Youth Ministry
Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church Youth Ministry
VISION
By God’s power and through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, we continuously strive to be a spiritually healthy, Christ-centered, biblically-based Children & Youth Ministry that equips children and teens to live committed lives to Jesus Christ and empowers them to reach out and share the love of Christ with the world around them.
PURPOSE
The Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church Children and Youth Ministry exists to REACH non-believing students to help them SHARE in God’s word to OFFER themselves in SERVICE to Christ, and to CARE for one another.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY
The success of the children and youth ministry depends on a team working together to continue to grow children, teens, parents and adult leaders both spiritually as well as personally.
At Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church we want the C&Y ministry to focus on outreach and evangelism in 2009. Our purpose is to pursue and reflect the C&Y Five Fold purpose; evangelism, worship, fellowship, discipleship, and ministry. This ultimately means we want to continuously pursue and conform to the purposes that were commanded by Jesus and manifested in the early church, the Great Commandment and the Great Commission in Matthew 22:37-40 and Matthew 28: 19-20 respectfully. All five purposes can be divided into five categories with all of them being important.
Our purpose thus establishes the foundation from which we can become a more purpose driven ministry in every respect. Most children and youth, especially, the un-churched, do not identify with words like evangelism, discipleship, and worship. We want all children and youth to understand and participate actively in this ministry and we want to continue to communicate the purposes with words that children and youth can more easily embrace. Therefore, we want to encourage our children & youth at G.E.B.C. to learn the purpose statement through the words listed below:
Care is our word for Fellowship
Reach is our word for Evangelism
Offer is our word for Worship
Share is our word for Discipleship
Service is our word for Ministry
At GEBC, our, children and youth ministry will continue to be driven by our purpose statement.
