{"id":2350,"date":"2019-06-20T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umc-eurasia.ru\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2019-07-16T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:36:25","slug":"christian-rest-for-grown-up-generation-in-umc-salvation-tyumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umc-eurasia.ru\/en\/christian-rest-for-grown-up-generation-in-umc-salvation-tyumen\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIAN REST FOR GROWN-UP GENERATION IN UMC \u201cSALVATION\u201d TYUMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ekaterina Zubkova<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

How does the idea begin?
\nInsensibly for us, all the kids, whom we invited for Christmas and Easter to our small church, have grown up and become teenagers, and it became uninteresting for them to play the games and to get the presents.
\nAlso it became uninteresting for those, whose parents and grandparents brought them to the church, without their peers. And one by one teenagers and youth started to retreat from the church and then from life with God. Although a lot of children were born from church\u2019s members, the lack of teenagers and youth starter to worry. We were praying and were trying to find the answer, we were looking at successful youth ministries and were asking God to show our way. In 2013 in January we met wonderful young people from Church \u201cHoly Trinity\u201d from Yekaterinburg in the summer camp. Those days\u2019 two young sisters accepted Christ and they were inspired by simple, joyful communication. We invited the youth from \u201cHoly Trinity\u201d to our church to help us organize summer camp for kids and teenagers. And in summer 2013 the group from \u201cHoly Trinity\u201d came to Tyumen with the program and the UMC member from Tyumen organized everything needful. Although the ages were different, from 4 to 14, the camp was good and was remembered. And we decided to make two camps in summer in 2014 \u2013 for children in the church, and for teenagers in the tents.
\nSummer 2014
\nThe youth group from \u201cHoly Trinity\u201d (Pentecostals) came to Tyumen with the program of the summer tent camp \u201cLight Travel\u201d and UMC \u201cSalvation\u201d prepared organizational and economic support. We are thankful to God for brothers and sisters from Baptist Church, who gave us tents, sleeping bags and other equipment, and also for Presbyterians, who helped us with transport. We all do the same task \u2013 we cultivate the youth for Christ. During these three days 16 teenagers, 4 children of servants and 7 adults had joyful communication, captivating games and serious conversations about life, faith and Bible. Last Service some kids came to repentance and other asked Jesus became their Savior and Lord from their seats. The favourite songs were \u201cBless the Lord o my soul\u201d and \u201cOur God is greater\u201d.<\/p>\n

Marina is preparing the lesson<\/p>\n

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Funny presentation<\/p>\n

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Team game \u201cwho is higher\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cChicken\u201dfootball<\/p>\n

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A special joy was that next day after the youth rest teenagers served in the children camp and helped organize the program, played with kids and were the leaders of the teams. There were 9 children and 7 teenagers. Food, transport and everything they need, organized 11 adults from the church. We organized children camp by ourselves \u2013 and it\u2019s a big victory. Per day from the camp one sister from the church died and all the church planned to go to the funeral, and then sisters from friendly church in village Shorokhovo (Pentecostals) came to help us for this time. And the camp continued. Children found out a lot about God, played a lot, talked, ate well and became tired to the evening. Both camps exceeded our expectations and plans in number of teenagers and kids and in the quality of the service, and in fruit \u2013 God multiplied.<\/p>\n

Games in the air<\/p>\n

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Finding \u201ctreasure\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the house<\/p>\n

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Soap Bubbles<\/p>\n

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Near the church building<\/p>\n

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And further\u2026 Camp is not the purpose, it\u2019s the way to help children come together and think about their faith, life and to feel a good Christian communication with peers. But the main thing is what will be after the camp. We don\u2019t want to lose everything that we gained. For today we send the group of kids and youth for Christian rest in Yekaterinburg. Let communication will become even stronger. And we pray for weekly meetings of teenagers and youth during the year. Today we invest and sow in the young generation, that they will bring a lot of fruit for Christ. Pray for us. And we\u2019ll tell you about the fruit next year. We pray for those, who has problems with organization of the children, teenager and youth ministries, in small churches. God wants that it will be in our churches that we will grow up and raise the young generation who follow Chris, pastors and missionaries. There is a lot of work, but it\u2019s worth doing\u2026<\/p>\n

Ekaterina Zubkova,
\nPastor of Tyumen UMC \u201cSalvation\u201d
\nPhoto: E. Zubkova
\nTranslate by Julia Minihanova<\/em><\/p>\n

Elder sisters- servants<\/p>\n

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