First Baptist Church of Pendleton

Our purpose:

Encourage youth to strengthen and live out their faith in all areas of their life.

Ephesians 3: 16 & 19 (TNIV) I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Equip youth to seek and begin to find their identity in Christ.

Ephesians 1:11-12 (The Message) It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

Empower youth to build stronger family relationships and to connect with their church community at large.

Ephesians 3:17-18 (TNIV) so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.

Engage youth to see the reality of a hurting world and empower them to find ways to bring the light of Christ into the darkness.  

Ephesians 2:10 (NRSV) For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

(picture above: youth serving with homeless ministry in Anderson. -Summer 2011)