The journey
The Seven-Year Journey
Most youth ministries are a place to pass through. We're building something different: a seven-year path that walks with your student from their first year of middle school to the day they graduate — and hands them off ready for what comes next.
The path moves through three seasons. Each one is designed for who a student actually is at that age, not a one-size-fits-all program.
Three seasons
Grades 6–8
Foundations
Learning the story. Students get grounded in the big narrative of the Bible and the core of what Christians believe, and build the habits — worship, prayer, reading — that carry a faith for life.
Grades 9–10
Questions
Learning to think. This is the season for asking "why?" out loud. Students learn to examine what they believe, wrestle honestly with a skeptical culture, and hold their faith with understanding instead of just inheritance.
Grades 11–12
Voice
Learning to live it and say it. Older students learn to articulate their faith, defend it winsomely, and carry it into college and career — and to help the students coming up behind them.
Grade by grade
Woven through the Foundations years, the New City Catechism (52 questions and answers) runs as a weekly memory thread — the shared confession students carry in their own words.
Two milestones along the way
Early 9th-grade fall · prep across 8th
Confirmation
After a year of preparation in 8th grade, students sit for confirmation interviews in the fall of 9th — their own public step of claiming the faith they've been formed in.
End of 12th grade
Charis Membership
The journey closes with reception into Charis Membership — moving from student to full participant in the life of the church.
7년의 여정
[한국어 제목 — 준비 중]
한국어 안내가 곧 제공됩니다. 상단에서 “English”를 눌러 읽어 주세요.