Report of the
Board of Youth & Young Adults
The purpose of the Board of Youth and Young Adults is to bring glory to God and honor to God as it ministers to the adult youth leaders, teens, and young adults of the BFC. We do this by: 1) Promoting unity, 2) Providing training, and 3) Being a catalyst for networking.
To these ends we as a Board met four times this year. We planned and operated several events to try to accomplish these goals.
We were involved in the sponsorship of Fall Out 2001 to help promote See You at the Pole prayer meetings at Lehigh Valley and other high schools. There were 2,600 people at Fall Out 2001 and with such groups as Skillet, Reliant K, and Rebecca St. James coming we expect the 2002 rally to have over 3,500.
The Thanksgiving Rally at Victory Valley Camp and other locations had 260 there from 13 BFC churches.
There were 1,113 in attendance at Sno Glo at Pinebrook. We continue to work to try to hone these series of events into the best that they can possibly be.
There was a trip to the shore for Young Adults. 43 people came.
Finally, there was a Short Term Missions Symposium sponsored by the Board of Youth and Young Adults and the Board of Missions held at the Quakertown BFC. This event had 65 in attendance.
We are working on two new retreats which will happen in 2002, but the planning for which started in 2001. The first is the Leadership Retreat. The plan is to have adult and teen leaders from church gather for inspiration, encouragement, training, and idea sharing. The second is “Here Am I, Send Me”, a retreat which will help anyone who believes they might be called to the pastoral ministry. We will endeavor to define what a call is and try to show them how to proceed if they believe that they are called.
Board of Youth & Young Adults: Clyde D. Bomgardner, Jr., Chairman; William J. Dunn, Treasurer; John C. Vandegriff, Jr., Secretary; Andrew T. Crossgrove, Sue Homsher, Ron Kohl, Dennis J. Lawrence, Charles A. Mann, Dorothy L. Ruch