First Youth Small Group

I'm happy to announce that Capricorn Community Church officially has Youth Small Groups! There are many more youth than there are leaders to lead, so we've divided the youth into 3 small groups & rotate a different group each week. Essentially each group will meet once a month. We'd like to meet with all the groups EVERY week but there aren't enough older ears to listen or heads to prepare. My learned-motto here is: baby steps! I also think that once-a-month meetings for these youth will help them make realistic steps in their walk with Christ. Putting too many expectations and required meetings on these teens have proven to cause them to flee because tasks seem unrealistic or too much of a change. Making changes one small step at a time!

It was nice to be back in small-group action! I miss 'Core Groups' (as we called them at Shades Mountain where I came from). I miss listening to individual needs, speaking truth into individual lives, being deeply involved in the lives of youth. 'Crowd Ministry' was very effective in Christ's ministry on earth, but we see over and over in scripture that discipleship was a great focus of His and Matthew 28:18-20 is Jesus' command to us to also go & make disciples. Such a hard, yet important task.

Pray that Youth Small Groups will help deepen the walks-of-faith of our teens. Pray also that God brings the right people to help us lead & grow these discipleship groups! We're celebrating the initial ignition of these groups but know God has bigger plans ahead!










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