Illuminate Youth

Mental health has become an epidemic in our society and is at a fast pace of taking out our youth. God gave us emotions, but most of the time we don’t know how to control them or use them to glorify God. This series is to help address mental health for youth.

Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

SERIES OVERVIEW: John the Baptist prepared a way for Jesus by calling on people to repent and make their paths straight. In this 4 week series we will address Making Your Path Straight, Anointing to Temptation, Follow Jesus, & The Process of a Believer. Jesus shows us that we have a part to play and Heaven is closer than we think. What will we do with this? We will give the students an opportunity to respond to Jesus' call.

STRONGER A 4-WEEK SERIES ON HURT AND PAIN Life hurts sometimes. If you haven’t already experienced it, there will be a day when you’ll encounter pain, failure, or loss. Sometimes the hurt we feel happens because of something we do, or something that is done to us, or something that is no one’s fault at all. In this 4-week series, we’ll talk about how, when life hurts, or goes wrong, or doesn’t make sense, these things are true: Jesus can redeem what’s gone wrong, God can be trusted, God gives us each other, and God helps us persevere

Joe Le-Mon is a Youth Pastor with CROSSROADS YOUTH COLLECTIVE in Youngstown, OH. He's been on tour speaking at churches and sharing his gift of spoken word. Check out his message about moving from darkness too light. Powerful!!!

Spoken Word: Spoken word is a poetic performance art that is word-based. It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play such as intonation and voice inflection. Joe Le-Mon is a Youth Pastor with CROSSROADS YOUTH COLLECTIVE in Youngstown, OH. He's been on tour speaking at churches and sharing his gift of spoken word. Check out this clip from his time with us. 

During this episode we have a conversation with three of our youth men (Luke, Ethan, & Eli). They all moved from another state and had a hard transition coming to Florida. God opened their eyes to why they should be here and you should listen to their story. Let us know what you think. 

How does it feel when someone forgets your name? We all want to be known, but are you truly known? This episode we will address that God knows everything about you. He didn't create you by accident, but He has a purpose for you. Think about that, the Creator of everything - the sun, moon, stars, universe - didn't just create you. He knows you too.