I often hear that teenagers are ignored and not included in big discussions and decisions in many aspects of society today. I am excited that this is not true at the Rochester Church!
Next Sunday, June 15, our entire church body will be having a special meeting at 10:00am. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss the future of our Sunday morning schedule. We will be discussing worship times, Bible classes, and the future of spiritual formation for the Rochester Church.
Following the meeting on Sunday, the entire church body will be invited into a period of fasting and prayer as we seek to discern the best course of action as a church body.
The really cool thing for me is that our teenagers are being invited to join in this family dialogue. They are being invited to join the meeting, fast and pray, and engage in the process as we seek the input of the entire congregation.
My prayer is that our students will rise to the challenge and get involved in this process. This is an exciting time for the church at Rochester, and our teenagers can have a voice as we make decisions that will impact the future of our church family.
I have seen our students step up before and show their developing spiritual maturity and voice. I expect nothing less in the days and weeks ahead.
shine!
Jason
1 comment:
Somewhere (I read too much and spend a lot of time on blogs) the comment was made recently that one reason why youth end up leaving church entirely after they grow up is that they can't cross the divide from youth group to congregation. In the youth group they have the cool leader who listens and a worship style that seems relevant. They graduate from high school and are plopped into a somewhat colder environment (or head off to college where they don't know anyone and there's no church like their old youth group) with an alien or outdated worship style and no cool minister to spends time with them, and of course it's easy to leave.
That's probably not the reason for all of the post-youth group attrition that churches experience, but it must be a factor, I think.
Glad your church is involving the youth.
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