Author Archive: Ryan Aufenkamp
January 20, 2022
Last night we continued our journey of looking at the Attributes of God together. Thus far, we’ve looked at God’s: Infinitude, Goodness, Justice, Mercy, and Grace. Last night, we dove into Psalm 139 and pulled out all the things that David wrote about God’s Omnipotence (v.13-22), Omnipresence (v.7-12), and Omniscience (v.1-6). We laughed at the […]
Continue ReadingOctober 14, 2021
Last night at youth group we spent the evening tacking the first 6 verses of Jonah chapter 1. We read that Jonah, as a prophet, hears the voice of the Lord and is told to arise and go to Nineveh who has done evil in His sight. This is how many of the other minor […]
Continue ReadingOctober 12, 2021
High School Hang Details for this Week We are going to do something a little bit different for High School Hang this week. Instead of staying at the church the whole evening, we’re going to take the group to the Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch to do the Corn Maze at Night (we’ll probably do a […]
Continue ReadingOctober 7, 2021
Last night we started our series in the book of JONAH! We did an overview of the book, reading through each of the chapters and pausing to reflect, citing our observations and questions that came up from every chapter. It was really cool to see the students dive deep (pun-intended) into a biblical story that […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 30, 2021
Last Wednesday we had our parent night at youth group that was aimed at getting to know Matt Arnett, the proposed candidate for a year long youth ministry internship that will, Lord willingly, turn into a pastoral position overseeing the youth group. We spent the evening worshipping together, and getting to know Matt Arnett through […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 23, 2021
Last night was ENCOURAGING! There were over 100 students and staff gathered from four different churches to worship Jesus, and to pray for our schools. We spent time doing “battle” on our knees, asking that God would pour out blessing on schools, their faculty, and student bodies. Then, we spent more time asking that the […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 16, 2021
Last night we spent the majority of the night in our small groups getting aquatinted with each other and the small group leaders. 🙂 We had the students study through Galatians 6:1-5, and Ephesians 4:1-6 in order to pull out principles that would help to guide our future small group meetings. The gist was that […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 14, 2021
First and foremost, if you were not at chttps://www.evergreenbible.com/september-14-2021/hurch this last weekend, Ryan Donovan our leadership team chairman gave an update on our pastoral search. Since Matt Daniells left EBC and is now the Senior Pastor at Keyport Bible Church, the leadership team has been seeking the Lord to discern what is next. After a […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 9, 2021
Just wanted to give everyone a review of what we talked about last night at youth group so that you’re able to follow up with your students. 🙂 I’ll try to make these brief, but the goal is that it gives you some firepower to have Spiritual conversations at home. Last night we talked about […]
Continue ReadingSeptember 7, 2021
I hope that you all had a wonderful Labor Day, and a good start to the school year. I’m really looking forward to gathering with the students again tomorrow night! We had a great kick off last week, and we’re looking to keep the momentum going into the Fall. One of the big things that […]
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