HEYP!

Well, if you were there yesterday, you probably felt the same level of excitement as I did over the new ministry launch for student ministries at New Life.  We began new services for high school and junior high called “Velocity” and “Revolve,” respectively. In Velocity, we began a dynamic multimedia-driven series called Cinematic Jesus in which we teach out of video clips. For this service, we taught from the film Transformers and this next week we’ll be seeing how God can speak to us through the film Bruce Almighty. In Revolve, we began a series called Collide and the message was “Colliding with your Direction,” in which we talked about how we sometimes follow the wrong direction in life even though our intentions might be pure.

Attendance was up a ton, with a total of 65 in Velocity and 66 in Revolve, making an overall total of 131. A HUGE thanks goes to all of the leaders and students who helped prepare during this past week and who invested in making yesterday an amazing experience. So next week I hope you can join us in our next week of our new ministries!

As many of you know, there are some pretty big things happening at New Life in the next couple months. We’re making a big shift in student ministries and it looks like God is already doing some pretty cool things in the lives of our students. Over the past 4 months, God has grown our junior high ministry to over twice the number of students each week and we’ve seen some kids make some major movements forward in their relationship with Jesus. We (Sarah & I) have been given the great opportunity to meet a ton of new people on Sundays who are interested in being a part of the junior high ministry. We have also been given the sense from many parents and students that our current Saturday evening service time is too conflicting for many of our families who wish to enjoy the worship experience with their junior high child before dropping their child off to go to the student service.

Among these and several other reasons, we are now making the exciting leap to Sunday mornings and look forward to what God is going to do in an entirely new worship experience for our students during the 10:45am service time. Our junior high students will experience an awesome time of games, music, teaching, and discussion about God in our 75 minute time called “Revolve.”

As excited as I am to see a new ministry take shape, I’m even more excited to see the many exciting ways that God is going to use this next chapter of the ministry to change the lives of our students and families.

So, on August 16th, I hope to see all of you junior high students at our new “Revolve” experience!