Youth Group

SUNDAY SCHOOL KICKOFF IS SEPTEMBER 20
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We meet upstairs in the Youth Room for Sunday School directly following the service during the school year (September - June). We offer light snacks and drinks,  game time, prayer, fellowship and Bible Study.
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YOUTH GROUP KICK OFF IS SEPTEMBER 8
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We meet on Tuesday evenings from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in the Youth Room upstairs. It is made up of youth in grades 6 to 12.  It is a chance for our youth to come together for fun games and fellowship, participate in worship,  listen to Bible teaching and encourage one another in small groups. We offer light snacks and drinks at the end of each youth night.
Throughout our year, we host dinner events, weekend retreats, and different fellowship activities.  We are hopeful for a possible missions trip coming up, and look for opportunities to serve our local community in ways that glorify God and all that He has done for us.  
If you are interested in serving as a youth leader or a student leader, please reach out to Ryan or a current leader.
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Join us on Tuesday evenings at Battle Ground Baptist as we begin a new 4-week series on September 8 called "Stretch".
If your faith were a muscle, how flexible would it be? Could it stretch to your knees? Your shins? Your toes? Or are you not sure you even have any faith to stretch in the first place? Just like your body, if you want a faith that is strong, growing, and capable of carrying you through difficult challenges, you're going to need to stretch it. It might be fun. It might be challenging. But it will definitely be worthwhile.
In this series, we'll discover four ways we can stretch our faith from Paul, the author of the book of Romans and a man whose life was completely transformed by Jesus. Thanks to Paul's words, we know we can stretch our faith by making a commitment, by starting something new, and by letting something go. We can even stretch our faith when we feel like we've failed. Join us on Tuesday's to hear more about this series and how we can look to Paul's writings to help us build Spiritual Habits. 
We look forward to seeing you there.  If you have any questions, please reach out to our youth director, Ryan Schwartz.

Our High School boys had the opportunity to spend President's Weekend in February away at Camp Tadmor! Dr. Sam Baker was the main speaker who used to be BGBC's Associate Pastor. The four day and three night adventure was complete with fantastic worship, encouraging sessions, intentional Bible studies, cold plunges, little sleep, hours of paintball, and many more eventful memories.

This summer's annual Nerf war was EPIC!
Suspenseful music, strobe lights, fog machine, and endless rounds of fun. We hope to see you in battle at our Nerf War next Summer! 

This past August, our Youth Girls took a weekend getaway to Long Beach, Washington for the annual Kite Festival. The girls had lots of fellowship time, little sleep, hot tub time, beach time, flew kites, watched whales,  competed in a sand castle competition complete with team chants and judging, walked the boardwalk for the Kite Festival, Scoopers Ice Cream, shopping in town, fun games, and lots of good food. We grew with the Lord in Bible studies on Saturday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday morning accompanied with incredible acoustic worship led by our girls.
We hope you join us next year for our
Third Annual Girls Beach Retreat! 

A small group attended the ACTS Intensive Program over at the Antioch Orchard's in Tieton Washington this May. The ACTS Program is put on by our Missionary Partner's at the Great Commandments Ministries. This small group spent the weekend away getting a preview of their campus for a GAP year program that they offer to post high school young adults looking for what's next in their life. They also participated in incredible fellowship, three session's about discipleship, spiritual disciplines and the importance of serving others, powerful worship, time of solitude and bible study, amazing meals prepared homemade, games and late night testimonies. This time away was incredibly intentional for the small group that went to reset their rhythm of life to reflect and glorify God in everything we do and say. Let us know if you are interested in attending next year! Check out more from Great Commandments Ministry and what they offer!

This past April our Youth Group hosted our very first all Worship Night. We invited our youth families and included our College & Career Group for this evening event. It was an incredible evening of intentional worship, our Senior Pastor shared about what worship is, our Youth Director shared a brief devotional, several youth student's shared testimonies and what God is doing in their life, wonderful fellowship, snacks, and late night games. We hope to see you at our next worship night this fall!
Check our calendar for details! 

In November, our Youth Group went through a series about the importance of serving others.  God sent His Son, not only to be with us but to serve us.  He healed the sick, loved the unlovable, fed the hungry, and gave His life for our salvation.  When we serve others, it is pleasing to God and fulfilling His commandments of loving your neighbor as you love yourself.  We serve with a humble heart, and in all that we do, it is to glorify God.
Our youth completed 50 service projects around the community this past Winter and Spring to help out those in our church family in need.  We cleared many yards of fallen leaves, overgrowth, cut back trees and branches, pressure washed slippery driveways and walking paths, made dump runs to rid away clutter and garbage, detailed cars for a fresh new look, and delivered and spread gravel walkways and bark dust for garden beds.  Our Youth Group is continuing to serve in this way by doing more service projects for our church community a few times a season.
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, 
as good stewards of God's varied grace.  
1 Peter 4:10
Thank you church family for giving us the opportunity to learn, grow and serve each other as the Lord calls us to.