Middle School (12:13)

Welcome to 12:13!

Offered during the first service on Sundays, 12:13 is a fun, active class designed to help Middle School students (Grades 6-8) “fear God and keep his commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Youth pastor Greg Somerville uses games, stories, audio-visual projection, and an interactive format to help these young people understand and connect with the curriculum.

When the class was launched in October 2007, students were urged to live up to the class motto, 1FEAR. The class spurs them to growth in five areas: dependence on the gospel, knowledge of Scripture, love for God and his church, service to others, and vision for reaching the world.

Teaching series in the class have explored characteristics of Middle School development (“Enjoying The Ride Of Your Life”), salvation and sanctification (“What Makes Me A Christian?”), biblical geography (“Where In The World Is Kadesh-Barnea?”), and more. The students has been enthusiastically involved in class-sponsored service projects, compiling over 40 shoeboxes of gifts for needy children via Operation Christmas Child and “adopting” three American soldiers as part of Soldiers’ Angels. Many of the students have embraced the challenge to read through the entire Bible in one year.

Between 80-100 students participate in 12:13 each week. They attend the first service with their parents in the Auditorium and are dismissed for class after the singing. Once the first service has ended, they are dismissed from 12:13 class to rejoin their parents.

For more information about the 12:13 class and to see notes and discussion questions from past lessons, visit our high-tech chalkboard—the 12:13 blog—at 1fear.wordpress.org. You may also contact Casey Somerville at with specific questions.