Hi there, and welcome to Chestnut Hill Baptist Church! My name is Mark Simpson, and with my wife Laura and our son Asher Levi, extend a warm welcome to you and your family. I serve as the youth pastor of Chestnut Hill Baptist Church and our team is excited to have you! The goal of our youth ministry is to grow in Christ, not just inside the walls of the church but also within our communities and homes. In John 15:5 Jesus says, “I am the vine and you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” How incredible is this promise? Abiding in Him, Jesus Christ. And apart from Him, we can do nothing. Our youth ministry is focused on living attached to “the vine,” Jesus Christ, as a we grow in Him and abide in Him, and further the Kingdom one person at a time. Will you come and grow with us? 

Brokenness is something that we all experience at some point in life. As we grow older, we realize our need for Jesus Christ as we navigate through our spiritual journeys. But how do we go through our brokenness? Does God even care about what we are going through? Over the next five weeks we are going to be looking at what it means to be broken and will come to the realization that sometimes, brokenness is a prerequisite for God’s work to be done in and through us.