A little preview of 2007

2007 is off and running in the First Baptist Youth Ministries.

Sunday School (9:00 am) will be seeing an old/new addition to the team. Kevin Quick will begin teaching the JH Sunday School class. He has been working with our youth for about five years. He will be teaching starting this winter quarter on the subject of Biblical Characters.

The Senior High will be continuing their study through Proverbs, and into the book of Joshua in the Spring.

Wednesday nights have seen good attendance and participation. The Juinior High (with their fearless new teacher Brett Terry) continue to hold JV AWANA.

The Senior High is completing a study on How to Study the Bible for Yourself, based on the youth edition of the book by Tim Lahaye.
This Bible study method includes three layers:

1. 15 minutes a day of Bible Reading with a simple review in a spiritual diary fromat.

2. 3 memory verses a week. These vereses are learned in a topical format. The first week included three verses on the Word of God, the second week includes three verses on the Assurance of salvation. These verses are printed onto a card and carried around for daily review. It is an amazing memorization system that is designed to have a high (100%) rate of retention. A group of SHers are meeting once a week at McDonalds to spend memorizing their verses for the week. The title of the get-to-gethers is "McMornings"

3. Doing a 30 minute Bible study 3 days a week. This is to be separate from the reading. This is to be a personally chosen study style. The study types the young people are being trained in are: book studies, chapter studies, topical studies, word studies, subjective analysis, etc. Thge young people are also encouraged to use this time to do devotionals and studies/commentaries designed for person al spiritual growth. Along with the teaching for these study times was a lesson on basci hermeneutics.

While at first glance, this system has been a bit intimidating, many of the young people have been taking up the challenge. 15 minutes a day reading/30 minutes for 3 days/3 verses.

THE NEXT STUDY that will be dealt with for the SH Youth on Wednesday nights will be an indepth look into the different world-views that believers will face in this present time. It will be a comparison study of the following worldviews. Biblical Christianity/Marxism-Leninism/secular humansim/and the New Age.

This series will be designed to equip the young people with an accurate understanding of what each of these major world views claims and offers. It will compare the views in terms of law, philiosophy, family, history, science, etc.

Upon completion of the series, the young people will be ready to field the philosophies that the world and especially secular academia will throw at them.

Event coming up include:

January
6 - HEBRON Skitzomania
14,15 - SH Winter Retreat
28 - Sophmore Class Crash @ Leitch's
28 - JH SNAC @ Parkers

February
2 - HEBRON Rec Center
18 - SH SNAC @ Buckholz's
23 to 25 - Youth Retreat @ NBBC (CANCELLED)

March
11 - JH SNAC @ Mohr's
11 - Junior Class Crash @ Quick's
17 - HEBRON Youth Bible Conference @ Berea
24 - Teen 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament
31 - Final Four Bash

Other important dates:

Bike (Pedal) Trip: June 17-23
STEM (missions) Trip to Alaska: July 1-14


for more info on these and other events, contact Pastor Dave
dburmanjr@firstbaptistelyria.org

Well, that should do it for a couple of months!!

New New Year

This has, in my opinion been a highly successful blog. In that it has not consumed my time (obviously). My only blog viewer has informed me that it has been months since I last made an entry, so this is mainly for him.

Thanks for being my one supporter, Pastor Phillips.

New Year

Well, the summer is pretty much complete, and the new school year begins. This year @ First Baptist Youth Ministries will feature three new opportunities for the young people.

First, for the Junior Highers, we will be restarting up the puppet ministry. Our Junior Highers are always eager to get involved, and this will hopefully be a good ministry starting point. It will feature about 4 or five training sessions, then a bi-weekly ministry in our church and in some other settings throughout the school year. It will be lead by Kevin Quick, who has a burden for puppet ministry and is eager to help get things going. His wife, Barbi while still being a Senior High Youth leader will be handling the scheduling side of this. The Lord, as always, has provided great leadership for this new ministry opportunity.

We will also be starting a canvassing ministry for our Senior Highers. This comes from a request by our missions team to continue doing the things they have learned from their missions trip experience. They requested it, and who am I to keep them from ministering? We will start with a couple of training/reminding sessions, and then will open up a once-a-month canvassing project to cover a set amount of miles surrounding the church.

Finally, we will be having McMornings. This will be a once a week, before school, no outside devos/homework, laid back, prayer and short but sweet devo time. Hopefully this will be at a local McDonalds that allows all students from our 5 (I believe) different schools. If we can't agree on a spot, I will take orders and carry in to a central location. Just want to let the kids see each other at the beginning of a school day and get focused. I also hope this will continue to build up the unity in our youth ministry that has been growing so much in the past couple years.

Praise the Lord! Enjoy the Heat!

Psalm 33:20-22
Our soul waits for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His holy name.
Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.

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