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NYST 2009: Youth in the End Times

Thank and praise God for His wonderful guidance! Sixty-four youths from around the country attended the NYST 2009 in Pacifica from July 10th to July 12th. Throughout the three days, we heard messages from Pr. Vuthy and Pr. Liang, as well as spent quality time in prayer, fellowship, and group sharing. We hope the participants were greatly edified and strengthened in their servitude. We also pray that all the youth coordinators can effectively mobilize their fellowships to serve God faithfully in the end times.

Pr. Vuthy focused on the topic: Returning to God from Idols in the End Time. Through his classes, we soberly examined the idols that we often overlook. The idols in our lives may include our career, school, spouse, children, and even ourselves. Anything that we place before God, including entertainment, false doctrines, marrying outside the church, will cause us to stumble in our servitude. As we learned from the seven churches in Revelations: a church that loses her first love eventually grows lukewarm, begins to compromise, turns corrupt, and becomes dead. Let us hold fast to our convictions, not falling into this trap, but return to God with repentance motivated by His love.

Pr. Liang focused on the topic: Serving the Living and True God in the End Time. After understanding Jesus' commission and our church's identity in the last days, we ought to transcend a life of futility to serve our wonderful Lord. Through the parables of servitude in the letters to the Corinthians, we learned many aspects of serving God. As we serve, we must become farmers, wise builders, athletes, soldiers, ambassadors, fathers, and stewards. To finish the race in our servitude, we need to be constantly filled with God's love.

May the Lord continue to guide us and have mercy on us!

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Downloads:
The audio files of the messages delivered at NYST2009 can be downloaded at the link below. Unfortunately, we discovered most of the files are incomplete after the fact. These files start roughly 30 minutes into that session. We sincerely apologize for this oversight.

http://elizabethtjc.org/nyst2009/

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In addition, please download the attached PDF file to access the different plans and ideas our local youth/campus fellowships hope to implement in the near future. Let's continue to pray for one another and for the will of God to be done. May He establish the work of our hands.

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Launch of the TJC NYM Website!

Hallelujah and thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ we have launched the initial release of the National Youth Ministry website on July 25th, 2009. Without Him none of this would be possible.

Please feel free to direct any questions, comments or concerns to nym@tjc.org.

God Bless!

-Website Team-

Service to God

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1)

Have you ever been delightfully surprised by unexpected encounters with works of nature? Coming up on a hill to be greeted by a waterfall, walking through a field filled with wild flowers or chancing upon a patch of shrubs bursting with berries in a forest? Often, these beauties of nature are discovered in hidden places only by those who trod the paths less traveled. These beauties bloom and display their glory even though the chances are that no one will know they even exist.

These works of nature gives us a good Christian lesson. We have heard much about the teaching to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. However, when we talk about serving God today, what comes to mind are what we do in church. Almost by default, service to God is equated with the visibility and the amount of church work we do. We place importance on work with conspicuity or “titles” at the expense of the hidden works. The amount of church work done is misconceived as correlated with one’s spirituality and with whether one is a living sacrifice to God.

To present our bodies a living sacrifice is not only about participating in church duties. A living sacrifice is actually a much harder service. It entails keeping oneself pure in spirit and in conduct, leading a life pleasing to God, and being in favor also with man (cf Lk 2:52). It’s something we have to do 24/7. It’s about blooming and producing fruit even if no one ever notices, because God is the one we are serving.

To live as a living sacrifice is to shine forth God’s light no matter if people are watching and in all circumstances. We have to carry God’s light in good times as well as in bad times. Whether we are enjoying material wealth or in poverty, whether life is stable or in much insecurity and uncertainty, we need to remember to make each day a service to God.

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