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Philosophy of Ministry

Purpose Statement
Biblical Imperatives and Core Values
Vision Statement
Description of a Discipled Student

tore up for yourselves (warehouse) treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

WAREHOUSE Youth Ministry exists to glorify God by REACHING unsaved students with the gospel and by BUILDING believing students and staff into authentic, mature, reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ.

Community:
WYM seeks to develop a community that spends time together developing deep open relationships where we are able to encourage one another and hold one another accountable.

Reaching Out:
WYM seeks to be a community that expresses its faith in witness and service to those outside of the church body.

Adoration:
WYM seeks to establish a Trinitarian focus among its members–toward God the Father, Son, and Spirit–that manifests itself in all we do whether singing, praying, learning, or serving.

Teaching:
WYM seeks to instruct its students regarding the full record of God's Word in its historical and orthodox expression.

Expression:
WYM seeks to develop a community that expresses its faith through witness and service to those within the church body.

Inter-Generational Crossover:
WYM seeks to create situation where students interact with adults of varied ages. Interaction with spiritually mature adults is necessary for Christian students to mature into healthy Christian adults. Adults of varied ages provide different insights and, thereby, more effectively meet the varied needs of a teen while being a part of his/her extended Christian family.

Making Mature Disciples:
WYM seeks to meet students at their level of spiritual maturity in order to facilitate and encourage further spiritual maturation with the goal of mobilizing them for ministry.

Prayer:
WYM seeks to develop a strong prayer base composed of members of Trinity Bible. It is only through personal prayer that our hearts will be tuned to God’s, and it is through the prayers of others that we be will strengthened and encouraged.

Acceptance:
WYM seeks to develop an atmosphere that welcomes all students, and to create a culture in which they are immediately accepted. Since every teen is valuable in God’s eyes, they too should be valuable in our eyes.

Contacting:
Teens are skeptical of adults and leaders. Therefore, it is essential that leadership spend time with students outside of the formal group setting to show that both they and their faith are genuine. It is in this setting that the most profitable times of ministry occur.

Team Ministry:
A ministry which revolves around the gifts and abilities of one leader is doomed to fail. The Youth Pastor must be seen as a visionary, a motivator, an equipper, and a team developer. The real ministry, however, will only happen as teen and adult leaders pool their gifts and abilities and function as a team, encouraging one another, praying for one another and accountable to one another.

Student Leadership:
Teens are capable of having an impact on their high schools with the gospel by inviting unsaved teens to WAREHOUSE, building relationships, and sharing the gospel message and testimony. In addition, teens are capable of helping other teens become secure, reproducing disciples.

We dream of a youth ministry where. . .

. . .all teens feel valued regardless of their social, financial, or spiritual status and feel free to ask any question.

. . . unbelieving students are challenged to place their faith in Christ as Savior.

. . . students are growing in their relationship with God, serving others, and dynamically leading their peers to spiritual maturity.

. . . the full record of God's Word is presented in a culturally relevant way.

. . . teens have meaningful relationships with people of varied ages in the body of Christ.

. . . ministry is viewed as something that occurs outside the walls of the church as well as within them.

. . . students learn to passionately worship God together and with the entire church body.

. . . teens sacrificially serve others.

It is our goal that when a student has been discipled through the WAREHOUSE youth ministry, they will be a Christian who...

. . . knows, worships, and loves his/her God.

. . . has a love for others that leads to sacrificial service.

. . . has a passion to see God affect the world in which he/she lives.

. . . has an authentic faith he/she is reproducing in others.

. . . loves Scripture and has a working understanding of it so that they can study it.

. . . knows what he/she believes, why he/she believes it, is able to defend it, and live it.

. . . has an understanding of and appreciation for the spiritual heritage of the church.

. . . is a Spirit filled and led Christian.