Covenant Community

As part of our youth retreat, we talked to the kids about God's vision and mission for our church.

The beginning of that statement calls our church a "covenant community." JtM asked them what it means to be a covenant community. I thought their answers were interesting:

Covenant -- promised, united, together, desirable, bargain, agreement, reliable, trusting.

Community -- together, population, relationship, community, harmony.

One of the youth defined it as a "group of people working together for a common goal. We talked about a covenant community as a group which shares tolerance moving toward acceptance.

To me they are a living example of a covenant community. The youth from our church, as different as the individual members are, share the love of Christ with each other. I think that they came pretty close to defining covenant community with words, but I think that they "get" it by the way they walk together as a youth fellowship.

Many are the times when I know that I learn more from them than I could ever teach them. I am blessed to have a small role in their group.

Image: Cabin at Spring Heights -- doesn't it look like home?