It’s back to school time again!!
If you are like me I am sure you can hardly believe that the summer break is already over. I know we have a few students getting to hold on to a couple more days of break but inevitably in the next week or so EVERYONE will be back in school!! While back to school time can prove to be an anxious, and unsettling time for many students and especially for parents it has always been an exciting time for me as your youth minister. Back to school for many students’ means a fresh start or a renewed commitment to Church. I have seen this every year as I have served in student ministry but this year has been extra special. This summer as our youth served as missionaries in the heat and humidity of New Orleans, LA God grew an amazing family bond between them all and they came back to Conyers truly connected and forever changed. As they return to school none of them are the same as they left last May. Some have a new heart for missions and are committed to make their schools their number one mission field and others are new believers who are committed to share their newfound understanding of Jesus Christ with other lost friends.
God is blessing our Youth Group so richly that I can not begin to tell you all of the amazing things that we are seeing happen. Just a snapshot includes over 65+ students and parents sharing dinner together and praying for each other the night before school started back and our first Chic Fil A Prayer breakfast last Wednesday where we literally filled up half of the restaurant with students and parent who came to pray together, and the list goes on and on.
Would you be willing to be apart of the amazing things that God is doing in the lives of our students in this back to school season? First of all we need EVERYONE to PRAY! Please pray everyday for our students, their parents, and teachers. Secondly ask God how you can help and contact me about that. We always need drivers for prayer breakfast and people willing to buy bibles for youth who need them. Finally will you simply find one of our youth in the hallways of the Church and let them know how much you love them and that they are on you heart?
It is such an amazing honor to serve this great Church!
Rev. Andrew Covington
Associate Minister
Youth and Contemporary Worship
The First United Methodist Church
921 North Main Street
Conyers, Georgia 30012
770-483-4236 x.115
