• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Jubilee Church Solihull

  • Church
    • Vision and Values
    • Visiting Jubilee
      • Visiting Jubilee
      • Jubilee youth
      • Xplosion Kids
    • Meet the team
    • Life groups
    • Exploring Jubilee
    • Giving
    • Protecting your privacy
  • Equipping
  • Community
    • Children’s Storehouse
    • The Alpha Course
    • Marriage
    • Time Out for Parents
  • Media
    • Essential Listening
    • All Talks
    • Blog
  • What’s on
  • Login

Modelling a legacy

2nd June 2022 by Bernice Hopper

Tom introduces us to the legacy he and the youthwork team are promoting amongst our young people.

Modelling a legacy

It is quite a moment when you realise that the next generation are watching you and taking on board what you are doing. We maybe don’t realise that our reactions to events and interactions with others are being observed. A recent conversation with a youth team member reminded me that children and young people often pray in the same way they hear us praying, maybe not even knowing what they are praying or the complex theology behind it, but they will mirror and take on board.

This does give a sobering and serious emphasis to our work and ministry but also produces a sense of privilege and excitement in being able to part of leaving a legacy for our children and young people. As I have also been discussing with other young leaders across churches we are connected to, there is renewed sense from the Holy Spirit to raise up the next generation and release them into the gifts and calling that God has for them.

Psalm 78

As always God does not leave us to create a legacy by ourselves and something which I have been reading recently in Psalm 78 has been a real encouragement as well as a contextual clarion call to Youth ministry at Jubilee.

Vs.2 – I will open my mouth,
Vs. 3&4 – I will utter hidden things…things we have heard
Vs 4. – We will not hide them from their descendants, we will tell the next generation

We have a command to teach the next generation (vs. 5) to leave a legacy for them to tell the next generation (vs. 6) that they will not forget (vs. 7).

Intentional prayer

At Jubilee Youth this term we are intentionally teaching the young people of times when people have encountered Jesus both in the Bible and those in the church; those praiseworthy deeds of the Lord’s power and wonders He has done (vs. 4). We are also intentionally praying for and with them to have their own encounters and stories of what the Lord has done in their lives, that they may continue to the spiritual legacy to the next generation. This is all whilst we are more than aware of the unintentional legacy we leave by our words and actions from a generation watching learning how we live our spiritual lives.

Thank you Tom

Filed Under: Spiritual Legacy, Tom Millington, Youth

About Bernice Hopper

Bernice is a valuable part of Jubilee and an experienced blogger. She loves social media and has successfully experimented over the years with all kinds of creative ways of using her skills in connecting people across the world through art, textiles and the Bible!

Primary Sidebar

Signup for blog updates

* indicates required

Recent posts

  • Never Stop Praying 19th January 2023
  • We are thankful 12th January 2023
  • Emmanuel – God with us 24th December 2022
  • Our Forever King 22nd December 2022
  • Wrestling with God 15th December 2022

Categories

Vision and Values

Visiting Jubilee

Join us on Sunday at 10:30am
Visiting Jubilee About us
Jubilee Church Solihull
Meetings:
Langley Primary School
St. Bernards Road
Solihull
B92 7DJ
Office:
677a Warwick Road
Solihull
B91 3DA
0121 285 6200
Get in touch
Jubilee Church Solihull Facebook page Jubilee Church Solihull Facebook page Jubilee Church Solihull Twitter page Jubilee Church Solihull Instagram page Jubilee Church Solihull Facebook page
© 2023 Jubilee Church is part of Catalyst, an apostolic team connected with the New Frontiers network of churches, a part of the Evangelical Alliance and a charitable company incorporated in England and Wales (Company Number 8991495 registered charity number 1157124).

How we protect your privacy
Website by Nick Wilmot Creative