Oxford Circle Mennonite Church
900 Howell St
Philadelphia, PA 19149
info@ocmcphilly.org

JESUS is the center of our faith.

COMMUNITY is the center of our lives.

RECONCILIATION is the center of our work.

youth

December 23, 2025

Joy and Peace During Divisive Times

By Pastor Tee FNL’s 2025 Christmas Dinner Theater. What happens when you pull together 35+ youth representing 8+ ethnic groups/cultures, add in college students and a few …

November 4, 2025

Bearing Fruit Together

By Pastor Lyllian Jesus is the true Vine. Even if your branch feels dry, the Vine is still alive. There comes a point in every church and …

August 10, 2025

Community is the Mission

By Pastor Lynn Jesus models healthy rhythms of being alone with God and being with other people. We’ve been experiencing and hearing about the importance of community …

April 17, 2024

Why Adolescents Need More Healthy Risk Taking Activities

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Can healthy risk-taking help young people deal with failure and improve their mental health? All children are creative and risk takers …

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July 26, 2023

How Can We Help Young People Understand the Power of Responsibility?

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Can young people develop into healthy adults without real world responsibilities? Since the end of the COVID pandemic, many large U.S. …

April 17, 2023

Great is God’s Unfailing Love

By Pastor Lynn, Lead Pastor Our church recently lost a 19 year old young man to gun violence.   At a time like this, when we’ve lost …

March 26, 2023

Lamenting to God on Behalf of Youth

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Young Black men are killing each other indiscriminately. We must respond. On Sunday, March 19, OCMC had a service…we did …

March 8, 2023

Are Adolescents Disconnected from the Adult Community?

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach American adolescents need access to same sex adults, not peers. Western youth are increasingly living through an extended adolescence. This …

February 25, 2023

Isolation Comes with American Adolescence

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach Native born American adolescents embrace hyperindividualism at a young age that often leads to loneliness. Ten years ago, I was …

February 17, 2023

Youth Oriented Industries: Part 1

By Pastor Tee, Pastor of Outreach What if I told you that today’s youth oriented industries have helped extend adolescence with a profit motive? Youth oriented …