-SundaysWe continue our Sunday morning study through the Old Testament in the Vault. We start corporate worship at 9:40 and split up into High School and Jr. High groups for interactive teaching. Students leave Sunday School with a working knowledge of that week’s Scripture, ready to discuss the lesson with the rest of the family. When we meet back on Sunday nights at 6pm, we divide into guys’ and girls’ small groups and spend around 30 minutes in further discussion of the takeaways from that morning’s scripture. GSM Graefenburg Student Ministry 3rd Wednesdays are back! Every month, we take the Student Ministry off-site to hang at the home of one of our church families.. We leave at 6:30pm and we are back at 9pm. Transportation and dinner are provided! If you would like to know where we are going in a given month, or if you have the perfect piece of property for 20+ teenagers to enjoy, shoot me an email at phil@gbcfamily.com -WednesdaysEvery Wednesday night in February we will meet in the Vault to watch part of “Ed’s Story” a 7-part video series about a man who has served God faithfully with his life, yet finds himself diagnosed with ALS and unable to continue on in ministry. As his whole life changes, we walk with him through suffering and loss and see that God’s ways are bigger than our losses or our triumphs. Suffering or not, as believers, Jesus is always at the center of our lives. We finish our time on Wednesdays in the MAC. My prayer for this year is that God would increase the faith of our students past the faith of their parents. We ended 2015 with a study in prayer and the life of the Church universal and we have now entered into a study of grief, suffering, and what following Jesus has to do with letting go of our dreams. My prayer for our parents is for God to give them the faith to allow their students to follow God wherever He may call. In my 25 years I have learned that God’s will and way for a human life is always a bigger adventure than the life a person would’ve planned for themselves. God is not boring, He is rarely predictable, and yet He is intimately involved and unbelievably committed to loving His people. As His followers, we often find that faithfulness looks very different from our personal dreams for ourselves. For parents this may mean laying down a child’s success in a sport or academic activity in order to love more and serve more. For a student, this will almost always mean a reprioritization of what it s important and worthy of time, money, and thought; a refocusing of worship. As we spend time finding Christ in the Old Testament on Sunday mornings, studying the life of a modern suffering servant on Wednesdays, and getting off-campus for 3rd Wednesdays and other events, my hope always is that students will make the choice to follow Christ wherever He leads and that parents will have the Godgiven courage to launch their sons and daughters into a world cursed with darkness to proclaim the Gospel and live a life of sacrificial love. Church, our great task in the lives of our children and students is to keep the Gospel ever before them. Join me as we pray that God would call and shape our students into genuine disciples. - Pastor Phil 3
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