Join us at Element on Sundays when we have church! Our MS students hear awesome and heartfelt messages, and we're starting a new series of Element Ops and DIY. The students will get to learn many skills.

We have a special talk on something that all middle schoolers must wonder about... why is it so awkward to talk about Jesus? 

One of our youth group leaders, Angel, is going to lead this talk as she explains why it feels so awkward and threatening in our culture today to talk about Jesus and Christianity with our friends, classmates, teachers, etc. 

Join us this Friday at 6:30pm at our usual hangout, 1255 Harbor Bay Parkway. You don't want to miss it!

We kicked off the new year with a great start, as all the middle school students and staff had a getaway for our annual Winter Retreat conference.

It was a weekend packed with convicting messages on repentance and God's holiness, fun games led by our high school students, some crazy dancing, and just a lot of fun time bonding and growing together in God.

We're so thankful for everything the students got to experience this past weekend, and hope that the memories from Winter Retreat stay with them as they continue into the upcoming school year. 

Check out our below pictures from our Winter Retreat:

Hi everyone, happy new year from Element MS! We look forward to all that God has to show us this upcoming year. Let's wish for the best in 2018!

One exciting thing to share is that we have our upcoming Winter Retreat soon! 

Come join us for one last time of fellowship before Christmas break starts! Middle School is having a Christmas party this Thursday 12/21, where we'll exchange gifts and have a fun time of games and eating together.

Here at Element MS, we want our middle schoolers to get equipped and deeper in their faith. Middle school is a really tough time as a Christian because you get bombarded with all sorts of questions that you aren't sure to answer, and you're just trying to navigate through Christian life. That's why at Element, we put on a new series of Apologetics for our Friday Bible Studies so that our middle schoolers can be confident of their faith!

Join us on Fridays as we go discuss these hard apologetics questions. This upcoming Friday, we'll discuss the question: Is Jesus the only way to God?

Last Friday, we discussed the question: Can we Trust the Bible?

During our post-activity, we made some really impressive gingerbread houses like this one!

It's now the month of December! Just yesterday, we kicked off the holiday season by watching our Joyland children put on their annual play about the Gospel, where they sang songs and danced and performed amazingly.

We have some upcoming events for middle school coming up: a community service opportunity on 12/16, a special Christmas service on 12/17, and lastly an Element Christmas Party on 12/21! Come join us for these upcoming events, we guarantee it'll be fun!

A couple of weeks ago, we all celebrated Thanksgiving together on Friday 11/17! It was a fun night where all the middle schoolers and staff got to remember how God has been good to us this season, and share things we're grateful for.

Check out some pictures, where we had a nice activity decorating pumpkins:

This past Friday, we had a really special night where we got to hear an engaging talk on Apologetics! Two Berkeley graduates, Jeff and Nathan, came in and shared how they grew in their faith and learned to answer some of the toughest questions about Christianity.

Learning about Apologetics when you're a middle schooler is critical - it's a tough age when you're hearing tons of different messages from the world, and it's hard to know how to answer all the things your friends ask. That's why at Element, we seek to grow our students in their Apologetics knowledge so that they can grow in confidence in the faith of Christ!

Here at Element, we put our own twist on the Halloween weekend by hosting an outreach night about masks that we wear in life. It was a fun night of eating good Halloween-themed food, watching a special skit about masks, a talk, and played some really fun games featuring ones where we transformed some middle schoolers into mummies.