Overview
The purpose of the VCYC is to comprise an official organization that provides representation for the youth of the denomination. VCYC shall coordinate their activities, channel their concerns and present their collective contributions to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
General Assembly
Ultimately, members of the general assembly represent youth leadership throughout the connection. Each delegate represents an area of districts and local churches where the Gospel needs to be spread in innovative and life changing ways. The hopes and direction of the Executive Commitee are nothing without the implemntation efforts of the General Assembly. Truly, the General Assembly are agents of youth ministry in Zion.
The General Assembly of the VCYC is also the official legislative arm of the VCYC, and the supreme decision making body of the organization.
The General Assembly functions as a legislative body at the Winter Meeting, General Convention on Christian Education, and any other times that are deemed necessary by theleadership of VCYC. Voting privileges in the General Assembly shall be granted to Presiding Elder District Presidents or a duly appointed representative, Annual Conference Presidents or a duly appointed representative, and the Executives of the VCYC.
Delegates to the General Assembly of the VCYC shall voice the sentiments of the areas from which they come. They shall vote on behalf of their constituents on all matters that come before the body.
Vision
The following is a written premise that represents the direction VCYC is under during the 2006-2010 quadrennium. Ultimately VCYC is taking worship, leadership and ministry to the next level.
A Letter to the Generation
The Vision Unfolds
Part I
It hurts me that I know, what we as a generation seem to forsake. I know that we are a generation of purpose. I know that God has called us, anointed us and set us apart for a use that only He can define with a value that is inherently His. Despite our divine worth, both society at large and the church in particular, picks over us. We’re hardly recognized or
edified and then we are usually abandoned. We begin to believe that we are worthless and we never come to know our intrinsic value. Subsequently, we look to the world and its popular culture to knight us with material significance and the comfort of being apart of the prevailing norm.
Popularity and wealth is what we settle for, but what do we really want? We want love, we want truth, we want comfort, we want protection, we want to be wanted, we want to bebelieved in, we want to be held, we want understanding, and we try to attain what we desire by any means necessary. We find ourselves in bad relationships, living in sin, and consumed with iniquity. Why? Because we fail to realize that what we yearn for is God.
What does God want from us? God wants us to want Him. Yet, we search for Him in human form as if He had not already revealed Himself in that way. We make people idols trying to receive from them what only God can give, placing them on pedestals where they will never be able to stand, and expecting from them what only God can produce. I have to believe, that if we would stop to consider our plight and the predicament that we find ourselves in, then we would come to the conclusion that we cannot settle for surrendering to any other entity than God and living for any other reason than His purpose for our lives. Yet, there is a principality in this world that will at all costs seek to prevent us from coming to that revelation; from realizing that everything that we were created for is in and from God.
I am convinced that our time is now. Now is our time to live like we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. Now is our time to walk in our purpose…
Part II
There is a movement stirring where God is calling us to a place of authority through the demonstration of His power. He is eliminating the excuses of intangibility and enveloping us with His manifest presence. That means that, yes, God is real. Yes, when His glory descends corporately and when we walk in Him individually, we realize that He is more than a boring
sermon, our grandmother’s testimony, and a reason to ask for an offering. We realize that He is sovereign and that in Him are all things. The spiritual atmosphere of God’s call to this present generation is dissimilar to that of God’s call on Samuel (when the word of the Lord was rare and without widespread revelation). On the contrary, we’re walking in the fruition of prophesy; where God is pouring out His Spirit on all flesh, sons and daughters prophesy, old men dream dreams and
young men see visions. We will approach valleys of dry bones that we will be able to prophesy unto life!
That’s of course, if we don’t miss the movement. Participation is not mandatory, it is voluntary, an exercise of your free will inline with God’s. It will require us to break through religious spirits, of works without faith, unto a relationship with God where faith births greater works. Even though we were born into sin, living in the condition of our iniquity will separate us from our purpose and His power, and the time has come when the true worshippers will worship Him in spirit and in truth. We have to be reconciled in Christ in order to operate in the intention of our creation and not by the dictate of fallen humanity.
Will we, in an effort to please God and impact our generation, rise up out of our mess to be immersed in God through the blood of Christ Jesus? Will we journey past the confession of our salvation into the depths of His heart where it hurts us not to live saved? Will we give God our reasonable sacrifice and live worship? I believe that we will. There is more in store for us than the inheritance of a battered institution. There is more at stake than the heritage of our traditions; there are souls in the balance; ministries to be developed; leaders to be birthed.
In Him,
Vajaah E. Parker
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