Our theme for youth group this year is Seeking Wholeness: Being Good News to the Broken. This theme can be broken into two parts. First, our desire as a youth group is to understand how Jesus Christ brings wholeness to our lives. Our goal is to seek Him and the restoration that He brings in all aspects of our lives. Spiritual wholeness, physical wholeness, emotional wholeness, and social wholeness. Our theme verse is taken from Jeremiah 29:11-13 as God addressed the exiles in Babylon reminding them that His desire for them was to be restored to what He intended for them, if they would only seek Him.

But as much as we desire to seek God and understand the wholeness, restoration, and peace that comes with knowing Jesus, we also know that God has called us to live out this wholeness. This is the second part of our theme. As much as the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, brings wholeness to us, God is calling us to be good news to those around us. Our homes, workplaces, and schools are filled with people who are broken and in need of Jesus to bring wholeness. We will be exploring and putting into action what it means to not only preach good news but to be good news exactly wherever God has us.