New Testament Fellowship Church

CBN.com New Testament Fellowship Church of Alton, Illinois, is focused on meeting the needs of the next generation. In 2000 they started a Friday night youth meeting called Extreme Café with only 40 teens. Now, two years later, over 400 pay to come hang out. While there, they hear the good news of Jesus Christ. In fact, each Friday they line up just to get in!

The Extreme Café uses a dance club environment with lights, music and a cappuccino bar to attract the teens. Each Friday they are encouraged to bring their skateboards and bikes to ride the ramps outside. Extreme café might use some unexpected ways to get their message across, but they are having exciting results.

For example, Amber accepted Jesus as her Savior by coming to the meetings. She explains, "I was just one of those church kids, and then the first time I came here, I decided to get saved and I walked up the aisle. All the emptiness and all the drainage - everything that the world drained from me - was just completely filled. [I experienced] an intimacy that I had never had. It was just awesome."

Pastors Dan and Debbie Butler have devoted their lives to spreading the message of Christ.

Pastor Dan Butler explains, "We believe that just like John the Baptist, who was radical [in] the way he dressed, the way he spoke, the way he presented himself, [there should be no] compromise and a straightforward message. And this generation is that way."

That message comes through bands, expressive worship, and excellent teaching.