Neighborhood Youth Club
Building relationships with local kids is one of the most rewarding ways to impact lives with the gospel and one of the most effective ways to impact an urban neighborhood for the long-haul. So, we’re excited for this exciting new opportunity God has given us to love and serve our young neighbors: a neighborhood Youth Club!
What’s “Youth Club” all about?
It’s about the kids. It’s about relationships. It’s about Jesus. It’s about building community for and with our younger neighbors. It’s about caring for spiritual needs. It’s about caring for spiritual needs (embracing and growing in the gospel). It’s about caring for all-of-life needs (tutoring, life skills, sports, food). It’ll be based out of the Columbia Heights Community Center on 14th and Girard, but overflowing into our local churches and daily lives. The Youth Club is a collaborative ministry, a partnership between neighborhood churches (The District Church, Park Road Community Church, and Grace Meridian Hill) and the Columbia Heights Youth Club, which has served our city’s kids for over half a century. We’ve begun “setting the stage” to launch this new opportunity — dreaming, relationship-building, discussion, prayer, and a whole lot of following God’s providence — but now we’d like to invite you to help build this ministry with your ideas, your lives, and your prayers!
Interested? Want More Info?
There are a wide variety of ways people with different personalities and gifts can love on our neighborhood kids. Love hanging with kids? Not sure you’re great with young people but still committed to extending yourself into their lives? There are plenty of “connecting” opportunities for you! Short on time or intimidated by kids? No problem, there are critical “supporting” and “praying” roles for you:
- Connecting :: Spend time building relationships with kids via social activities, attending football games, Bible studies, starting classes (nutrition, reading, life skills, art/music), or other creative approaches that you come up with!
- Supporting :: Serve youth in a more “behind-the-scenes” capacity, preparing meals for different events, putting together fundraisers, helping with administrative functions, putting up flyers on local bulletin boards, etc.
- Praying :: Commit to praying for the kids and the Youth Club on a regular basis – criticial for this ministry to be fruitful!
