truth and challenge our sisters to apply this truth to life. We want to be a church characterized by a disciple-making culture— presenting everyone mature in Christ. Over these last two years, it has been my privilege to partner with women at every stage of their journeys towards spiritual maturity. It is a joy to be a part of the work that he is doing in and through the women of College Church. My prayer for this coming year is that we would continue to keep Christ at the core of all we do and press on together towards the goal of Christlike maturity.
Zach Fallon
High School Pastor It is my pleasure to give God glory for what he has done in and through the student ministries here at College Church this past year. As always, he has been faithful to reveal Christ from his Word, and we have seen many of our students responding in faith in various areas of their lives. We are taking seriously the task of partnering with the parents of College Church in seeing the gospel passed on to the next generation. What a joy it has been to see the high school students of College Church challenged by God’s Word to follow Christ
with their lives. It has been our continued hope and prayer that God would use this ministry to help our students pursue maturity in Christ. We want to see the students of College Church crossing into Christian adulthood ready to follow and serve Christ! We’ve had various ways in which students could grow in their faith this year. We have gathered together as a high school community during the 9:30 a.m. hour on Sunday morning. This has been a great time for us to worship together and hear from God’s Word. Our students were also a part of eight different small groups (four guys and four girls) led by a wonderful team of adult leaders. Our adult leaders have loved our students well, teaching them God’s Word and sharing their lives with them. We’ve also seen many of our students being trained for and serving in ministry. We had twenty-one upperclassmen participate in a discipleship and ministry training program called Bridge Fellowship. We also had students serving throughout the church community, tutoring at Outreach Community Center and sharing Christ at different outreaches at Wheaton North (through Illinois School Project and Falcons for Him). I thank God that he is raising up a new generation that loves Jesus and wants to share him with others. Another highlight was Project Discipleship, a partnership with Pastor Ben Panner and College Group. Pastor Ben and his team trained many college students in one-to-one Bible reading who then in turn met with high school students in two-to-one or three-toone groups to study Philippians and pray with one another. Our hope was to see college students sharing God’s Word while also training our high school students in how to read God’s Word for themselves. Keeping God’s Word central, we spent time this past year in studies from God’s Word. In the fall we did a “survey of the whole Christian
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