Parent Newsletter | Grade 6-8

Welcome to 2024! We have a lot planned for this year and we are excited to start it off with a "Dude Perfect" style games night, all planned out by our co-op student Mitch Gordon! He has been diligently working alongside me since September and will wrap up his time here towards the end of January. He has done a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes and has been involved in the planning and setting up of almost every event that has happened through Compass Students, so if you get the chance, please give him a big thank you! 

 

We have a lot planned for our students, all of which we make intentional, so that they can experience and know God's love on a deeper level. From retreats, to baptisms, service opportunities, and everything else in between, we have faith that God is going to do great things in our student's lives this year. 

 

If you have any questions or concerns about anything, please don't hesitate to reach out. 

 

Tymon

Interim Director of Student Ministry

Compass Students

Junior High Students (grade 6-8) meet in the youth room upstairs at our Orangeville site during both services. Watch for the dismissal slide on the screen after the worship portion of the service and head upstairs to the youth room via the front foyer stairs. Together, they’ll learn from an age appropriate teaching and be released to return downstairs at the end of the service.

 

Junior High Students also meet on Sunday's at our Shelburne site at 10am and follow the same procedure, where a dismissal slide on the screen after worship appears. Both sites use the same curriculum and are on the same schedule so that whether you attend a service in Shelburne one week and Orangeville the next, your student doesn't miss out on the teaching.

 

There will be no Junior High Class on Feb 19, Mar 10 or Mar 31 and instead, students are welcome to join the main services in the auditorium or cafe.

We are beyond excited to say that we have Rebecca Eggert who will be leading this new series for our Junior High's! Many of the students will know her as one of our Sunday Junior High teachers, so we are very grateful that she is stepping into this role as well!

Take a deep breath. Count to ten. Unclench your jaw. Close your eyes. (Or don't, since you're trying to read). You've probably learned a trick or two like this to help you feel with feelings of stress, worry, or overwhelm. Unfortunately, there are a lot of reasons to feel stressed on most days. So between school, family, relationships, and questions about our future, what can we do about everything that's causing us stress? During Jesus’ ministry, he spent a lot of time with people during some really stressful moments. In this four-week series from the Gospels, we'll see how, when we’re not okay, Jesus offers hope. We’ll discover that when people reject us, Jesus never will. We’ll see that when it’s not easy to do what’s right, it’s still worth it. And we’ll be reminded that when you feel worried, Jesus can be trusted.

We have the pleasure of welcoming back Rod Vis as the teacher for this series! We are excited to have him lead our Junior High's in a series all about evangelism and what it looks like to share the good news.

There are some things we just have to share. A funny video, some encouraging words, or a profound moment of kindness are all things we’ve probably shared this week. When we share, we just want the people we care about most to experience what we have. We’re quick to send videos to each other, but how easy is it for us to share our faith? Maybe it’s not that we don’t want to share, but we might have a hard time overcoming some of our obstacles or insecurities. During this four-week series, we’ll take a look at the story of Samuel and the ways that God called him to share his faith through words and action. Together, we’ll explore how God invites us to share the good news, why sharing the good news should start with prayer, what to do when sharing the good news requires risk, and how sharing the good news can happen every day.