Clifton Park Baptist Church 8818 Piney Branch Road Silver Spring ...

Youth Minister Minister Glenn Scott
Missions
The year began with Deuteronomy 6:6-9 as our charter and we set out this year
wanting to disciple our youth towards a closer relationship with Jesus mostly
through fellowship, worship and various mission related projects.
We started off by hosting the District of Columbia Baptist Convention’s 2011 Youth Summit which
brought together roughly 10 youth ministries and over 100 attendees for a day fun, fellowship and
worship. The day included both breakfast and lunch with workshops led by various youth ministers
invited by the convention’s planning board. The staff at DCBC heralded the event as a great success
and was immensely grateful to CPBC for opening its doors to its Summit.
We then turned our attention to Operation Christmas Child, our annual missions project that gives
our youth the opportunity to give to children around the country and around the world. This year
as before, our youth along with parents and various members in our congregation donated over 50
boxes to needy children across the globe. In addition to this act of giving, the Lord placed it on the
heart of Sister Linda Slaughter to lead a group of teen girls on a 3 days mission trip to one of the major
shoe box collection warehouses for Operation Christmas Shoe on November 27-27 th . While
there, they worked two 8 hour work shifts checking each shoe box to make sure that they were safe
and appropriate to send to their final destination.
In December of 2011 the Youth Ministry started an open gym night for teens in the neighborhood
and although attendance fell off, we were able to start a 6 weeks basketball camp for children ages 7
through 11 on the fundamentals of basketball. Attendance was on average about 17 children and we
continue to look for ways to continue providing this opportunity to our youth throughout the coming
year.
Lastly, as did many other ministries in the church, the youth ministry hosted Project Neighbor care in
May. The teens took on the door knocking duties alongside the Education Ministry, knocking on
more than 80 doors in about 2 hours. On the first Saturday in July roughly 30 youth participated in
the market serving more than 100 households.
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