Something has to change!

"We are in the middle of a battle for the hearts of a whole generation. If you are like most youth leaders in America, you are in the trenches every day. You're wearing yourself out trying to do whatever you can to love kids, lead them to Christ, and help them grow. Even with all that's done in the name of youth ministry, we are still losing a generation. It seems like the media and the enemy have been working harder than we have. They are destroying a generation at a faster rate than we are rescuing it. At current rates of evangelism, only four percent of this generation will be Bible-believing Christian adults. If we continue doing youth ministry the way we have been, we will end up with an America unlike any we have ever known. Something has to change..." Ron Luce, President and Founder of Teen Mania Ministries

I encourage you to begin to dream God's dream for our youth ministry. I believe if we all throw our hearts into this, work hard, work smart, and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us, we can win this war. We need to have drastic change in the way we do ministry, in our worship and specially, in our relationship with Jesus, Himself. It has to start now...it has to start with us. I believe we can do it. Are you with me??

His and yours

Carlos Tavares, Youth Pastor