Teen Ministry

We invite all 6th -12th graders to come and experience God in a fun, inviting, and relevant environment @ the FLC. All students meet Sundays from 6:00 to 8:00.

Find out more about the Teen Ministry at hopstudents.org

Everything we do is built around a concept called XP3, short for “eXPerience 3,” because we feel it is critical for students to consistently experience 3 things if their faith is going to survive in the “real world.”  

Wonder: Every one of us has a desire to marvel. We are looking for something to amaze us, something to incite wonder. There's a generation of students growing up in today's church who somehow miss the wonder of who God really is and believe that He isn't big enough for their experiences.

Discovery: We are wired for adventure. We are curious from the womb. We want to explore, to see something we have never seen, something that helps us understand new things about ourselves. Many students today never make the discovery of who they are in light of God's truth, and many feel that He isn't relevant to their lives.

Passion: We long to make a connection, to make a difference, to have intimacy, romance, and companionship. Many students today fail to engage in a God-given passion to become involved in the lives of others. They don't feel He is real enough for their relationships.

These three things ultimately affect everything we do. They pull at our hearts, drive our behavior and capture our imagination. They are the levers our culture pulls to move us emotionally-to appeal to our souls.  We are all going to give our hearts to something-good or bad-to experience wonder, discovery, and passion. We passionately believe in helping students discover these three principles in the context of their personal relationship with God. In a way that demonstrates their own authentic, growing relationship with Him. Every series will strategically use these elements so that students move beyond information about God to an actual experience with Him-one that incites wonder, discovery, and passion. We want to incite wonder in the heart of a student in such a way that compels him or her to discover who they are and their passion for influencing others.