the Spiked Student Ministries on a roll
Posted by Melinda | Filed under Life
Bet you’ve been wondering what’s going on with Spiked. For the past month…well there’s been no Spiked services going on. Know why? It’s because there is quite an awesome team of adults meeting regularly to come up with Spiked 2010!
Yes there have been changes…again. And it may seem frustrating, but look at it this way. God gives us the freedom to try anything we can think of to make our ministry fruitful. So sometimes…we have to make changes until we find what seems to work out best for reaching our teens for Christ.
Sure - we want kids to have fun at Spiked. But that’s not what it’s ALL about. Our first priority is creating the environment that helps kids meet Jesus. And yeah…of course we want there to be an element of fun. But there first has to be the element of encountering Jesus. Fun is just a perk! We’ve been meeting regularly on how to make that happen.
So what kind of changes are coming about you ask?
Well we think that the public school systems knows what they are doing by dividing Middle School and High School to create the environments that are conductive to reaching the appropriate ages.
In light of that, the decision has been made to go back to having two separate services for Middle and High School aged teens. So starting Sunday January 24th Middle School (ages 6-8) will be meeting during the 11:00AM service at NHC. They will experience worship, Jesus and relationships with each other and an adult christian in small groups.
Starting on Wednesday January 27th, High School (grade 9-12) teens will meet for small groups. See small groups are equally as important for teens as they are for adults. But guess what - in the meantime they will be able to go hang out in the SPiked Youth Room starting at 3:00PM. That’s right - they can go from school to NHC, do homework, hang out, hit the snack bar and be in a safe environment with adults until groups start at 7:00PM. What better place for teens to hang out than church after school? They’ll even have adult mentors available if they need some one on one!!!
I think these are awesome developments. So if you have a Spiked age teen, hopefully you’ve already received your Parent Connect Discussion letter in the mail. This Sunday at 12:30PM we will feed you AND your teens for lunch. The teens will get to hang out in the Spiked environment with some adults while the parents get informed and meet the Spiked leadership team and have the opportunity to ask questions.
So do these exciting developments sound good to you? Even if you don’t have a Spiked aged teen I bet you do. How can you help? Hit me up about serving opportunities in Spiked Student Minitries.
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