Due to the tremendous success of this first Youth Rally, the congregation has already agreed to host the Rally again next year, hoping and praying for even better results than this year. This year we had 45 teenagers attend. My challenge to both the Cleveland congregation and to our sister congregations is to have no less than 55 teens at next year’s Rally. Let this serve as a shot of adrenaline to both the young and old. Let it remind us that there is a future of and for the Lord’s church and provoke us to take seriously the work and challenge of teaching, training and transitioning our young people from being the church of the future to becoming the church of today. You are only guaranteed one life on this earth (Heb. 9:27). Can you truly say that when you die, that you have trained your replacement to take over your work and service in the church? If not consider the command contained in 2^nd Timothy 2:2, “What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also,”(ESV) Remember, “But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.” Hebrews 10:39 (ESV)

~Alex Brown

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