All about Generation Church
GC in a nutshell
Pastors Judah and Chelsea Smith are the Pastors of Generation Church. Along with the cadre leaders of GC, they have a vision to see Generation Church taking place in 10 locations reaching 10,000 young people within the next seven years. With four locations established in the last two years and a weekly attendance of over 1200 young people GC is well on its way towards the goal. Pastor Judah is an internationally renowned youth speaker ministering to thousands of young people across the United States, Canada, and Australia. He doesn't get out as much as you would think though, because Generation Church is his favorite place to be.
Generation Church wasn't born yesterday either. The founders of Generation Church are Pastors Jude and Becky Fouquier and Pastors Steve and Taffy Carpenter. Pastors Jude and Becky were the high school and junior high pastors and Pastors Steve and Taffy pastored the university students. The Holy Spirit spoke to them one day to combine the groups forming what was, at the time called "The Merger." Someone came up with the brilliant idea of calling the group made up of Junior High, High School and University students "Generation Church" and it just stuck. Actually "GC" stuck. We only say "Generation Church" to be fancy.
Pastors Jude and Becky Fouquier are now the Senior Associate Pastors of The City Church. Pastor Jude Fouquier is also the director of Generation Interns, and Pastor Becky oversees The City Church's successful cell group ministry. Pastor Steve Carpenter is now the Worship Pastor of The City Church.
A church within a church
At GC we have a saying: We "is" The City Church. That's right. Generation Church is the youth ministry of The City Church. The goal of GC is to produce young people who are planted in the church for their entire lives. The City Church is now 13 years old, and we're now starting to see couples who were saved in GC, met in GC, got married at The City Church and are now raising their kids in the children's ministry (City Kids). That's cool.
GC Staff & Pastors
You'd think Generation Church would be staffed by hundreds upon thousands of people, wouldn't you? (In fact, we are staffed by hundreds of faithful and amazing volunteer leaders, but ...) Nope! Just a few good men and woman make it happen.