Parents

Our mission: The Student Ministries of Faith Baptist Church exist to bring glory to God by winning people to Jesus Christ, equipping them to be more faithful disciples, and assisting parents in raising godly teens.

Philosophy of Ministry: We believe the teen years are designed to help students grow in the faith-journey, learn how to respectfuly and effectively relate and serve alongside adults, and begin to make a significant impact in their world for God’s glory. What we hope to produce in each teen’s life is listed on the“Key Characteristic's" page.

Ministry Leaders:

• Andy Woodall serves as the Pastor of Student Ministries. Andy has been married to his wife Julie since 1994, has four children, and has served on staff at Faith since Sept., 1999.
  Contact: awoodall@fbclafayette.org.
  
• Jason and Nicole Hume have two children and have served as leaders of the Journey Ministry since 1999. Jason is also the CFO of Faith Ministries and has served as a deacon at Faith. Dr. Nicole Hume has her PH.D. from Purdue and teaches Chemistry at Faith Christian School. Contact: jhume@fbclafayette.org or nhume@fcslafayette.org.

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• Journey: Journey- FBC Lafayette
• Impact: Impact- FBC Lafayette

Newsletters: Each week the Journey (grades 6-8)and Impact (grades 9-12) ministries will make available a newsletter for you to get information on upcoming events and ministries. These are available on both the Journey & Impact pages.

Outline of Ministries (Offered to Students): Our Student Ministries are arranged in two sections, 6^th-8^th grade is called “Journey”, and 9^th-12^th grade is called “Impact”. We are helping the younger teens understand their faith-journey and grow in it. As senior high, we then seek to teach them how to impact their world for Christ.

Sunday Morning Classes

• Focus: To teach students how to study God's Word and practically apply the morning sermon through a discussion/study and small groups.
•  Journey (grades 6-8): meets at 9:30 & 11 a.m. in the LOFT in the Community Center
• Impact (grades 9-12): meets at 9:30 a.m. in the Community Center Multi-purpose room and 11 a.m. in the LOFT.  

Wednesday Nights – Legit Bible Study (LBS)

• Focus: Challenging and training teens to be leaders through biblical teaching, applicational activies and serving projects.
• 6:30-8 p.m. Journey students meet in the LOFT. Guys have classes then game time. Girls have activity time, then have classes on leadership.
• 6:30-8 p.m. Impact students have several options. They can serve as a helper in our Wednseday Night Kids of Faith Ministry, take Faith Community Institute (FCI) Classes with adults, or join a Ministry & Serving Team. See the “Impact” webpage for more details.

Saturday Nights – “LIFELINE”

• Focus: Opportunities fo teens (grades 6-12) to build God-honoring friendships through a variety of fun activites.
• 6-8:30 p.m. meet in the L.O.F.T. in Faith Community Center
• We meet most Saturday nights. Occassionally we will go off-site. Watch the calendar for details.

Training for Parents: Our Faith Community Institute (FCI) - offers many valuable classes on Parenting Teens, Parenting, Marriage, and teaching teens on certain topics on Wednseday nights from 6:30-8 p.m. during the school year. Additionally, the preaching and teaching ministries of our church on Sunday mornings in the worship services and in the Adult Bible Fellowships[link] provide great help to parents raising teenagers.

Opportunities to contribute: We love for parents to get involved. We do require church membership and a background check for regular student ministry leaders. However, there are plenty of opportunites for newer parents and others to help out. Three lists are provided below. Contact Pator Andy Woodall if you are interested (448-1986) or awoodall@fbclafayette.org)

         Membership and background check required:

• Sunday morning classes
• Wednesday night Teen Leadership Series (teach, help, games)
• Saturday night Lifeline (assist with activities and build relationships)
• Friday night Family Fun Nights (assist in the LOFT)
• Assist with afterschool in the LOFT

          Other opportunities (membership and check not required):

• Host Lifeline at your house
• Website updates
• Bring snacks for Lifeline
• Arrange serving projects in the community
  

 Financial Contributions: Financial contributions enable us to provide opportunities for students that may not otherwise get to participate. They also enable us to make ministry and facility improvements. Contibutions can be made out to Faith Ministries and put Student Ministries: _____(specific designation). Please contact Pastor Andy Woodall if you would like if you have further questions or plan to make a donation .

• Scholarships for summer camp
• Scholarships summer internships
• Scholarships missions trips
• Scholarships for certain activities
• L.O.F.T. facilites improvements and maintenance
  

Community Service: We all make poor/wrong choices from time to time. We seek to provide quality, meaningful community service for those needing to fulfill legally mandated (CS) and who are willing to commit to learning how to work hard and serve at Faith Ministries.

• Initial meetings usally occur on Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m. with Andy Woodall in the front lobby of the Community Center. A parent or guardian is required at this initial meeting. You must make an appointment by calling or e-mailing the Mon. prior to the Tues. 4 p.m. mtg. (449-4600  or gbutterbrodt@fbclafayette.org) We prefer the one needing CS make the appointment.
• Provided the student and parent (or guardian) agree to outlined “CS Agreement” then the student may set up his/her hours to serve with Gage Butterbrodt @ Faith Communtiy Center (449-4600 or gbutterbrodt@fcmlafayette.org)
• Regulation of Hours: Those serving CS hours may serve up to 4 hours per day and 12 hours per week. This is designed, along with Court Services, to assist those doing community service to learn their lesson and hopefully develop more of a mentaility of giving to the community as opposed to taking from it. Regulating service hours helps shift from a mentility of instant gratification to a life of discipline. During the summer this regulation may vary.
• Hours available for CS:
• M-F (After school unit 10 p.m. – in up to four hour shifts.)
• Sun. (noon-6 p.m.)
• Sat. (8 a.m.-6 p.m.)

Journey

Impact

LOFT

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