Next Gen Vision 2024
You probably already know this, but we live in a time in which young people are leaving the church, and leaving their faith, at an alarming rate. It’s been said that today about 70% of young people who are brought up in church end up walking away from their faith after high school. Some of them will eventually return to their faith and to the church, but many will not.
This reality is evidence of the fact that we have an enemy who is out to pull us away from God in any way he can. He has deceived, and is deceiving, so many of our young people, and leading them astray. We’ve all seen it. And as we watch this happen in the world around us, we might find ourselves thinking that it looks as though the enemy is winning. But Jesus painted a very different picture.
Jesus told his Disciples at Caesarea Philippi that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church. See, one of the hope-filled truths of Scripture that we sometimes forget about is the fact that though we have an enemy, he has already been defeated by Jesus! The enemy’s fate has been sealed, and in the end he will not win. In the end, God wins! Satan will not be victorious in the end! And here at Castine, we don’t want him to be victorious over our young people.
Castine’s NextGen Ministry (birth-high school) is determined not to let Satan be victorious over the next generation in our church. We want students to graduate from this ministry with a firm foundation that won’t crumble when the enemy attacks. We want them to be able to withstand the world’s arguments against God and Christianity. Not only that, we are working to build up a generation that will go out and push back the gates of hell as they spread the gospel among people who don’t yet know Jesus.
To put it more concisely, the vision of the NextGen Ministry here at Castine is to build up a generation of disciples the gates of hell can’t stand against! That’s what we’re about. That’s the aim of everything we do. Could it be that God is asking you to join the team and help us as we chase down this vision?
This reality is evidence of the fact that we have an enemy who is out to pull us away from God in any way he can. He has deceived, and is deceiving, so many of our young people, and leading them astray. We’ve all seen it. And as we watch this happen in the world around us, we might find ourselves thinking that it looks as though the enemy is winning. But Jesus painted a very different picture.
Jesus told his Disciples at Caesarea Philippi that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church. See, one of the hope-filled truths of Scripture that we sometimes forget about is the fact that though we have an enemy, he has already been defeated by Jesus! The enemy’s fate has been sealed, and in the end he will not win. In the end, God wins! Satan will not be victorious in the end! And here at Castine, we don’t want him to be victorious over our young people.
Castine’s NextGen Ministry (birth-high school) is determined not to let Satan be victorious over the next generation in our church. We want students to graduate from this ministry with a firm foundation that won’t crumble when the enemy attacks. We want them to be able to withstand the world’s arguments against God and Christianity. Not only that, we are working to build up a generation that will go out and push back the gates of hell as they spread the gospel among people who don’t yet know Jesus.
To put it more concisely, the vision of the NextGen Ministry here at Castine is to build up a generation of disciples the gates of hell can’t stand against! That’s what we’re about. That’s the aim of everything we do. Could it be that God is asking you to join the team and help us as we chase down this vision?
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