As I make my transition this summer from the Student Ministries team to the Adult Ministries team at NMC, I thought I would take some time to share a few parting thoughts with the parents of the preteens and teens at NMC from my 10 years of experience in youth ministry at Nappanee Missionary Church...
NMC Parents: You have a resource at your disposal in the Student Ministries program and staff at Nappanee Missionary Church that is 2nd to none. Many of you understand this and thus do everything within your power to make sure that your student(s) squeezes every last ounce out of the opportunities that NMC offers in its Student Ministries program.
On the other hand, many other parents appear to not get this and remain oblivious to this fact thus allowing their student(s) to totally miss out on all that God could be doing in their life. This has been one of my biggest frustrations in the 10 years I’ve been doing youth ministry at NMC. Many parents, from other churches, would die (figuratively speaking, of course) for their child(ren) to have the same opportunities that the NMC Student Ministries can give your student(s).
There are two verses from Scripture that come to my mind as I share this with you:
- Mark 6:4 – “Jesus said to them, ‘Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor.
- Luke 12:48b – “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
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