iv. Family & Student Ministries–Vicky Parker

Family & Student Ministries

We had an incredible year in our Student Ministries department, a year full of a myriad of firsts, many highs, and a few lows. We have seen remarkable accomplishments through God in 2021 and we are so excited about what God has planned in 2022!

2021 ACCOMPLISHMENTS We began the year in a mad dash to finish all the

“Dare to Be New” environments in the Student and Children’s Ministries which included

TVs, new hallways, 80’s Café, Game Room, stages, and studios. So many people gave their time, talents, and treasure to make this happen and the result was truly amazing. Not only did we modernize our physical environments, but we created and updated our virtual environments as well, from social media and websites to easily controlled banners for our

TVs that can be changed with a push of the button, to search engines and filters to help the community find us. Our check-in system got a facelift with printers, scanners, and key fobs. We also updated DHPC’s Child

Protection and staff manuals. We continued to market our youth group, The

Hangout, to the community with T-Shirts, cards, stickers, and campaigns, all with the purpose of reaching out to unchurched students. We finished our canopy booth which serves as a welcome/registration booth during programs, and we also will be working with the schools to allow us to set up at football games and assemblies. We worked with Cactus Shadows for the games and have also begun talks on future endeavors like assemblies, music training, and parent seminars. We partnered with North Valley

Christian Academy to provide music and drama training, an assembly where we provided a speaker to speak on positive choices, and we have been given free access to set up our booth. We were also able to work with other parachurch and community groups this year. We held music/drama training for a foster care group, had a few college students serve at fun runs,

military med kit assemblies, community libraries, and more. We helped with church functions as students helped with younger children, production, shoebox packing, Fall Faith Festival, and other areas. It has been a priority to reach out to the groups that use our facilities. We have initiated a presence at Friday AA meetings (where much of our middle school growth has come via their parents), Tuesday Boy Scouts (we were blessed with a new sports court from an Eagle

Scout), and our two homeschool groups where we teach drama and production weekly. Ten people went to Summer Camp at Forest

Home in CA and we doubled that for Winter

Camp. Along with the Fall Faith Festival, these camps have helped connect our two groups from DHPC and Leupp in incredible ways. Students are looking forward to future trips. Small group high school discipleship weekly meetings have begun, and the students have had a blast growing deeper in God’s Word.

These groups have also done various gettogethers like carving pumpkins and learning to cook with Deb McDermott. They were also a huge help serving at our Children’s Jingle

Jam and Parents’ nights. We began our Wednesday night youth program which has seen growth and moved our Sunday program to evenings. Our Middle School has grown from 1 occasional attendee to 5 average attendees each week, mostly from our involvement with AA and Scouts. Finally, we hosted our first big event with the

Disciple National Tour coming in concert. For one night the Fellowship Center was transformed into a state-of-the-art concert venue, and we enjoyed watching as the community came out. Disciple is returning in April 2022.

2022 GOALS We will continue to actively reach out to the community to grow our youth and family programs and believe that once we launch the