The Youth Mentoring Program pairs each middle school and high school student with an adult for a year to explore what it means to be a Christian.
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The Youth Mentoring Program pairs each middle school and high school student with an adult for a year to explore what it means to be a Christian. |
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 Children | Youth Middle School Youth Sunday School Education Our middle school youth are also using Seasons of the Spirit curriculum as they become more familiar with moving toward adulthood and our sacred stories. Meet on the top floor at the Meeks house across the street. To learn more about the Season's of the Spirit curriculum we are using visit www.spiritseasons.com. High School Youth and Young Adults School Education Our senior high youth and young adults are participating together in a discussion- based forum of learning and sharing. Meet in the conference room on the second floor of the house. Youth Acolyte Program Children and youth are invited to serve as acolytes each Sunday. As acolytes the children and youth are worship leaders and begin the worship service by lighting the candles. At the service's conclusion the acolyte carries the light out to symbolize all who go as light of the world bringing in the light of God's presence. We provide training for interested children and youth. Youth Mentoring Program Covenant's deacons launched the Youth Mentoring Program in 1991. The program pairs each middle school and high school student with an adult for a year to explore what it means to be a Christian and what it means to be a part of Covenant. Covenant Youth Activities Bowling  Advent Celebration  All Church Retreat  Trip to Austin  Art Car Carwash and Picnic  The great end in religious instruction is: Not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; Not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; Not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; Not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; Not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; Not to burden the memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought; Not to impose religion upon them in the form of arbitrary rules, but to awaken the conscience, the moral discernment. In a word, the great end is to awaken the soul, to excite and spiritual life." --William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) 'What message have you for young people?' asked Carl Stern of NBC in concluding a television interview with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel shortly before his death. Rabbi Heschel replied, 'Let them remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every deed counts, that every word has power, and that we all can do our share to redeem the worldin spite of all absurdities and all frustrations, and all disappointments. And above all, [let them] remember…to build a life as if it were a work of art.'" --Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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