About PowerHouse
What PowerHouse is about:
Truth-Centered, Radical & Relational, Friendships & Discipleship, and Life-Changing.
Growing up in this generation is challenging. Yet, God has given us everything we need to live it to the fullest as we grow in our knowledge and trust in Jesus Christ.
We want students to know that our teen ministry is a place they can go to get the truth and to develop a real relationship with God through Jesus Christ. This is a place that welcomes everyone and offers opportunities for students to take the next steps in their own relationships with Christ.
- Connect: Crazy games, cool snacks, radical student led worship, and Bible challenge.
- Go Deep: Intense study of God’s Word through small groups.
- Step Up: Develop leadership skills as you serve in PowerHouse.
- Reach Out: PowerHouse parties, Concerts, Campouts, Lock-ins, Retreats, and Mission trips.
For information or questions about our Youth ministry, please contact Pastor Paul paul@oakwoodf.org
EFCA National Youth Conference – Challenge 2012
New Orleans July 1-6, 2012
VISION: To provide a catalytic growth level event, targeted for high school students who have trusted Christ seeking to Challenge them to live as a “sent one” on mission with God, everyday, everywhere, forever.
NEEDS: Most students understand the core significance of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection as the means for their forgiveness but have a very vague understanding of the implications of the Gospel in their everyday lives. Many young people are clear on what God calls them to avoid, but not what God has called them to gives themselves to.
THEME: EVERYTHING’S NEW: everyday. everywhere. forever.
Daily, we are bombarded with messages of new inventions, ideas and experiences that promise to change our lives or fulfill our longings. And yet each day we wake up and it seems nothing has changed. But the promise of the gospel is that everything is new. We’ve made the gospel small. We’ve made Christianity about little else than avoiding bad things, having access to a cosmic lifeguard, and getting our ticket to heaven stamped. But the gospel isn’t small! And following Jesus is about so much more than avoiding sin and going to Heaven. We follow a risen Christ, who killed us when He was killed, and raised us when He was raised, which means that now we can view everything through the other side of death — eyes filled with New Life. This risen Christ entrancement changes the way we see ourselves and every other person around us. It changes the way we view the church, school, technology, sports, dating, love, friendship and all the things that make up our lives. It changes everything.
Through the book of Colossians we will help students open risen eyes to discover the inexplicable wonder that through the Gospel, everything is new. Together, we will see how Jesus, not just crucified for our sin, but risen for our new life, has massive repercussions for why and how we live our lives everyday, everywhere, forever. Literally, everything is new.
PURPOSE: Challenge 2012 exists to enlarge student’s vision of the resurrected Christ and therefore walk in the fullness of a resurrected life in everything, everywhere, everyday, forever.
Register for Challenge 2012: Challenge 2012 Registration Packet
Forms: Challenge Health & Permission Form (Required for all participants)
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