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Candlelight Fellowship Junior High Fellowship
unior high students, some find them know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Jstrange, others find them intimidating. We believe that it is essential for our junior high
Regardless of where you stand on them, one students to discover this absolute truth and have
thing is for certain, the junior high period is this truth serve as anchor in their lives.
a very interesting phase of an individual’s
life. Although they may still look like one of IDENTITY – Again junior high students are in
the younger kids (and trust me, they often act a very precarious season of their lives, where
the part as well), they have entered into their they are asking questions, “Who am I? What
formative years, where they will learn more defines me? How do others see me?” And
about their own identity and also about the as they are trying to navigate through these
Christian faith. And it is because of this need questions, the world is bombarding them with
that gave birth to our junior high ministry, the different voices day after day. Therefore, we
so-called, Candlelight Fellowship. hope that at Candlelight, our students will be
exposed to a different voice, where they’ll learn
In Candlelight we want to cultivate an that their identity is not dependent on their
environment or a community where junior high abilities or their appearance, but rather their
students not only get to experience but to also identity is found in Christ.
live out the love and grace of God. We strive
to be the place where students are empowered COMMUNITY – The Psalmist says in Psalm
to encounter, to work, and to walk with God 139:14, “I praise you because I am fearfully and
in every area of their lives. We hope that wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
Candlelight would be a place where junior high I know that full well.” We are each uniquely
students can learn and grow together. A place made in the image of God, We are not made
to belong, a place to freely ask questions like, for self benefit or self-fulfillment but to
“Who am I? Who is Jesus? What does it mean complement, to help, to edify one another. We
to be a follower of Christ?” The core values hope that Candlelight would be the place where
that we’ve adopted to serve as the driving students would get to experience this. That
force behind Candlelight are truth, identity, having our identity found in Christ does not
community, and service (T.I.C.S.). only mean we have been saved and redeemed,
but that we have been saved and redeemed and
TRUTH - We live in a world that is filled with adopted into a new family.
relativity and an increasing belief of an absence
of an absolute and objective truth. But in all SERVICE – We believe that work or service is
we know that’s contrary to the teachings of the an integral part of one’s faith development. So
Scripture. In John 8:32, Jesus said, “you will in Candlelight we have somewhat “flipped” the
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