Youth at Tom's Creek Baptist Church

Tom's Creek Baptist Youth

Our commitment here at Tom's Creek Baptist Church is to grow spiritually strong young men and women for Jesus Christ by bringing Christian adults and youth together. The interaction should help shape our youth in the areas of Biblical understanding, personal life commitments, and life in the body of Christ. This is a work of the Holy Spirit using the church to equip and train students for His work. For this to happen we provide meeting s designed for the unique needs of teens. Regular contact with God is a must if we are to succeed in the commitment.

Bible Study

Sunday School: Meets every Sunday morning at 9:30 AM for Bible Study! Each class has teachers and assistants who love teenagers. The classes have special projects and events for the students. Sunday School is here at Tom’s Creek Baptist Church with age graded classes. 7th & 8th Grade Boys meet in room 323. 7th & 8th Grade Girls meet in room 324. 9th & 10th coed meet in room 221. 11th & 12th coed meet in room 228.
Immersion: Every Wednesday night at 7:00 PM we meet together at Tom's Creek Family Life Center in the youth room for a special worship service involving worship music, skits, videos, small group interaction (i.e. games and discussion) and, the most important thing, BIBLE STUDY!
Teen Boys' Discipleship Training: 6th through the 12th grade boys meet at 6:00 for to study God’s word on topics relevant to their needs. This group is led by Greg Andrews and Doug Guest. We just began a study on sexual purity. This class meets in the youth room.
Acteens: The Girls in our student ministry meet to focus their attention on needs they have. They meet in room 313 with their teachers Karen Wright and Renée Fowler. Their current study is from a book entitled The Truth About Guys.
Parents of Teens: Parents with teenagers meet on Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM to study various topics as it relates to the family. They meet in room 302.

Missions

Today’s youth are not content to have a meeting and absorb information. They want more out of their walk with God than just more to think about. They want to put their faith in action! This summer here at Tom’s Creek they will have two weeks worth of hands on missions work to do. Faith will be put to the test. In Jesus they will pass!

World Changers: World Changers is a youth mission which stretches our youth out of their comfort zone and into the mission field. This year’s destination is East St. Louis, Missouri. At World Changers we will minister to families in need of vital home repairs. During the week we will reach out with the love of Christ and share our testimonies with the homeowners and whoever will listen for that matter. Each night youth will worship God with music and ministry. Practical hands on acts of love actually earn for us the right to be herd. We hope to see lives changed as a result of this witness. The good thing about World Changers is that it is not just a quick trip and it is over. Our youth have been focused on this trip for over four months by the time we will leave. Prayer, weekly and daily Bible, and evangelism training, are some of the extras that will go in to our preparation for World Changers. The World Changers class meets in the youth room in the Family Life Center. It is too late to sign up for this year’s World Changers trip but the trip is for students 6th –college age and you have to have been a member of the church for six months before you can go in on this year’s mission trip.

If you would like to keep up with the World Changers Mission team via the Internet while they are gone to East saint Louis, follow us this link and check out the Blog, Photos, and Action Cam. You may also us the link to send an E-couragram, and the office staff there will print these out to give to your students on the trip.
Yucatan, Mexico: We are going global for Jesus this summer. This year we will take and international mission trip to Yucatan, Mexico. While there students will share the love of Jesus Christ through various community outreach programs. Noel Marcus, our Pastor’s daughter will be the coordinator for the mission to the Yucatan! This trip is for youth who have finished the 10th grade and older. College age students are encouraged to attend as well. The deadline to sign up is February 1st.
Laguna Beach: This outreach is a trip to the beach. We will encourage youth to invite their friends to go with us on an excursion to Panama City! We will have nightly worship services and morning devotions meant to evangelize and strengthen our teens and their friends.
Youth VBS: Vacation Bible School is Tom’s Creek old faithful outreach program. We offer the youth version of VBS along with what the children are doing. We are eagerly awaiting the big reveal of this year’s VBS theme. Beth Sosby will be our youth VBS coordinator. We will have various speakers, activities, and food during the week. We meet from 6-9 PM from July 5 to the 10th.
Triathlon: The youth ministry will sponsor a three tier race this spring. We will be canoeing, biking, and running for the grand prize of $100 and a trophy. After the festivities we will have a wrap up session where we will minister the Gospel.
Fear Factor: Fear Factor is a ministry night meant to challenge the students to have the fear of God. In the process of the evening we offer various feats of fear challenges. Students who overcome their fear and perform the feats the fastest move on to the next round. We eliminate students until there are only two left for the grand finally! We use media to Boost crowed participation. It is a fun evening of laughter and ministry.
Ag Day: Our church is a rural congregation and many of the youth we have among us are interested in agriculture. What better event to plan for them than an Ag Day. At Ag day we Will have various agriculturally themed events that will encourage youth to come out and join us. Then we will have the opportunity to sit everyone down for a gospel presentation. Ag Day is scheduled for October 31st during our Fall Festival.