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Or, Don't Be Jealous When Help is Near.
In our effort to win souls to Jesus Christ, ware trying to bring JOY to all, but especially to the younger set who are involved in making life changing decisions at this time in their lives. We know that there comes a time in a young persons life when they feel that PARENTS do not understand what they are going through and they will turn to other confidants. Most of the time they will turn to their peers and unfortunately some to bad influences. While looking for JOY, they will get into drugs; and looking for LOVE, they will get into GANGS and break the law.
We offer a different setting of righteousness where young people can find out truly what Jesus is all about: JOY, LOVE, PEACE, FUN, HAPPINESS, TRUST, TOGETHERNESS, AND BELONGING. Guess what, even ADULTS THAT LISTEN.
But in return for our efforts, we get sometimes JEALOUS PARENTS, who use church functions as a medium of PUNISHMENT for their children so much until they turn to, you guessed it, GANGS for the SECURITY they seek. There were some young people attending the Sunday and youth sessions pretty faithfully yet having trouble in other areas of their lives. We must say learning is a process. We began to notice that when we called for pick up on service times, the reply was that they were on punishment. Note this, they were on punishment from the church because they liked it so much, yet they still went to parties, games and stayed up very late, like past 4 a.m. in the morning . I called the mother and asked her about this. Her explanation was that since her children liked attending church so much when she punished them, she was going to take the church away from them. I said , "Pleased Ma'am, we are trying to teach them righteous principles that you would approve of in a setting that they would enjoy". She said, as they always do her kids were worse, perhaps we were the blame for them giving her trouble. (which of course we later found out began years before we met them, this is a common scapegoat type blame). When I explained that things take time, and that you have to gain a young person's trust before you can show them that that following the LORD and other good things are really the right way. WE, Covenant, have to gain the trust of that young person and when we do, they will began to talk and we can respond in love and righteousness in ways that the parents would be surprised at. If she would just give it a chance. She told me in "Blackness" I said it before, and I'll say it again, since they like the church, I will take that away from them as a punishment. Our conversation ended. But this is not the end of the story. Guess what they ended up doing. . . .
The GANGS!
Fighting , hating, shooting and the lot, and that she cannot take away. It's in the schools, it's on the streets, its at the parties, it's on the phone, it's in front of the house. We won't give up on them, we keep calling. And they keep calling when they are in trouble, asking for prayer, saying that only death is the way out. We believe that the LORD is the way out, He is the answer to every prayer.
COVENANT ASSEMBLY is a place where ANSWERS and joy are found for the young and for the more mature than young. Just a few good bible studies and fellowship we call ;
THE CHURCH IN YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD!
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