A recent study reveals that 88% of our young people will leave the church and not return! The simple fact is far too many of our kids are adopting a "Christianity" that makes little difference in their lives.
 
We believe the problem is that today's postmodern culture is so prevalent that it has distorted the very foundational beliefs of our young people and those distortions are robbing them of both understanding and experiencing the real and relevant Christ!

• To 91 percent of our kids, all truth is relative.
• To 64 percent of our churched kids, Christ came to earth to teach them how to live better so they can merit heaven.

Because of those and many more distorted views our young people are failing to see and experience Christ for who He is.

We sincerely believe we must reintroduce Christ to our young people as the one and only Savior who is

• real,
• relevant,
• and has the power to transform a dead, sinful existence into a living relationship with God.

It's not so much that we haven't presented a real and relevant Christ to our kids, it's that our young people have interpreted that Christ through a postmodern grid. The time is now to boldly reintroduce Christ so that he shatters their postmodern believing and helps them recognize that Christ is the ONE who came to transform their very lives so "they are not the same anymore... a new life has begun!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

Diamond Oaks Youth Ministry, directed by Thomas and Celeste Thompson, creates an atmosphere of excitement and anticipation of the blessings of Christ through anointed music, dramas and the presentation of the Word. Reaching out to the youth of our church and our community with a message that has stood the test of time, yet spoken in "their language".