Belsky: Church Youth Group Analysis

The Church I selected to evaluate is called Parkview Christian Church. Furthermore, both Churches before their inception the founder's sort guidance from God above to reach people for Christ. The concept of the Tinley Park Church of Christ (currently name Parkview Christian Church) originated in 1948 with two women on a train headed to Chicago. These two women discussed and prayed about how they could be a part of God’s plan to implement the lords work in their community. Later, after they arrive at their destination started a prayer assembly that kept expanding. Consequently, due to their increase in membership on “April 15, 1951” they formed a storefront church called Tinley Park Church of Christ (currently Parkview Christian Church). Moreover,

From the Project Director’s experience, it is common to hear and feel a sense of gratitude and positive pride that Lenexa Baptist Church (LBC) is an excellent church from both leaders and the small group setting participants. Any faults found are minor and pale in comparison to many of the issues a church could face. LBC is a regional church with multiple campus locations strategically selected for maximum impact to reach Kansas City with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the Introduction section of the book, The Hidden Lives of Congregations, Israel Galindo states that a congregation is a “corporate relationship organization” (3) and is not an organization. He points out that the hidden life of a congregation would depict the “nature” of a congregation. This further identifies the relationships and faith of the congregation. According to him, the universal principles are followed by the congregations so that “systemic relationships” can work. The leaders learn the roles that they have within the people who are the congregation. The journal will focus on Dr. Fowler’s question “what is the purpose of this gathering we call the church?”

Red Rocks Church (RRC) is a non-denominational church located in multiple locations throughout the Denver-Metro area. Red Rocks strives to be one church in many places with campuses in Golden, Lakewood, Littleton, Denver, and Arvada. Red Rocks’ first campus, where it originally started, is located in Golden, Colorado. The church’s mission statement says that their prime objective is, “…to make Heaven more crowded, by welcoming prodigals home.”

Both Victor and his creation suffer internally from the ridicule of society. Victor has always been a family man, and was interested in learning. Eventually, Victor would find himself in a prominent institute where he becomes obsessed with creating life. To give more insight, Telgen Diane explains “Readers get the distinct feeling that Victor's inquisitive nature causes his emotional and physical peril because he cannot balance his intellectual and social interactions. For instance, when he leaves home to attend the University of Ingolstadt, he immerses himself in his experiment and forgets about the family who lovingly supported him throughout his childhood” (Diane 188). His family was very prominent and were on the top of society. Internally

Nathanael is one of the most dubious, mysterious and hazy characters out of every one of the twelve apostles. When looking through the literature available one must find his or her focus on the Gospel according to John in Chapter 1:43-51. It is safe to say that we were only given one vivid story to put some flesh to the personality of Nathanael. This is very different from the other apostles, be it they have very

In 1844 a draper in London named George Williams began to see more and more young men get into hard times because they had nowhere to go and be safe from everything that was going on around them. So, with the help of other drapers, George Williams developed a place where these young men could go and not only be safe, but learn about God. They developed the Youth Men’s Christian Association. With the efforts of its founder George Williams, the YMCA is now one of the biggest charitable youth organizations in the world. George Williams once said, “My lifelong experience as a businessman, and as a Christian worker among young men, has taught me that the only power in this world that can effectually keep one from sin, in all the varied and often attractive forms … is that which comes from an intimate knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as a present Saviour.” This quote tells the reader that George Williams was not interested in making a profit, but instead was interested in teaching young men the rights from the wrong and how to follow Jesus Christ.

For this assignment the group that I observed was the Churches Touching Lives of Christ Bible study located at W Ave G Temple, TX 76504.The bible study group was small, it consisted of six adult group members in total. Each individual person had their own uniqueness about themselves and their contribution to the group. The leader of the group was a slender Asian male in his late forty’s who was well spoken and maintained order in the group while still delivering a short sermon to the group. Whenever a person would speak out of turn he would let them speak and when they were done he would publicly correct them and tell the other adult group members that they should wait their turn to speak and if they have a

