Colossians Series Week 11 | Speaker Brandon Brickley | August 13th, 2023

Pastor Brandon Brickley teaches on MVC's Youth Sunday. The phrase “It takes a village.” has been reduced to parenting tips online and a platform for tired parents to vent. For Mountain View Church, it is so much more than swapping sleeping strategies and feeding rituals. Mountain View Kids & Youth Ministries aim to create a safe place for our youth to come and BE the church. Our Kid's Ministry has amazing leaders dedicated to showing up for kids so they discover that “KIDS CAN”! Our Middle & High-School Ministries come alongside our teenagers to disciple them to discover the “Life to the full” that Christ offers. This, is the village! The book of Ecclesiastes encourages the youth to “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1), and Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14). This is not just a parent thing. The “Village of MVC" is not just a youth leader or kid's volunteer thing... It is a CHURCH thing. And each of us plays a part in bringing kids to Christ. We will be celebrating what God is doing in the youth, and we will be looking at the last few verses in Colossians, where we see the early structure of the church and how it fulfills the mission of Christ.