Youth Group (NYI)

Welcome to the Freedom Church of the Nazarene chapter of Nazarene Youth International (NYI).

The Freedom Church of the Nazarene NYI group includes youth in grades 7-12.   We meet Wednesday evenings from 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Our teens pose for a picture during the Freedom Nazarene NYI Retreat 2017.

NYI is the youth ministry for the Church of the Nazarene, including over 420,000 youth worldwide and over 125,000 youth in the United States and Canada.

NYI President, Levi Clark

Youth leaders Kevin and Anna Smeltzer

Our NYI leaders, Kevin and Anna Smeltzer

Our Values

  • We value Young People . . . significant in the kingdom of God.
  • We value the Bible . . . God’s unchanging truth for our lives.
  • We value Prayer . . . vital interactive communication with our heavenly father.
  • We value the Church . . . a global holiness community of faith, diverse in culture but one in Christ.
  • We value Worship . . . life-changing encounters with an intimate God.
  • We value Discipleship . . . a lifestyle of becoming like Christ.
  • We value Community . . . building relationships that help bind us together and to God.
  • We value Ministry. . .extending God’s grace to our world.
  • We value Witness . . . sharing God’s love in word and deed.
  • We value Holiness. . . a work of grace whereby God, through the working of His Holy Spirit, enables us to live a life representing Christ in who we are and in everything we do.

Our Guiding Principles

  • NYI exists for youth
  • NYI focuses on Christ
  • NYI is built on relational ministry to youth in the local church
  • NYI develops and mentors young leaders
  • NYI is empowered to lead
  • NYI embraces unity and diversity in Christ
  • NYI creates networks and partnership.

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Our teens filling plastic eggs with candy for the 2017 Easter egg hunt.

NYI assembles ingredient jars for the April 2017 Bake Sale to raise money for a church field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo.

Our NYI group working the 2017 Bake Sale bright and early on a Saturday morning to raise money for the zoo trip.

SWID NYI Lock-in, Nov. 2017, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NYI Christmas Party 2017

NYI Summer Retreat 2018 – Canoeing down Sugar Creek at Turkey Run State Park

Locked Up Bloomington – Escape Room Experience, NYI Summer Retreat 2018