MISSION: Our mission is to provide teens with a safe, positive, and drug-free, environment. Through the leadership of caring Christian adults, Rally Point seeks to give teenagers sound guidance for their mind, body, and soul using Biblical principals. The youth center also seeks to help all teenagers in the Lima community who have little positive guidance, poor self-esteem and no ambitions. The youth center is open to middle and high school students between the grades 6 through 12 (ages 12-until their 19th birthday).
YOUTH FOR CHRIST
In July 2011, Rally Point came under the Christian youth organization Youth for Christ. Rally Point falls under YFC's urban ministry called City Life. As a City Life center, Rally Point is able to gleen from a national network of urban ministries and receive resources that are geared toward urban teens. For more information about City Life please read their white paper.
FUNDING
Rally Point is funded through the generous donations of local churches, businesses, and residents that desire to see young lives changed. Rally Point also host's fundraisers through the year to support our general expences and cost of camps and missions trips for students. If you would like a representative to talk to your organiztion please contact us! To donate online click here and look for the "Rally Point" logo on the Findlay Area Youth for Christ website.
WHAT WE BELIEVE.
The Bible: the Word of God, the sixty-six Books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given of God (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21).
The One True God: existing eternally as three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ( Luke 3:22; Matt. 28:19; II Cor. 13:14).
The Lord Jesus Christ: His pre-existence and deity (John 1:1-3), incarnation by virgin birth (John 1:14), sinless life (Heb. 4:15), substitutionary death (II Cor.5:21), bodily resurrection (Luke 24:36043), ascension into Heaven and present ministry (Heb. 4:14-16), and coming again (Acts 1:11).
The Holy Spirit: His personality (John 16:7-15); and deity (Acts 5:3-4); and His work in each believer: baptism and indwelling at the moment of regeneration (I Cor. 12:13, Rom. 8:9); and filling (Eph. 5:18) to empower for Christian life and service (Eph. 3:16; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22-23).
Man: his direct creation in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), his subsequent fall into sin resulting in spiritual death (Gen. 3:1-24); (Rom. 5:12), and the necessity of new birth for his salvation (John 3:3-5).
Salvation: a complete and eternal salvation by God’s grace alone, received as the gift of God through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work (Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; I Peter 1:18-19).
The Church: one true Church, the body and bride of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-32), composed of all true believers of the present age (I. Cor. 12:12-13); and the organization of its members in local churches for worship, for edification of believers, and for world-wide gospel witness, each local church being autonomous, but cooperating in fellowship and work (Eph. 4:11-16).
Christian Life: a life of righteousness, good works, and separation unto God from the evil ways of the world (Romans 12:1-2).
Ordinances: the Christian should observe the ordinances of our Lord Jesus Christ, which are: (1) baptism of believers (Matt. 28:19), and (2) the communion of the bread and the cup (I Cor. 11:23-26).
Satan: his existence and personality as the great adversary of God and His people (Rev. 12:1-10), his judgment (John 12:31), and final doom (Rev. 20:10).
Second Coming: the personal, visible, and imminent return of Christ to remove His Church from the earth (I Thess. 4:16-17) before the tribulation I Thess. 1:10; Rev. 3:10), and afterward to descend with the Church to establish His millennial kingdom upon the earth (Rev. 19:11-20:6).
Future Life: the conscious existence of the dead (Phil. 1:21-34; Luke 16:19-31), the resurrection of the body (John 5:28029), the judgment and reward of believers (Rom. 14:10-12; II Cor. 5:10), the judgment and condemnation of unbelievers (Rev. 20:11-15), the eternal life of the saved (John 3:16), and the eternal punishment of the lost (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 20:15).
