Youth at HMC

Power Hour, Cambria's meditation: What are you looking for?

Youth Ministry
Cambria Dyess, Youth Ministry Coordinator

Youth News 

Join us after service for our Youth Power Hour! We’ll be discussing 8 questions about God that you might be scared to ask like, “Does the Bible contradict itself,” and “Does God discriminate against women?” If that sounds interesting to you, head up to the third floor after worship for food, fellowship, and conversation! Power Hour is every Sunday from 11:15 to 12!

Sunday, March 17 is the deadline to submit your deposit for Mission Camp! 

Our youth will be washing graves on Good Friday, March 29, as a service project for families who are not able to. Contact Jane Shore at 336-722-6171 or jshore@homemoravian.org with the names and location of the graves to be washed. All requests for grave washing need to be in the church office by noon on Monday, March 25.

Scripture Meditation

“We know that the law is good, if one uses it properly.” –1 Timothy 1:8  

In Power Hour, we’ve been talking a lot about biblical interpretation and exploring how we can figure out what God’s law as given to us in the Bible means. It’s really tricky to read an ancient text and decipher what that means for our lives today.

We’re bound to get it confused sometimes. That’s when God’s love comes in.

God’s love is central to my faith, so, everything that I read in the Bible is read in the context of that love. The ancient rules that may be confusing to me as a modern reader are used properly when read under the light of God’s love.

I will leave you with a quote from Rachel Held Evans that speaks to this better than I can. 

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate or honor women, you will find them. If you are looking for reasons to wage war, you will find them. If you are looking for reasons to promote peace, you will find them. If you are looking for an outdated, irrelevant ancient text, you will find it. If you are looking for truth, believe me, you will find it. This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not "What does it say?" but "What am I looking for?" I suspect Jesus knew this when he said, "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened." If you want to do violence in this world, you will always find the weapons. If you want to heal, you will always find the balm.
—Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood 

—Cambria

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Below: We made Vision Boards!! We look forward to 2024 and all the things we’re visualizing for our futures! Look at how awesome everyone’s collages are. HMC Youth are a creative bunch.

 

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Game night at the Greene house was a wonderful time! If your family wants to host a youth event, email Cambria at cdyess@homemoravian.org.


Below: The HMC youth got to hang out for a couple of hours at William and Kate’s house. We played volleyball, chess, and jenga and had some amazing burgers! Thank you to the Sanders family for hosting an amazing cookout.


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