Five Two Youth exists to REACH unbelieving students with the gospel of Christ, to DRAW them into the family of God, and to GROW God’s children to spiritual maturity so that they can SERVE others and GLORIFY our Lord.

PHILOSOPHY

We see youth ministry as an extension of the parents' work of training up their children in the  ways of the Lord.  While the parents are responsible for the spiritual instruction of their students, we hope to reinforce the positive values that they teach at home and work as a team to equip our youth for successful Christian living.

OUR NAME

In the sixth chapter of John's gospel, Jesus performed a miracle using the simple offerings of a young boy.  A crowd followed Jesus out to a remote shore of Galilee and he determined to provide the entire group of 5,000 men (+ women and children) with their evening meal.  To demonstrate the impossibility of this task, he asked Philip to go about feeding the people.  Philip responded "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"  And the best that the disciples could come up with was a young boy who had brought 5 small loaves and 2 fish for his lunch.  It was that inadequate gift from a willing boy that Jesus used to perform the miracle.  He didn't have the skilled fishermen catch fish for everyone, nor ask for an offering from the multitude, but Jesus looked to a boy who was willing to give up whatever he had for the Master to use.  This is the attitude that we hope to instill in our teens; that God can do far beyond our imagining when we offer him our insufficient all.