YouthQuest exists to glorify God in Charlotte and serve those beyond as we introduce them to the SAVIOR, and mature them by: provoking a life of WORSHIP, teaching OBEDIENCE to God's word, FORMING RELATIONSHIPS with each other for fellowship and accountability, and DISCOVERING how God has shaped us to serve in His kingdom.
SAVIOR "Go and make disciples...baptizing them." [EVANGELISM]
WORSHIP "Love the Lord your God with all your heart." [WORSHIP]
OBEDIENCE "Teaching Obedience to God's word." [DISCIPLESHIP]
FORMING RELATIONSHIPS "Love one another." [FELLOWSHIP]
DISCOVERING "Love your neighbor as yourself." [MINISTRY]
We are committed to the daily challenge of helping teenage live these things out in their lives--the real way! Our mission to help the pursue these things comes from God's word:
The Great Commandment
"Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-40 NIV
The Great Commission
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
Potential Audience
Below we have listed some reasons for defining a potential audience when we develop programs. Our efforts to reach teenagers, and meet them where they are in their spiritual walk, is a much more personal and relational approach than just "programming." The programs aid us in creating a place to start those relationships or cultivate them. When we develop a new program or when we seek to maintain the ones we have, we always consider who they are reaching and whether or not they are effective. This is the tool that we use:
Reasons for defining potential audiences
-If preliminary time is spent identifying the different audiences in our ministry, YouthQuest will become more successful in fulfilling God's purposes.
-When we know who we are trying to reach, we can design our programs to focus on one of God's five purposes and target a specific audience (potential audiences).
-The goal of YouthQuest is to reach teens form the community and to help them grow into teens who are comitted to being a part of the Core fo the Body of Christ.
-If you have a clear picture of what each level is, it will be easier to direct teens to activities that will focus on where they are spiritually.
-As the commitment level increases, the size of the group will decrease.
-Building spiritual health takes time.
-The potential audience circles are a human-made model used to identify the targeted audiences. They are not spiritual circles and should never be confused as such.
-Students are not "assigned a value."
-The purpose of identifying the potential audience is not to isolate students, but to recognize commitment levels in order to enhance growth by being more strategic in the program designs.
Potential Audience + Purpose = Progam
For example:
Community students + purpose of evangelism = Basketball
-Programs don't have to be weekly; some may be monthly, etc.
-The eternal purposes of God never change. A potential audience exists in most churches. Our programs can and should change as often as necessary to reach the potential audience and best fulfill God's purposes for YouthQuest.
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