CitySalt’s growing number of middle and high school students need you. Yes, you!

Volunteer with a friend or spouse to host one of our monthly youth events. The goal for these events is to accompany other spiritual and emotional growth happening for our youth within the whole of CitySalt. So these times can be either spiritually oriented, service oriented, or fun oriented. 

What are you into? Host a game night! Take a group and volunteer somewhere! Watch a movie or go bowling. Make art! Donut taste testing crawl through town. CitySalt does have budgeted funds to help support the gathering.

Contact Aaron or Heather to learn more and think through potential outings at kids@citysalt.org. Click the button below to reserve your date. (Pre-selected dates are based on a monthly rotation and are selected to work around major holidays and local school district schedules.)

Have you ever struggled with reading and understanding the Old Testament? Have you ever felt like your knowledge of the Old Testament is a kind of random collection of people, books and events disconnected from each other?

The Friesens will be hosting a 7-week small group in their home on Thursday evenings February 6th through March 20th to watch and discuss a teaching series on the Old Testament by Dr. Sandra Richter called The Epic of Eden.

Dr. Richter is an Old Testament scholar and professor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California – a gifted preacher, teacher and communicator. This study is focused on providing some basic background and tools for understanding the Old Testament. Through Dr. Richter's teaching, we will learn about the culture and geography of ancient Israel and how that knowledge can help us to be better readers of the Old Testament. We will also learn a framework for understanding how individual stories and eras in the life of Israel connect to a larger story that God has been writing since the beginning of time and which continues to unfold in our lives today.

In our times together we will eat together for about 45-60 minutes*, watch a video teaching from Dr. Richter (30-40 minutes) and then discuss together for about 30 minutes or so.

A note about Youth and Children: Middle and high school youth are welcome to participate in this study. If you have children elementary school age or younger, please contact the Friesens and they will do their best to work with you to find a suitable option for them so that you can participate in the study.

OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

There is a study guide that you can purchase to accompany the video sessions that provides some short readings and follow up reflective exercises that can be done during the week. The study guide is not required, but it available for purchase here for $23.

If you want to go a little deeper into the things that Dr. Richter covers in this study or be able to reference her content later you may want to purchase her book, The Epic of Eden. It is available for purchase here for $16.

Contact Aaron at aaron@citysalt.org for more information. *Additional information about our meal together will be shared with participants.

This is an opportunity to increase our awareness of the God who loves us through the practice of fasting from Monday evening, March 10th till Tuesday evening, March 11th.

Whether from food or something else, fasting is a historic worshipful practice that is a means for us to willfully remove or limit a source of comfort for a time in order to be more alert to the presence and sufficiency of Christ in our lives and the needs of those around us. Out of that alertness to God and others, can come a new awareness of God‘s leading – things that He is calling us to change or grow in, ways that we may have neglected His ways, and blessings and provisions that He has given us to share with others.

In addition to our monthly rhythm of gathering for Prayer and Worship on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, join in a time of fasting leading up to that time of prayer.

For those who can make it to The Box during the day, Barry Hogge will be hosting an open house drop in for 2 hour time blocks during each meal time. 7:00-9:00am, 11:30-1:30pm and 4:00-6:00pm.

Our regular Prayer and Worship time is from 6:30-8:00pm.

Submit prayer requests by contacting Abby at abby@citysalt.org or 503-522-6876 or click the button below.