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Why bother?
Dont let anyone look down on you because you
are young, but set an example for the believers
in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in
purity. 1 Timothy 412
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What are youth Cells?
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Values based ministry
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Belief -Noun naming word
Value verb doing word
Because Jesus died in my place I commit my
actions, my thoughts and words to him .. In fact
my whole life!
Jesus died in my place
A values based ministry is not reliant upon
context or place it is demonstrated and
communicated through the integrity of our own
lives
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Values based ministry

• Jesus at the centre
• A community of loving accountable relationships
• Every person using their gifts in ministry
• Every person growing
• Every person reaching out

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A suggested Structure

• Welcome
• Worship
• Word
• Witness

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Teacher Instructor
Trainer - friend
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Teaching Training
I am the focus Enable others to be the focus
You learn from me We learn from each other
I bring my best to you We bring out the best in each other
I am important to you We are important to each other
I minister to you We minister to each other
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Teaching Training
I tell We discuss from our experiences
I do it you see it I model - then you do then I give feedback
You learn from what I say I provide the environment where we can learn from each other
I teach from my experience I provide opportunities for you to experience
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Why wait?

• The search for community is a quest for values
  to heal a fragmented humanity. In leadership,
  hierarchies are being flattened the corporation
  style church, which we are cloning, cannot birth
  this transformational vision because they have no
  investment in context or place. We are looking
  for community. It is a new wineskin. The bottom
  line is that people want to belong they want to
  deal with this unconnectedness Phillips and
  Okholm, Christian Apologetics in a Post-Modern
  World , (IVP) quoted in, Hickford A, Essential
  Youth (Carlisle Spring Harvest Publishing and
  Authentic Lifestyle, 2003), p107

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So are they too young to be Church?
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Questions.. Comments.. observations
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