A shelter for honest questions, built for students.
Grove Students Kick Off · Wednesday, September 9 · 6:00–7:30 PM · Bowlero, 1600 NW Courtyard Cir, Port St. Lucie. Bring a friend. Let us know you're coming
The same hope we have for adults. New life.
Our Hope for Grove Students is the same hope we have for Adults. New Life. What is this new life? It’s to live Rescued, Free, and Loved, with intoxicating Joy and Peace, and Part of Something Bigger than Ourselves.
There is a lie that often gets handed to teenagers in church: believe first, and don’t ask so many questions. We think that is backwards. Some of the strongest faith starts as the hardest question, asked out loud, in a room where nobody flinches.
So Grove Students is not a holding tank until your student is old enough for the real thing. It is the real thing, sized for the years when the questions are loudest. Your student can be fully themselves here, doubts and all, and be taken seriously by adults who love Jesus and love them.
What a Wednesday night holds.
A Place to Belong
Your student walks into a room where someone expected them, knows their name, and notices when they’re gone.
A Shelter for Honest Questions
The question they’re afraid to ask at church is the one we most want to hear. Nobody flinches here.
Caring Leaders
Background-checked adults who show up week after week and stay interested in teenagers longer than teenagers expect an adult to.
A Joyful Environment
There is always food, and there are always games. The joy isn’t bait. It’s part of the point.
Hope Found in Christ
Every night lands in the same place: not advice for being a better teenager, but a God who came looking for us.
Wednesdays, in homes, around a table.
Grove Students meets on Wednesday evenings, 6–7:30 PM, in homes. There is a reason for that. A living room does something an auditorium can’t: it is very hard to hide in one, and very easy to be known in one. Here is the shape of a normal night.
A meal together
Every week starts with food. Teenagers talk over dinner in a way they never will in rows of chairs, and half the work of the night happens here.
Games
Loud, occasionally ridiculous, and non-optional for the leaders. A student who has laughed hard for twenty minutes will say what they actually think for the next forty.
The Bible, honestly opened
We look at how the whole Bible points to Christ. Not a moral pep talk with a verse attached, but the actual story, taken seriously enough to be questioned.
Real conversation
Discussion where the hard questions are welcome and the easy answers are not. Students are allowed to disagree out loud. That is not a threat to faith. It is usually how faith starts.
You are trusting us with your kids. We don’t take that lightly.
The same standard that covers Grove Kids on Sunday covers your teenager on Wednesday. Every Grove Students leader passes a thorough background check before they ever serve, and no student is ever alone with a single adult out of view. Keeping your kids safe is the first job, before anything else we do.
And because the nights happen in homes: you will always know where your student is meeting, who is hosting, and who is leading. If you want to come see a night for yourself before your student joins, do. Nobody will find that strange.
Before you bring them.
What grades is Grove Students for?
Grove Students is for middle and high school students, grades 6 through 12. Students meet all together, with conversation that lands where each of them actually is.
When and where does Grove Students meet?
Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7:30 PM, in homes around Port St. Lucie. Reach out through the button below and we’ll send you this week’s location and introduce you to the leaders before you arrive.
Is it safe? Who is with my student?
Every Grove Students leader passes a thorough background check, and no student is ever alone with a single adult out of view. Keeping your kids safe is the first job, before anything else we do.
My teenager has serious doubts about God. Should they still come?
Yes. Grove Students is for every student, the convinced and the questioning alike, so a teenager with doubts won’t be a project or an outsider here. We would rather they ask the hard question among people who love them than carry it alone. Honest questions are welcome.
What if my teen doesn’t want to come?
That’s common, and we’d rather you not turn Wednesday into a war. Invite them once, on a normal night, ideally with a friend along; food and games have won over more reluctant teenagers than any argument has. And if they’re resisting because they have real objections to Christianity, tell them this: that is the one thing we never punish here.
What if we’ve never been to church?
You’ll be in good company. Come as you are, and we’ll help you find your way. The best first step is a Sunday morning together as a family, 10 AM at 551 SW Bethany Drive, and we’ll introduce you to the people who lead Grove Students.
How do I get my student connected?
Fill out the short form below and we’ll reach out with this week’s details. Or just come on a Sunday and ask anyone wearing a name tag. Either works, and neither commits you to anything.
Bring your student. Bring their questions.
Tell us a little about your student and a real person will reach out with this week’s details. No commitment, no pressure, and no question is off the table.