Big Things Are Happening in Our Youth Group By Melissa Shepski – The Church at Selwyn God continues to help our youth grow in deep and significant ways especially in the last few months. We’re Seeing Real Growth Lately, our youth have been growing in amazing ways. They aren't just showing up; they are growing in their faith. At the beginning of this year, we made a simple change: We
Today's Teens Conference Young Leaders Collective Ascent retreats Ascent Implementation Team Student-led microgrants Assembly 5:1 Church Today’s Teens Conference – Feb 28 at Bramalea Baptist Church Largest and longest running youth leader conference in Ontario built for point youth leaders, volunteer leaders, student leaders and those that want to invest in young people; different sessions for students and adults leaders. group discount available, CBOQ churches point leaders go
First Hungarian Baptist Church in Toronto does not have a huge youth group, but their commitment to following Christ is unwavering. Recently, they’ve experienced incredible blessings that remind us of God’s faithfulness. Pastor Dániel Püsök shared "We are thankful to God, that one young man, who left the church and the faith several years ago, came back to Christ and got baptized. Not in our church, however we are still
This summer, Iglesia Bautista Luz Y Verdad had the joy of sending 10 of our teens to camp at Word of Life in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Their youth leader, Laura Elena, shared how deeply the experience Impacted their youth. “They came back like a family and they are more persuasive at the Word of God, and I think that’s a huge change in them.” The Youth leaders have seen a
What is a Student-Led Microgrant? The Student-Led Initiatives Microgrant is a funding opportunity provided by CBOQ to empower youth and young adults (up to the age of 25) to lead ministry projects that impact their communities. Grants of up to $1,000 are available to support new creative, missional, and community-focused initiatives. Who Can Apply - Youth or young adults connected to a CBOQ church. - Applications must be submitted on
Day 6 and 7: On day 6 we have 2 photos of the team enjoying time site seeing near the Lighthouse compound. On day 7 they continued working with the local kids in the VBS afternoon program.
Day 5: The team from Harmony Baptist spent the day serving children in the local community. Part of the day they got to teach a bible lesson and help make craft paper cross with the kids.
You can find more content from Harmony here: Harmony's Instagram
Day 3: A Haitian Church, community, walking and Cable Cars. The team used their first full day in DR day to take in the signs and sounds of the community that they will be working in the rest of the week.
One of our fun nights in fall 2023 for our youth group was to run an escape room. I'm sure that the youth would have been so excited to be locked in a room and told they had to escape, but there might have been some issue with that, (think safety policy) so when we hosted an escape room we focused more on the code breaking and moving through the
