Sunday Services

Junior High Students (grade 6-8) will meet in the youth room upstairs at our Orangeville site during both services. They will be dismissed after the worship time and head upstairs to the youth room via the stairs to the children’s ministry. Together, they’ll learn from an age appropriate teaching and be released to return downstairs at the end of the service.

Parent Newsletters

You can also check out our Junior High Parent Newsletter and Senior High Parent Newsletter to stay informed with everything going on in our youth programs.

About Compass Students

Compass Students is a ministry focused on reaching students in junior high (grades 6-8), senior high (grades 9-12) and young adults (ages 18-28) to share the love of Christ in environments that are welcoming, intentional, safe and fun. Our mission is ultimately an extension of the mission of Compass Community Church, which is "to glorify God by making disciples who love Him completely and others sacrificially."

In order to connect, thrive and commit, we seek to focus on the following values;

  • Grow the student ministry community (numerically, geographically and spiritually)

  • Provide Christ centered teaching

  • Create committed leaders

  • Encourage engaged parents

  • Offer regular compassion experiences (missions/serving)

  • Develop leaders

We live out this mission by creating spaces and conversations that allow students to connect to Christ and each other, which allows them to thrive in their faith. We then create next steps of engagement that allows them to grow in their faith journey's when they commit to serve using the gifts and talents God has given them.

What do we do?

Weekly Events

Each week we meet as a group and, generally, our nights have three parts.

  • Games, fun, and free time to be with friends.

  • Teaching, sometimes by video or in person, but always bible based.

  • Small groups gather by grade to go deeper in the teaching and in relationship with each other.

Special Events

Around once every four-six weeks, we change up our weekly gatherings to just have fun. These events are also designed to be easy opportunities to invite new friends. Some of our past special events have included:

  • Themed game nights (ie. minute to win it, pizza party, all-nighters, etc.). We try to keep these events free.

  • Canada Wonderland Trip

  • Beach Day Trip

  • Trick or Treat for Hope

  • and many more

Retreats

Retreats are special moments when students get to spend a full weekend with friends. Some retreats are designed to be a slow-paced, relaxing weekend with our own group and others are high energy, non stop movement with hundreds of other students from across the province. Retreats always include times of worship, community and biblical teaching.

Compass Students Mission Experience Opportunities

We are strong believers in the value and life long impact that Short Term Mission Experiences can have on a person. One of our goals is to participate in the transformation of a community for the Kingdom of God. While on mission, we are able to work towards the goal of transformation by building relationships, working side by side with locals and supporting Kingdom work with our resources. However, something almost more profound also happens to the team that goes. People consistently wonder, after spending time on mission, who was blessed more. While serving we:

 
 

  • Live in community together. Eat, play, work, and sometimes even cry together. When living in close community each day we learn to work with conflict and grow as a team that leads to personal growth.

  • Worship and learn biblical truths daily. Whether we are singing, reading scripture or discussing deep issues like systematic injustice in our broken world, teams marinate in Kingdom thinking each day they are away from home.

  • Work and play outside our comfort zones. Whether teams are leading a game in a foreign language or working alongside locals to build something, they are often called out of their comfortable places to participate in ministry work. Most times, people are surprised at what they can accomplish too!

  • Get a break from technology. More and more this is becoming a valuable bonus on mission experiences. We are so programmed to need our tech that we often don’t realize that it owns us instead. Experiencing missions gives us permission to take a deep breath away from our tech to focus on the people around us, and it is always good!

 
 
 

If you would like to connect with our Interim Director of Student Ministry, Tymon Kozlowski
feel free to email or call the office at 519-941-4790.