Youth Work
This is our vision concerning our children
and young people: we are co-laboring with God to produce sons of God for the
Body of Christ, and to consummate the New Jerusalem.
We're laboring to take all of our children in the old creation and to
coordinate with the Lord to make them His children in the new creation.
We're laboring with the Lord for our children to receive the divine life and to
remain in the church life their whole life and for them to make a strong
decision to say: "I choose to be here! By the Lord's mercy I will be here my
whole life because, positively, I see something of the vision of God's purpose;
and negatively, I see that everything else is of vanity."
It is to this end that we labor, pray, fight, serve, and minister in one accord
to our children, allowing the Love of God in Christ Jesus to flow to them
through us. May the Lord bless all our children and young people and may He
preserve them in His love and grace.
Quoted from The
Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches
© 1978 Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.