Youth Ministry (Middle/High School)


Motions of Praise/Sounds of Silence – Praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,.. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.  Psalm 150:4,6

Our purpose is to provide young people (grade 8 through grade 12) an outlet to praise the Lord, impart the importance of worship and praise both communally and personally.  Youth will study the scripture to understand the biblical basis for ministry through dance and mime.  Some youth reach out to the hearing impaired community and share the Gospel of Jesus.  Youth:

1. Express worship to God through liturgical dance/dramatic arts
2. Enhance the worship experience
3. Provide expressive interpretation of the ministry of song

Scheduled Thursdays, 6:30PM-8PM (MoP-dance)                                                                   Upper Rm
Fridays following choir rehearsals 7:30PM – 8:30PM (SoS-mime/sign language)               Chapel

Spirit and Truth Youth Choir - Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Psalm 100:2

Our purpose is to:

1. Be used as an Instrument of Praise and Worship
2. Express love for God through song
3. Apply what they have learned in Church School and CSI Tuesdays
4. Become effective worshippers
5. Recite a different scripture monthly

Youth grades 6-12 may participate in the Spirit and Truth Youth Choir.  The choir sings each 2nd Sunday and participates in a festival each year.

SaT Scheduled Wednesdays/Fridays, 6:30PM – 7:30PM                   Sanctuary

Student Leadership – Command and teach these things. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.  1 Timothy 4:11-13

Our purpose is to advise the Minister for Youth Ministries and thereby the Empowerment Team on how to administer the vision of the Calvary Youth Ministries in a way that is inviting, embracing and encouraging to all young people while being models of Christian Character, Christian Education and Christian Service.  This takes place through:

1. Consistent and faithful prayer
2. Initiating visionary planning for the ministries
3. Active participation in the life of the church
4. Engaging in youth empowerment through mentorship and leadership
5. Conceiving opportunities for spiritual formation and character development

Youth in grades 6 through 12 are invited to apply.

Minister for Youth Ministry, Servant Leader

Teen Lounge – When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.  1 Corinthians 13:11

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12

Our purpose is to empower and educate middle and high school students for mature discipleship by meeting their developmental needs.  Teen Lounge is designed to:

1. Build confidence through self-esteem/God-esteem
2. Foster/nurture standards and faith
3. Define/model a healthy sense of ‘manhood’ and “womanhood”
4. Empower and educate boys spiritually, physically, mentally and financially
5. Engage in missions

Middle School Group:  2 Wednesdays/month, 6:00PM - 8:00PM         MJFH/Pauline Rm
High School Group:     2 Wednesdays/month, 6:00PM - 8:00PM         The Famished Frog

Youth Ushers – Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.  Psalm 84:10

Our purpose is to serve the congregation and guests attending 2nd Sunday worship and other special services by providing seating directions and general assistance in receiving offerings. We also provide a warm welcome to all worshipers. (Grades 7-12)

Called Meetings

Youth Worship – But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they were indignant. "Do you hear what these children are saying?" they asked him. "Yes," replied Jesus, "have you never read, " 'From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise'?"  Matthew 21:15-16

Our purpose is to provide children, grades 4-7, the opportunity to participate in a worship service designed to increase their understanding and practice of the Christian faith.  Worshippers:

1. Learn to be active participants in worship
2. Are trained to become viable leaders of worship
3. Increase their confidence in the worship experience to enter worship in the main sanctuary

3rd and 4th Sundays, 11:00AM – 1:00PM                                         Chapel