Youth

Strong Roots for Tender Shoots: Cradle Roll

To help equip parents for all the blessings and challenges of raising Christian children, Mt. Olive provides Christian resources to both parents and children through our Cradle Roll program. Beginning at a child’s baptism, and every six months until they reach Sunday School age, a parent will receive Christian advice and encouragement through a variety of Christian resources, books, and publications tailored to the specific age and needs of their child. Each child also receives age-appropriate Christian books and a musical CD aimed at encouraging a healthy relationship with Jesus. Cradle Roll is offered to all congregation families with children ages newborn through 4 years.

 

Sunday School

Feeding Jesus’ lambs with God’s Word is important to us at Mt. Olive. We invite all children to enjoy an hour of Sunday School after worship on Sundays of each month from September to May. Our teachers go through the Bible story at an age-appropriate level, in engaging ways so each child can understand and apply it in their lives.  

  • Pre-K (toilet-trained age 3 and up) – 1st Grade

  • 2nd Grade – 4th Grade

  • 5th Grade – 6th Grade

  • 7 & 8th Grades and high school students are encouraged to attend adult Bible study.

 Youth Activities

Children are invited to participate in fellowship and service activities as part of our youth group. Our purpose is to grow in grace, service, and outreach while having fun with our Christian friends.

The Mt. Olive youth group exists to reach this generation of young people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Holy Scriptures.  Our prayer is that their faith in Jesus as their Savior might be strengthened, and that they might be empowered to let that gospel light shine to all with whom they come in contact. We seek to not only inform our youth, but also help transform them to live lives as young Christians through the power of the Holy Spirit. We don’t want our youth to simply conform to their parents’ church. We want them to know this is their church too.  We educate our youth in God’s Word, and we provide opportunities for both Christian service and to strengthen the valuable bonds of Christian friends and influences.

Youth and adult participants are always welcome. Specific schedule of opportunities is communicated as dates approach.

 Mt. Olive Teen Group

A group for the High School (and recently confirmed) members of Mt. Olive to get together after confirmation and continue to grow in their faith, both individually and as a group. A judgement free environment to share openly and freely, ask questions, and have fun!  Specific schedule of opportunities is communicated as dates approach.

 Catechism Classes (Confirmation)

Catechism classes run for two years at Mt. Olive are for early teens, typically during their 5th to 8th grade years. Students study God’s Word with the assistance of Luther’s Small Catechism and with some parental involvement.

After completion of this time in God’s Word, students desiring to become active “members” at Mt. Olive are “confirmed” in their faith. This simply means they have an opportunity to tell the congregation they’re no longer coming to be served by God’s Word through the ministry of Mt. Olive because their parents bring them. Instead, a “confirmed” child now tells the whole congregation, “I’ve studied God’s Word for myself. I believe what you believe! And I want to become a part of this ministry too.”

For more information contact Pastor Z.