Pastor Mike Servello

/*Philippians 2:5-9 says…Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. */

We live in such and image driven generation. Young people that spend all their energy trying to protect their image and reputation. Its funny the things that we protect what we ought to kill. We protect our “image” but If anyone had a reputation to protect it was Jesus. But he sets the example by taking the low road of a servant. He didn’t care if he was wearing the right cloths or had the most friends on facebook or MySpace. All he cared was doing the will of the one who sent him.

I believe that God is stirring this generation to follow Christ example and begin to turn their back on the cultural status quo and aspirations and begin to make ourselves of no reputation so WE can fulfill the mission WE have been place here to accomplish.
John Wesley said

/ “Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we’ll shake England for God”./

I am excited to see what would happen in this region and nation when we cast of restraint and like Jesus and stop obsessing over public of opinion and start obsessing over the opinion of God.
God is going to do something great this year. Join me and begin to pray that your youth group will never be the same.

Pastor Mark Schilling

I believe in the ministry of the Generation Conference. To use a popular ministry/church leadership buzzword: I love our DNA. DNA is an interesting concept. I’ve had people cal me and talk to me about the Generation Conference and as ask for advice on doing a conference. I believe outside of the UNDESERVED favor of God (I cannot underscore that enough), the single greatest influence on the Generation Conference was the youth church at Mount Zion. Let me explain: I’ve seen people try to pull off conferences and their youth groups are floundering. Even worse, they try to do in a conference setting what isn’t being done week to week in their youth ministry. They’re missing a secret. See, God doesn’t want to build conference, he wants to build churches. If a conference can be used as a means to that end it is wonderful. If not, in my opinion it’s a waist of time. One thing you would hear regularly from people who attended the generation conference is: “Wow! we feel like we can do this in our church. We have a revelation of what a youth church can be!” Some of those ministries, by the way, only had a hand full of kids. When I was the youth pastor of Generation Chruch here are some of the things you would see on any give week:

1. Over 90 kids in the prayer room intensely seeking God 45-30 minutes before the service
2. Passionate worship that at times no one wanted to stop (this wasn’t every week, but definitely a hallmark of Generation church)
3. Solid, didactic, practical teaching
4. Holy Ghost ministry.

Before I went to any youth conference, as a youth pastor I would be asking myself: What does the fruit of where this is going look like.

Psalm 103:2
says, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits”…. so
bring it on we would love to hear from you