Awaken is the Young Adults ministry at ICB. It’s for those ages 18 and up but not only for ICB! We have always been open to receive anyone and everyone with open arms - and God has USED that in ways that have been quite unexpected.
We have been welcoming progressively more young adults from other churches around the city and non-believers alike! Many smaller churches around the city don’t have the capacity to hold events/groups outside of Sundays, so the young adults from these churches have found a home at Awaken on Thursdays, while still attending their home church.
For many of the new believers from this year, their first contact with the church and Jesus was an Awaken retreat or gathering! This year our goals were to Connect and Cultivate - connect young adults with each other and with God, and cultivate their spiritual maturity and depth.
We now have 10 community groups (started with 4 at the beginning of the year) and around 80 people attending every week. I talked about revival a few days ago and it’s exciting to see Awaken lead the way!
I’ve been part of the Awaken Lead Team ever since I started attending ICB, and recently I’ve also been part of the teaching team. This is an amazing team that God has been using in beautiful ways and I can’t wait to see what he does in 2023!
See you tomorrow for the second-to-last day!
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