About Us
Our Indonesian church teaches the value of freedom for the people here and show that Christian freedom is not the freedom to be alone. Christian freedom is a freedom that was bought at a price and thus comes at a cost; the cost of obedience. We understand what it means to willingly sacrifice, because we model it every week. We know that being Christian requires all of us to lay down our lives continuously for each other. Becoming a part of our community and coming into this experience striving to learn, beauty and family will be found and a great appreciation for the unique culture of God will be gained. There is hope to receive so much more from us that meets the eye through how we love and serve others. Our values of community and mutual obligation increase as Christians in our own spiritual formation through the experience of immersion in the self-giving culture where we utilize our freedom as an opportunity to bless our fellow believers.
Our Purpose
The purpose of our youth ministry at SPECC is to expose students to the abundant life with him that God is calling everyone into in the here and now. We desire to cultivate a desire for the good, the true, and the beautiful in the hearts and minds of all of our students and create disciples who are equipped to make more disciples and follow Jesus their whole life.
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To us, church is an all day affair in which one worships, eats, fellowships, networks, prays, and plans future social gatherings. SPECC Youth takes to heart the spirit behind the words of the great 20th century martyr and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer when he wrote, “God did not make others as I would have made them. God did not give them to me so that I could dominate and control them, but so that I might find the Creator by means of them.” We know that personhood as image-bearers of God is revealed in the face of the holy-other. Therefore, church is not a place for certain activities, but a place in which the opportunity (the freedom) to serve the other exists, and by that freedom and that service, one works out (lives into) their salvation.
Calvin College Philosopher Jamie Smith tangibly captures the ethos of worship in our youth ministry when he argues, “Implicit in Christian worship is a vision not just for spiritual flourishing but also for human flourishing; this is not just practice for eternal bliss; it is training for temporal, embodied human community.” This is the heart of the experience in which the youth ministry at SPECC navigate cultural confusion, generational and national value disparity, and mutual obligations in a beautifully imperfect attempt to love one another as God has revealed his love to them.
