Youth Worship begins on January 11 in the Family Life Center.  It will be one of two worship options on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm.  Corey Johnston will be preaching and the youth band will be leading worship. 

Confirmation for 7th grade students will begin on Sunday January 29.  We will meet each Sunday from 10:30 – 11:45 pm in the youth area.  If you plan to attend or have questions, please call the church office or email David Roderick at david@troyumc.org.

What is NLY?

new: 

1. Come into being or been made or acquired or discovered 

2. Original and of a kind not seen before 

3. Harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

life:    

1. A characteristic state or mode of living 

2.The experience of being alive 

3. The period from the present until death.

youth:  

1. An early period of development

2. The appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc.

3. The time of being young.

NLY’s Threefold Purpose:

Restore. We must help restore ourstudent’s generation and win it over – or someone else will.  A youth ministry of significance willsee students won to Christ weekly.

Grow.   We must help the students grow in Christ.We are called me make disciples, not Christians.  A youth ministry should have a systematic approach to the spiritual formation of their students.

Develop.  We must develop our students to be evangelist.  The effectiveness of our youth ministry is not how many students we can obtain, but how manystudents we can equip to send out into ministry.  It is our mission to equip students to be effective in any ministry.