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Church In Park | Youth Unlimited Teen Missions
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE, Youth Ministry

The Church in the Park

Unity, worship, power, witness… those and many more words could be used to describe some of what God is doing in Peterborough, Ontario.   A few years ago, our church and youth group set out to extend our ministry and our presence into the community by loving...
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| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

Live 58 + Serve

Click here to watch the video about how Youth Unlimited, Live 58 and World Renew have teamed up to make Serve a life changing experience for students, their congregations and communities. “In collaboration with Live 58 and World Renew, Youth Unlimited connected the one week Serve to a...
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Where are They Now?
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In Youth Ministry

Where are They Now?

Calvin Theological Seminary’s Facing Your Future and Youth Unlimited have been longstanding partners in ministry. Several of those involved in the Facing Your Future program, including some of which are mentioned below, were former Serve participants, interns at Youth Unlimited or are current Host Church leaders. Youth Unlimited it...
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creation care
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

Changing the Meaning of “Church Service”

Bethel CRC in Brockville, Ontario, has left the building. Rather than seeing a teen summer mission trip as a mountaintop experience, they are working to build serving into the DNA of the congregation.   Students from Bethel have participated in Youth Unlimited’s Serve many times and have taken it...
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Construction Kids
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

Changed Lives Changing Lives

“His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me.” Words from Betty Bartlett’s favorite song ring true each and every day in her home. Betty, a 72-year-old, cancer-surviving widow expressed her joy as eight high school students painted the cupboards and walls in her...
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Kids on Ladder
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

What now?

Love Jesus. Love Others. Like the directions on a shampoo bottle; lather, rinse, repeat.   “Repeating” asks us to do it again and again. Maybe you heard something like this in grade two: Pete and Repeat were in a boat. Pete fell out and who was left?...
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Mountain
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE, Youth Ministry

Life Changing Experiences

Did the students you took on Serve (or another faith-forming experience) this summer return home with an experience and a teaching that will forever impact how they live their lives? Hopefully your answer is a yes that causes you to celebrate God’s goodness. I know my life was forever...
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Car
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

Customizing Brings a Crowd

Detroit may be known as the City of Trees or even Hockeytown (did I just hear all of Canada collectively clear their throat?) but it’s the roots of Motown that had over one million people lined up for the Woodward Dream Cruise. Thousands of custom cars lined...
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Houston Serve
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

Fasting for Serve

My name is John Eigege. I am a church planter from Nigeria working in Houston, Texas. Over the past three years, God has taken my family on a wild ride as we plant a church that connects Houston’s Midtown and Third Ward neighborhoods. These two neighborhoods, separated...
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Texas
| by ThereforeGo Ministries In SERVE

My Life’s Work is to Love

In June of 2011, when I was 16 years old, I was the most reluctant person in my youth group to go on a Serve trip. I hated physical labor, and the thought of the Texas heat beating down on me while I worked without pay seemed...
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