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CSPC YOUTH MINISTRY –  CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Mission Statement

The purpose of the CSPC Youth Ministry is to produce thriving, fruitful disciples among the children of our church by engaging and encouraging their personal relationships with Jesus Christ, their role and responsibility to the greater CSPC community and believers everywhere, and their responsibility to the unbelieving world.

Goals and Objectives:

•       Whether a child comes from birth or at age 17, our primary responsibility to them is to introduce Jesus Christ to them in a way that is engaging and relevant to their developmental stage.

•       Understand that the CSPC Youth Ministry plays a secondary role to the child's parent in the spiritual development of the child and engages and equips parents accordingly.

•       Carefully and systematically teach a biblical framework that will ground the child in their faith long after they leave our ministry.

•       Rally the greater CSPC body around each child; establishing rites of passage (i.e. baptism, communion) , and creating for the child a sense that they belong to a "family of believers."

•       In ways that are appropriate to their psychological and spiritual stage in life, create and offer opportunities for each child to minister to both their fellow believers as well as unbelievers.

Recommended Reading for our Kids:

ages 2-4
1. God Knows my Name by Debby Anderson

2.What is God Like? by Kathleen Long Bostrom
and lots of others by Little Blessings

ages 3 and up

1. The Berenstain Bears: God Loves You by Stan and Jan Berenstain (published by Zonderkids)

2.The Berenstain Bears: Say Their Prayers by Stand and Jan Berenstain (published by Zonderkids)

3.The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally LLoyd-Jones (published by Zonderkids)

4.Adventure Bibles StoryBook byCatherine DeVries (published by Zonderkids)

5. The Squire and the Scroll by Jennie Bishop (published by Warner Press Kids)

6, Will God's Mighty Warrior by Sheila Walsh (published by Thomas Nelson)

7. i'd Be Your Hero: A royal tale of Godly Character by Kathryn O'Brien (published by Standard publishing)

For other resources, you can also google the publishers listed for other godly character building books.

We will try to update the list as often as we find other great books.