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In God’s great commission He tells all believers to ‘go’ and ‘make’ and ‘baptize’ and ‘teach’ disciples. These believers include not just adults but the entire body of Christ including kids. But what does that look like? How can parents identify and encourage their child to have a heart for the nations? For a particular … Read More
Kaylee Sedersten is a young woman of many talents. She is compassionate, bright, and insightful. God has always utilized Kaylee’s gifts for His glory; as a high school student working in kids’ ministry, a college student in a tight-knit community, as a pediatric nurse, and most recently, as an intern for Citylight’s college group Salt … Read More
If you’ve been gathering with Citylight for some time, you’e probably heard about the elder board or the term “elder”. Citylight believes the board of elders represents the spiritual leadership of the church. It is made up of five staff elders from our pastoral team and five lay elders chosen by the membership. It is … Read More
Describe why you took the class and what made you decide to do this as a family? I’ve been anticipating Citylight (CL) to do a more formal educational option for the church. The class presenting the one story, the big picture story of the bible, combined with a strong position on the Gospel. I am … Read More
Growing up I didn’t know what Advent was. For whatever reason, I didn’t remember my church talking about it. Maybe they did and I just didn’t catch it. My first experience with the Advent wreath and candles was in college. I remember feeling like we were doing some super religious thing that wasn’t about Jesus. … Read More
In his freshman year at college, Daniel Reed was invited by a friend to read the Bible chronologically. For the first time, a story was unraveled before him. Daniel’s eyes were opened to the great narrative of God redeeming His people and pointing them to the Savior, Jesus Christ. From that moment, Daniel knew he … Read More
How do you celebrate Advent as a family? One tradition that we love is we read through the Jesus Storybook Bible (JSB). A few years ago Citylight Kids had an Advent reading calendar where it went through the JSB each day and it made the bible come alive with the kids. We read it in … Read More
A few months ago, while Mike was in the hospital sitting at his girlfriend Katy’s bedside, watching the doctors slowly take her off of life support, he began to pray. He was full of anguish and heartbreak and couldn’t believe what was happening. However, unlike the last twenty years of his life, this time he … Read More