, you know, a regular Wednesday and Sunday night as well, and just challenging them to write their own testimonies. Think about the things that the Lord is doing in their lives and what it looks like when they came to faith. And the Lord has just been working in really incredible ways in that group and we’re so excited and anticipating all the wonderful ways the Lord is going to continue to work in that group throughout the next year.