Elevate Student Ministries

Dear Parents, Hello again. We hope you and your family are doing well!  We just wanted to give you an important update on what has been happening in the ESM world. Please take a few minutes to read up on our upcoming events; you will be glad you did! If you have time we would also encourage you to keep up on where we have been going with our lessons. We are so grateful for your involvement and interest in your student's spiritual lives!  Upcoming at Elevate We wanted to make sure you knew about a few upcoming events at Elevate.  Reverb - Reverb is an all-night event with Word of Life that will be hosted this year in Orlando on Nov. . It is an evangelistic event, and a blast to be a part of! Word of life has two specials going on that we wanted to make you aware of. First, there is a an early bird special that is wrapping up by the end of the month. The early bird price is just $50. That covers the cost of a professional sports game, food, transportation, an

Dear Parents, I hope you are doing well. I have been encouraged by the things I have seen going on around Elevate. I believe God desires to do a good work among our students, and I would encourage you to keep praying that He would work in a big way in our midst. Know that we are praying for you in your ministry of parenthood often.  Elevate Sunday This week at Elevate Sunday the lesson was quite heavy, as students looked at a powerful example of sacrificial faithfulness. The discussion was solid and the students dug deep. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did! This week, the lesson was entitled “The Offering of Isaac.” The lesson’s purpose was to get students thinking about the idea of faithfulness, even to the point of sacrificing life. We made the comparison how God provided for himself a sacrifice both for Abraham and for us     We looked at the following Scripture passages : Genesis 22:1-19 John 3:16 As you read these scriptures, your perspective will b

Dear Parents, Hello again! Our group is still marching through the big-picture story of the Bible, and loving every lesson.   This week, the lesson was entitled, “Abraham and the Birth of a People.” The lesson was all about how God chose Abraham to be the father of His special people, and how, through faith in Jesus, we are adopted into God’s family. We looked at the following Scripture passages: ·          Genesis 12:1-5a ·          Genesis 15 ·          Genesis 21:1-7 ·          Galatians 3:25-29 I encourage you to read this passages, so you can clearly see the connection between what God did through Abraham to establish His own people, and what God has done through Jesus to bring more people into His family. Next Steps . . . During the next week as you have time to talk with your student, consider asking the following questions: ·          In your lesson this week you discussed God’s faithfulness to His promises. What difference does it make to know t

Dear Parents, Hello again! We’re already on week four of our study of the big-picture story of the Bible called The Thread .   This week’s lesson was a really wonderful time of learning about Noah and God’s covenant promises. This week, the lesson was entitled “The Faith of Noah and God’s Hatred of Sin” and it focused on helping students understand the depth to the story of Noah. In God’s covenant with Noah, we see a measure of grace and forgiveness. After all, God allowed humankind a second chance even though He certainly knew that we would be a sinful people still. This is a foreshadowing of the perfect covenant that Christ would usher in, a covenant that once and for all provided perfect forgiveness of our sins. We looked at the following Scripture passages: ·          Genesis 6:9-22 ·          Genesis 7:11-24 ·          Genesis 8:13-19 ·          Genesis 9:8-17 ·          Matthew 26:26-29 You’ll enjoy reading these powerful passages that show us the powe