RHC Youth - Looking Forward to 2026

A message from our Youth Director, Matt Freddolino:

I see a horizon - a very bright horizon.

In closing out RHC Youth for 2025, I’m reflecting in abundant thankfulness for this church, these kids, and all the work the Holy Spirit is already doing. We have a big thing happening - Project Nehemiah - and we got to take hold of it and run with it this month. I called our students to respond and they answered. Setting up our new space in the old Elvis Theatre wasn’t just work, it was discipleship - the very thing I signed up for. I’ve been impressed with the students that show up weekly to our youth group and can’t wait to see more join for God’s glory.

We studied Philemon together, discovering the beautiful themes of the gospel. We read in Galatians and Romans that in Christ Jesus we are children of God, and if children, then heirs. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free. We are all sinners by nature and all children by grace.

This brings me this thought: if your kids are broken, bring em’. If they’re homeschooled, bring em’. If they’re rebellious, bring em’. And if they’re 4.0 students, bring em’. I want the drug addicts, the know it alls, the depressed, the biblically literate, the runaways, and “the born in the Christian homes”. The gospel is here - let them have ears to hear it.

Titus 2:11-14 states,
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope - the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.”

Bring it on 2026, I see a very bright horizon. Soli Deo Gloria.