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Our youth activities promote our values and help build lifelong friendships.
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Border Baptist Youth Ministry is meeting at 6:30 on Wednesday and Sunday evening at Border Fellowship
Transportaation is available for those interested in attending. Our mission is to touch youth with God's love
and purpose in their lives. We are committed to overcoming today's many destructive challenges. We will
accomplish this by breaking down the many barriers ofthe body of Christ. By joining hands together we will be able to
encourage our local community to become active and prosper, by living a loving, safe, drug-free, purity driven lifestyle.
The Border Baptist Fellowship youth
ministry is designed to lead all teens to a deeper relationship in Jesus Christ, as well as the saving knowledge of Jesus
under the direction of the Holy Spirit. This is accomplished through discipling teens, mission trips, prayer, fellowship and
events that build up the body of Christ. If you don't have God in your life or want to know how to draw closer to God, then
we hope and pray you will come and find out what God's word says. GO WITH GOD!!!"
Core Values of the Border Baptist Fellowship Youth
and Teen Ministry
Spiritual We encourage a Christocentric environment where spiritual formation is shaped through prayer, praise, proclamation and the study of God's Word. Sociable Our aim is to honor relational lifestyles where church youth and teenagers engage in recreation, revivals, retreats, rallies, conventions, conferences, teen summits and peer group activities that stress collaboration, communication and a celebration of youth identity, awareness, expression and empowerment. Servants Consistent with our missionary mandate, we affirm a youth and teen ministry geared to serving the church through worship and witnessing. We encourage youth and young adults to exercise their spiritual gifts throughout the ministries of the church and by assisting others within the context of the community.  |
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TEEN STATISTICS
TEEN SEXUAL ACTIVITY
* In America, a teenage girl gets pregnant every 31 seconds; 80% drop out of school; 70% go on welfare. In
addition, 60 percent are pregnant again within 2 years.
* 1 out of 10 girls, ages 15-19, gets pregnant every year.
* 5 out of 6 teenage pregnancies are unplanned.
* In the next 24 hours, 1,000 unwed teenage girls will become pregnant,
* In the next hour, 117 teenagers will get pregnant.
* In the next hour, 46 teenage girls will have abortions.
* 26 percent of abortions result from teenage pregnancies.
* Half of the 1 million teenage pregnancies this year will end in abortion
* 382 teenagers miscarry every day.
* In the next 30 minutes, 14 teenage girls will give birth out of wedlock.
* The syphilis rate for teenagers, age 15-19 has jumped 67 percent since 1985.
* Thousands of cases of AIDS among teenagers are counted by the Center for Disease Control each year
TEEN DRUG USE
* Over 7,000 of our youth die each year in alcohol related accidents
* There are 3.3 million teenage alcoholics of the 10-15 million alcoholics
* 1 out of 3 teenagers is a heavy drinker; 1 out of 7 will become an alcoholic.
* 100,000 ten-year-olds get drunk at least once a week.
* In the next 24 hours, 5,760 students will begin using drugs
* In 30 minutes, 188 young people will experience a serious drinking problem.
* In the next 30 minutes, 685 teenagers will use a form of narcotics
* In the next hour 1,370 of our youth will take an illegal drug
* 57% of all illegal drugs are sold on school campuses
* 1 in 5 twelfth graders has tried cocaine or crack.
* Two thirds of all high school dropouts are involved in drugs.
* 57 percent of all illicit drugs are sold on school campuses.
TEEN SUICIDE
* In the next 30 minutes, 29 kids under 18 will make a serious attempt at suicide
* In the past 30 years, teenage suicide has quadrupled.
* More than 5,000 teenagers die each year by suicide.
* More than 60,000 young people died by suicide in the past decade; that's more than the number of Americans
killed in Vietnam.
* In the past 8 years, more than 4 million teenagers have attempted suicide.
TEEN CRIME
In the next 24 hours, 135,000 students will bring a weapon to school.
*In the next 24 hours, 12 young people will have died as a result of murder.
*The FBI Reports: A forcible rape occurs every 5 minutes.
A murder occurs every 23 minutes.
*An aggravated assault happens every 51 seconds
*In addition: Larceny or theft occurs every 4 seconds; a burglary occurs every 12 seconds; and a motor vehicle
theft occurs every 20 seconds.
HOME TROUBLES AND VIOLENCE
IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES, 57 teenagers will run away from home.
IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES, 285 teenagers will become victims of broken homes.
IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES, 228 kids under 18 will be beaten, molested, or abused by their parents.
In the United States, 28.6 million children have parents who are alcoholics
When you are depressed and life seems overwhelming
place your trust in God
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge
Him, And He shall direct your paths."
-Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13 - NKJV) “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy; meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:4-8 - NKJV). “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (1 Peter 56-7). Although things may be difficult, Christians can avoid deep depression. "We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed… Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:8-9, 16-18 - NIV). Remember what Jesus Christ went through for us. Remember what the apostle Paul experienced, yet remained focused on the eternal rather than the temporary. When we maintain faith and keep our focus on God's love and the hope He has given us for eternity, Christians can weather the storms of life. It can be done. Paul — "…I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed
to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods,
once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the
move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles;
in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers. I have labored and toiled
and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches." If suffering with a problem please contact us at joemrev@yahoo.com |
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