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Effective committees are the lifeline for Young Life in the local area. Young Life begins in new areas becasue of adults - because of their love for the Lord, their love for lost kids in their community and their commitment to Young Life's vision of reaching every kid, everywhere for Christ.
Young Life is sustained by adults serving on an area committee, in communities across the United States and around the world. They are unseen and unknown to most of the kids they serve, but these people are the foundation for successful ministry in Young Life communities.
If you would like more information on the Virgnia Beach Young Life Committee, please contact Mike Terranova 757-635-6830.
Roles
of Effective Committee:
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Help create the vision to reach every kid in the local area
• Pray for all facets of the ministry
• Ensure the integrity of the local ministry
• Promote Young Life in the community
• Raise funds to guarantee the local budget
• Monitor the financial affairs of the area
• Support and assist Young Life staff and volunteers
• Provide leaders with input and advice
• Maintain the continuity of Young Life in the area
• Work with the regional director, especially during staff transitions
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As
the Virginia Beach Young Life Committee We...
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...are
Chosen to Serve
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Our
appointment to any mission, including committee, is Christ’s
initiative. Those who serve are called to this mission at Christ’s
invitation. We have an undeniable, God-given “nudge” to reach kids in
our community for Jesus Christ. We who are called are also empowered so
that we will bear fruit for His name’s sake.
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You
did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit –
fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in
my name. – John 15:16
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...all
Do the Work
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We
are chosen to do God’s work in the world. Graciously, God chooses us,
and then He equips us with “everything good for doing His will” (Hebrews
13:21). We offer our own unique gifts so that the entire committee will
grow as individuals and jointly flourish as a ministry. Under Christ’s
direction, we are fitted together perfectly and interdependently as we do His
work in the world.
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...all
Have Gifts
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We
possess different yet complementary gifts. The root of the word
complementary is “complete,” and that is exactly what the effective committee
does. It completes the gifts of the staff and volunteer leaders.
Every member of Christ’s body and every member of a local committee has gifts
bestowed by grace. No one has every gift, and no one’s gifts are superfluous.
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Just
as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all
have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each
member belongs to all the others. – Romans 12:4-5
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...share
in Ministry
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The
body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts
are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ…there should be no
division in the body but that its parts should have equal concern for each
other. – 1 Corinthians 12:12, 25
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Paul
uses the body as the model of Christ’s church more than 30 times in his
letters. It is his most often used analogy for the church.
Interesting how the parts of the body, as beautiful or essential as they
individually may be, lose all relevance absent from the other parts.
What good is a foot without a leg to make it useful or an eye to direct its
path?
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In
the same way, the effective committee works together as one body striving
toward the same eternal purpose and prize of exposing lost kids to the
reality of living life with Jesus Christ.
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