About TNT Youth Ministry

In August of 2000, Ephrata Mennonite Church, now known as Alive Church Ephrata, began a parking lot outreach ministry for community youth. The outreach met ever Thursday night, drawing well over 100 young people. This outreach soon became known as TNT or “Thursday Night Thing”. Over the years, TNT grew from being known as a Thursday night outreach into a much broader vision. No longer is TNT a church program but an independent, non-profit organization who has developed multiple youth center locations, is ministering on public school campuses, and offering pastoral counseling to youth, marriages and families.

Above all, TNT has a heart to transform young lives by sharing the loving message of Jesus Christ. To accomplish this, we focus on earning the right to be heard by building relationships and showing that we deeply care about people’s lives and hearts. At our youth centers TNT provides fun activities, group games, devotions, and small group times. On the public school campus we provide a servant’s heart, helping students meet academic and relationship goals.

All in all, TNT is all about transformation. Our desire is for youth and adults to experience the love, joy, and hope that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We believe that loving Jesus and loving others is truly what the kingdom of God is all about.

TNT Youth Ministry Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that salvation is a personal decision made available to all by grace through faith in Christ alone and that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. The church best represents Christ to the world when there is Godly humility and unity within and between congregations and love towards the world at large.