Stacey Barry- Y.E.S. Ministry Director
Minister Jack Overstreet - Youth Minister

Y.E.S. Ministry

Youth Empowered to Serve

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Purpose:
SFWBF Y.E.S. Ministry exists to help young people develop personal relationships with God that will empower them to serve others, share the gospel, and affect their world for Jesus Christ.

Motto: Love God. Love People. Help People to love God.

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This purpose statement comes from the same scriptures as the church's purpose statement, but reorganized for youth.

1.       A relationship with God (The Greatest Commandment, Mt 22:36-40) - "Worship" from the SFWBF purpose statement.

2.      Serving others (2nd Great commandment) - "Ministry" from the SFWBF purpose statement.

3.      Share the gospel (The Great Commission, Mt 28:18-20) - "Evangelism" from the SFWBF purpose statement.

4.      Affect their world for Jesus Christ (The Great Commission). - "Discipleship" NOTE: I've broadened this part because we are making disciples of our youth ("teaching them to observe..."). We want them to be disciples first, learners that will be teachers.

Why is this important?  We want to use our purpose as a basis for every program that we have.  This will help us build up programs that fulfil our purpose and cut those that do not.  We want to have activities planned that will fulfill our motto.