Club56 for 5th and 6th graders is OFFICIALLY underway! We had a great kickoff last Wednesday night at East Campus talking about our theme for this year, “God Gives Us”. 

Our theme is really important. It drives the entire program each night and focuses our attention on one thing or person that we believe God gives to us. My hope is through engaging God’s word and each other, we’ll be able to see that all of life is God’s gift to us. This next year we’ll talk about how God gives us family, God gives us friends, God gives us school, and so on. Tonight we will talk about how God gives us community, and drive home the point about the importance of building community through small groups.

One thing that I’m very excited about is the potential to get into hard conversations about life through this theme. In a way, we can see that God gives us school (to use that example), but why is it that not EVERYONE around the world gets the same access to the sort of schools that God gives us? I think that these questions about the REAL world is just the sort of questions that need to be asked if we want our students to challenge students to follow Jesus.

Join us at Club56 on Wednesdays at 6:30pm – 8pm at East Campus!