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Word of welcome

Welcome to CFAN Youth Ministry!

Whether you are visiting for the first time or looking for a place to learn and grow together as a community, we welcome you!  We seek to be a community of believers that is embraced by God’s love as displayed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and, as a result, is transformed by His message of grace and new life.  As a part of this transformation, we believe that God calls us to be His “hands and feet” by demonstrating the love that we have received to the people of this world—both near and far.

We hope you will make CFAN Youth Ministry your home church and join us on this journey!

Ministry info:

Vision Statement:  Perfect Oneness in Christ
 
Main Verse: “I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” 

John 17:23 (ESV)
Mission Statement:  We exist to make His great name known by seeking perfect oneness in Christ.   

Strategy:  C.R.O.S.S.

• Care (fellowship): Sunday Bible School ministry is more than a weekly time of teaching.  Our intention of our SBS is that it will run more like a care group, which means that you aren’t only a teacher but a shepherd who cares for the sheep.  That’s how Jesus often referred to himself in his relationship to His people.  So you are truly doing the kind of work that Jesus did when you care for your students. J

 

• Reach (evangelism): This is our end goal of our ministry where we desire our students to be equipped to make a difference in this world where God places them.  John Piper said in one of his sermons that mission exists because worship doesn’t.  We are in urgent need to be equipped to go out to those that are in desperate need to hear about the hope of salvation, which we found in Christ alone so that they also may live this given life to glorify and enjoy God forever!

 

• Offer (worship): Worship is what we have in mind through all that we do in our CFAN yg ministry.  Apostle Paul told Christians to do even the smallest things for the glory of God.  Every event we plan together from the beach trip to the banquets to bible studies is all part of our attempts to teach our students to worship God in every aspect of life.

 

But our most important part of our ministry is our Sunday family worship service.  We’ve lost our sense of the importance of corporate worship services today and rather elevated other ministry events to, if not equal, but even more important priorities than Sunday worship service.  I believe that God has called us to reverse and restore our corporate worship services to its significance! Therefore all teachers will be required to fully participate in our worship services!!

• Share (discipleship):  We aren’t just called to go share the gospel but to go and make disciples who will devote their entire life, not only some part or seasons, in seeking God’s glory.  Our Servant/Student Leadership training program is designed to fulfill this area of our calling.  Discipleship is a lifelong journey that’s ahead of us but it is our attempt to strengthen and guide our leaders and students to faithfully engage in their calling of becoming disciple-making disciples in Christ!  All teachers are required to participate and complete our two year SLT programs.  Our leadership motto is that “Leaders are learners.  We stop leading when we stop learning.” Let’s learn and grow together!

 

• Service (ministry):  Various ministries are byproducts of blessing through worship but not worship itself.  We are called to worship not services.  People often get mixed up with this where they end up becoming busy-bodies while remaining as poor worshipers.  The very first form of church in book of Acts 6 faced the similar kind of confusion.  The main responsibility of the disciples weren’t to wait on tables, meaning various needs of the people but to focus on prayer and the ministry of the word (v.4).  Just like the disciples appointed other leaders to meet other rising ministry needs, we hope to not only involve our leaders but also students to be faithfully serving and meeting the needs of others within the church.

 
 
Core Values:

1.  Leaders are Learners: we stop leading when we stop learning.

2.  Relational Youth Ministry: students will not listen and follow unless they are
convinced that we care; therefore building personal relationship with our students are the key in our entire ministry and, further, in discipleship training process; Jesus was the master of relational ministry.

3.  A Loving Community: ‘perfect oneness’ means experiencing the love of God through our loving and caring community where loving God and loving others are naturally taking place (Mt 22:37-39).  And this very community will serve as the light of the world that will speak louder than what we may preach and teach.

4.  Student Leadership:  we believe that all Christians have been called to be leaders in this world in order to “go and make disciples of all nations”.  It means that teachers are encouraged to stop doing everything for students in order that they use their God-given gifts and talents to be involved with various aspects of ministry in the church.  God’s gifted every child of His.  Let’s develop our eyes of discovering their gifts and guiding them to the right place where they can learn to enjoy serving the Lord with passion.

5.  Family Friendly Ministry:  we believe in creating a family friendly environment in our ministry because family is a critical place of where discipleship must continue.  Having a close relationship with parents and connection with PTA will not only benefit our ministry but also advance our students’ spiritual growth in the long run.