- We want to be relevant to the lives of the teenagers.
- We want to live the love of Christ.
- We want to reach out to those who need friends and who need the
Gospel. - We want to have fun, laugh together, cry together and be there for
each other. - We want to organize events that the youths enjoy.
- We want to encourage teenagers to follow Christ with all their heart.
Youth
It is indeed once again nothing but our God's mercy that I am being able to great you all in our new year of 2013.I'd like to give you an overview of how our NGLC youth group has been during 2012.Our youth has a steering committee that was formed at the beginning of 2012 if not mistaken, to try and make things much easier when it comes to leadership side instead of having only one person to take charge over alone, though we still have one same person that is mainly overseeing all the youth group functioning. At the beginning of last year the issue of setting a suitable day for youth meetings was still seriously debatable amongst youth members, but eventually an agreement to live Sundays as the most suitable one for us all was then made.
Meetings were then held as anticipated, but somehow in between the first half of the year started not to be as regular and much benefiting as we all would have loved them to be due to some challenges faced. This all led into lack of attendance, a split into leadership committee itself etc. Having noticed a problem our pastor and some of the church members intervened as this really was a concern for all of us.
After our church elders including our council had closely perused this matter, a decision was then finally made to bring a woman that has been nothing but a breath refiller and inspiration into our youth group's life( Laurence Thom) on board as she was and is still eager to be part of us!!We then started to gain strength and flew up on wings like eagles as “we" young people had stumbled and fell but nevertheless gained strength. Isaiah 40 as reference. Since the 2nd half things got back to normal and our meeting was even more exciting as we also have even increased from our normal expected attendance of around 15 to around 20 upwards!!
To also touch a bit on last year's Rüstwoche experience, it would be a huge mistake not to point out what NGLC youth had contributed especially into making an outreach change hundreds of people's lives around visited Elandskraal areas. The main camp leader (Udo Lütge) also made his thankfulness feeling clearly to us, though this was not at all about us, but for the man upstairs!!He (Udo) also pointed out two young men that he felt might be having pastoring calling, of which one those guys in from this church!!
We just want to thank you for your great financial support during the year which made all our planned activities a success. But before passing to my final words I'd like to thank everyone from our congregation who has directly and indirectly contributed into making last year such a faith filling one for us as a youth, we pray hoping that even greater Godly things would be revealed through us in future.
Lastly, this year we planning on separating our youth meeting into at least two different groups, as Laurence and myself have both felt that we now consist of a big group of young people that are at a big age difference. By so doing we still hope and pray that the greatness, mightiness, his splendour and his majesty would still be a cornerstone for us all as we hungrily en route to fulfilment of his kingdom.
Best Regards
Lindani Handsome Ntshangase
Meetings were then held as anticipated, but somehow in between the first half of the year started not to be as regular and much benefiting as we all would have loved them to be due to some challenges faced. This all led into lack of attendance, a split into leadership committee itself etc. Having noticed a problem our pastor and some of the church members intervened as this really was a concern for all of us.
After our church elders including our council had closely perused this matter, a decision was then finally made to bring a woman that has been nothing but a breath refiller and inspiration into our youth group's life( Laurence Thom) on board as she was and is still eager to be part of us!!We then started to gain strength and flew up on wings like eagles as “we" young people had stumbled and fell but nevertheless gained strength. Isaiah 40 as reference. Since the 2nd half things got back to normal and our meeting was even more exciting as we also have even increased from our normal expected attendance of around 15 to around 20 upwards!!
To also touch a bit on last year's Rüstwoche experience, it would be a huge mistake not to point out what NGLC youth had contributed especially into making an outreach change hundreds of people's lives around visited Elandskraal areas. The main camp leader (Udo Lütge) also made his thankfulness feeling clearly to us, though this was not at all about us, but for the man upstairs!!He (Udo) also pointed out two young men that he felt might be having pastoring calling, of which one those guys in from this church!!
We just want to thank you for your great financial support during the year which made all our planned activities a success. But before passing to my final words I'd like to thank everyone from our congregation who has directly and indirectly contributed into making last year such a faith filling one for us as a youth, we pray hoping that even greater Godly things would be revealed through us in future.
Lastly, this year we planning on separating our youth meeting into at least two different groups, as Laurence and myself have both felt that we now consist of a big group of young people that are at a big age difference. By so doing we still hope and pray that the greatness, mightiness, his splendour and his majesty would still be a cornerstone for us all as we hungrily en route to fulfilment of his kingdom.
Best Regards
Lindani Handsome Ntshangase