The Trinity Lutheran Church is preschool and daycare center, this organization is open whole year to help working families. The Trinity Lutheran Church located in Boone County, Missouri. The territory of church has a children’s playground, which surrounded by pea gravel. Due to the fact that kids are young and may injure themselves if they fall on hard pea gravel, the Trinity Church sent application to take part in program to replace the pea gravel on recycled tires to upgrade playgrounds. Whereupon their application got denied. As a result of which the church seek legal redress in a lower court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit where it got denied second time based on Constitution of Missouri that says that no public finding can go to religious

On Friday, June 5th, Megan Crews and I attended a community support group meeting at New Horizon Church of Christ. This meeting was a for teens and young adults that were experiencing issues of emotional abuse, substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression, co-dependency, and anything else that was causing them struggles. The Landing (what this group is called), is a daughter program of Celebrate Recovery, which has been helping people in different communities for 20 years. This collection of groups is faith based and helps the whole family, not just the individual experiencing the problem. It is set up as a fifty-two week program, based on principles that Jesus shared in the Sermon on the Mount. They use a 12-step program model using Jesus Christ as their focus and not psychological theory. There are over 20,000 programs in churches around the world. The programs have also had great success being used in the prison system. Since the beginning of these programs, many people have found peace and healing from their issues, hurts, and habits.

Gary United Methodist Church is a small congregation of less than fifty members with an average worship attendance of ten or less. The congregational leaders, known as the administrative council, are looking for ways to increase attendance, which has been dwindling over the last few decades, and find new ways to engage in mission work in their small northern Minnesota community of less than 3,000. A decrease in employment opportunities over the last thirty years and the shutdown of two major employers in the town have led to the mass exiting of families with children. The town has several properties that are either condemned or dilapidated. Recently their schools combined with a neighboring town to offset the lack of enrollment and suspend the closing of both sets of schools.

The Franklin Road Church of Christ youth group consists of youth of all ages. The group is divided into three subgroups: Tots for Christ (TFC), Kids for Christ (KFC), and the Senior Youth Group (SYG). In particular, for this essay I will be explaining how the Senior Youth Group is a discourse community. Franklin Road’s SYG consists of the ages 11-18. Within the group we do various things such as going to youth retreats, youth conferences, and many more; just to name a few. The group has been around for many years, all the way back to when my parents were kids. I have been a member of SYG ever since I was a baby; therefore I have enough knowledge about how this group in fact is a discourse community according to John Swales six criteria.

“Parachurch organizations are Christian faith-based organizations that usually carry out their mission independent of church oversight. The prefix para is Greek for besides, or alongside.Most parachurch organizations, at least those normally called parachurch, are Protestant and Evangelical.” ("List of parachurch organizations", 2018)A parachurch community that I have seen that meets the characteristics of a church would include Christian programs that are geared towards helping individuals grow spiritually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically and tend to the whole individual. The para church community had the leading of the Holy Spirit and “members look to God for salvation, healing, deliverance from evil, and adoption into the family of God, while seeking after God with all their hearts, minds, and souls”

Back in 2003, I volunteered as a facilitator on a summer retreat for Catholic teens. This was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, so attendees were from all walks of life; they were from different demographics, socio-economic levels, ethnicities, etc. I headed a session on social injustice, particularly prejudice and stereotypes and how to combat it as a Catholic teenager in today’s society. The session began by leading the teens in a poster exercise. There were a series of posters hung on each of the walls. Each poster had the name of a specific ethic group. The teenagers were put into random small groups and were instructed to write down on each poster different stereotypes and prejudices associated with that particular

Since the day I was born my parents took my sister and me to church ever Sunday. I grew up in a loving Christian home and was encouraged at an age where I could fully understand, to purse a relationship with Jesus. I accepted Christ into my heart when I was in the second grade and was baptized in the fourth grade at age 10. Growing up I have always been super involved in Church. I have a heart for people and love serving. Since 3rd grade until now, my senior year of high school I have been on the leadership team with my youth group. I can not imagine my life without Jesus as the center. I have been pushed to step out of my comfort zone and because of that I have grown in several different ways. For example, I am an extrovert and enjoy getting new people, but never liked public speaking as I felt nervous and intimidated. By the many adult leaders, and pastors coming along side of me and encouraging me to step of on my comfort zone I now highly enjoy speaking and spreading the truth about The Lord in big groups of people. I am so thankful for the many God loving people that have come in my life and helped stretch me. Jesus is my entire life and I am nothing without him.