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Youth Missions Philosophy and Goals
The Youth Missions program at First Presbyterian Church is designed to go beyond providing specific service opportunities with a focus on helping our youth become people who will continue to live out a lifestyle of servanthood. We seek to take them out of their comfortable environment so that they will experience the radical, joyful alternative of investing their lives in serving in places where their current and future investment will be needed most. This investment almost always multiplies back to the teenagers, their families and the church.
| ... develop our youth into exceptional Godly men and women of integrity who will transform their homes, their schools, their churches, their workplaces, and their worlds for Christ. |
Our missions program is structured to provide trips for each grade level as well as at least one multi-grade level mission during springbreak. The trips are lead by parent volunteers in concert with youth staff and are designed to achieve the following goals:
Goal 1: A "great cloud of witnesses" surrounds every student participating in an FPC youth mission.
Goal 2: Youth mission opportunities will serve as a means of equipping and motivating parents of FPC youth to provide intentionally for the Christian nurture of their children.
Goal 3: Youth mission opportunities will build church leaders by having older youth serve as youth leaders on mission trips for younger students.
Goal 4: A strong majority of students who graduate from the FPC youth ministry will continue to live out a lifestyle of servanthood.
We believe that youth missions is a critical component of our goal to develop our youth into exceptional Godly men and women of integrity who will transform their homes, their schools, their churches, their workplaces, and their worlds for Christ. We invite you to explore the places we visit and serve as we carry out God's command to "Love each other as I have loved you." John 15:17
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