New Vision for 2013!

If you currently attend the Young Adult Community at Hope Church you may have heard of the exciting changes that will be taking place in January 2013. Since the launch of the ministry in 2009 our vision has been, "to be a Christ-centered community for young adults." We reached out to the 20 something age group at Hope and we met on Sunday mornings at 11:15.

Early in 2012 we sensed God leading us to launch a new vision in 2013. The primary focuses of this new vision is, "to reach young adults in Memphis and develop disciples who bear much fruit." John 15:8 says, "This is to my Father's glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be my disciples." This verse is the catalyst for our new vision.

Tuesday Nights: Part of the change in the vision is to create a new, dynamic worship experience for young adults all over Memphis. This new worship experience will launch on January 22, 2013. Our goal is to provide engaging authentic worship with powerful and passionate messages that will spur us on towards growth in Christ. Pastor Issac Curry will be preaching our first series, "Under New Management: Living the Life God Intends For Me." We will go hang out somewhere near by afterwards.

Our reach will also expand to now be geared towards the 20 and 30 something's all over Memphis!

Discipleship is our goal and to do this we will be launching a bunch of new discipleship groups that are intended to be more in depth groups. These will begin to launch in February. We hope that these groups will facilitate deeper relationships in community and especially growth in people's faith that they would develop as disciples of Christ who would in turn help make more disciples by investing their lives in the lives of others.

Sunday's at Hope the young adults will be sitting together in the main service at 11:15 at Hope. We'll be in the far right, very front section, down by where the pastor's sit. Then we will go to lunch afterwards!

The purpose of this blog is to be a place that we post different devotional type messages, we will ask different people who attend the young adult community and people in the various discipleship groups if they'd like an opportunity to write up a post of something God is showing them or teaching them. So this blog will be made up by other young adults that way we can stay connected spiritually through out the week. Hopefully it will be a source of encouragement and way to build up your faith.

Getting involved with this new vision will be made easy through the different teams we are developing to help run the ministry. We have a greeter team, follow up team, coffee team, hospitality team, lighting team, data entry team, video/powerpoint team, and worship team. If you would like to be involved through serving in any of these ways or have questions, email Molly@hopepres.com

We are looking forward to what God is going to do in our city and in our generation in 2013! Please be praying with us and helping us get the word out. Invite some friends to our opening night on Tuesday Jan 22nd!!

~molly