Andrew Mochrie

It is with such a heavy heart that I write this letter. EJ and I have been offered an opportunity to move back to the southeast, Asheville, NC, putting us a lot closer to our family, and we have decided to take it.

As final preparations move into place for our Youth Sunday worship service, this annual event featuring our Youth as leaders of traditional worship now takes on the added role of celebrating the ministry and service of its Director, Andrew Mochrie.

This coming Sunday is Youth Sunday. It’s a day that our youth get the opportunity to lead the congregation in worship.

This week we have two more testimonies from Camp Barnabas! We hope that you enjoy their stories and voices!

We spent last week with 22 of our High School youth out at Camp Barnabas.

We have yet to have an article talking about and celebrating all of the hard work that our youth council has done throughout the last two years. It has existed and diminished at different times in the history of the youth ministry.

This week is our last blog on approaches to youth ministry and we saved the best for last in my opinion. Our idea of youth ministry is greatly wrapped up in cultural assumptions and locations in society.

Let’s continue to redefine what it means to do youth ministry in today’s world. We have talked briefly about both instructional and interpretive approaches.