Online Missions Trip
Posted on Sunday 14 December 2008 by Greg @ 8:55 am
Filed under: Youth Ministry
I really like Tim Schmoyer. He is a youth leader in Minnesota who is truly making a difference. Tim runs timschmoyer.com, a website that ministers to youth leaders by providing tips, tools and thought provoking articles.
One of the reasons I really appreciate Tim is that he is truly committed to carrying out the mandate (aka “The Great Commission”) that Jesus calls us to accomplish. In a youth ministry world filled with a fog of “which way do we go” confusion, Tim is committed to the lost art of making disciples. He is truly helping his youth group and others to go deep and wide. He is taking teenagers deep into the Word through discipleship and wide into the world through evangelism and he is challenging other youth leaders to join him. Tim gave me so much straight up, solid input about Dare 2 Share’s Deep and Wide Youth Ministry paper that I ended up re-writing it with virtually all of his input. Tim is solid in his theology, passionate in his mission and honest in his critiques. I love that!
In Tim’s passion to go wide he has developed a killer website that I am begging you and your youth group to use. It is onlinemissionstrip.com. Tim has developed a way for any youth leader to use the web to launch an evangelism campaign through his/her youth group in a very simple way. This is truly a free missions trip. There is free pre-trip training designed by my buddy Brian Ford. There are tons of Dare 2 Share resources on this site of well. Best of all there is a follow through strategy that could truly help build your youth group with new conversion growth. Wouldn’t it be great to have all of your teenagers bring friends to your youth group that they had led to Christ online? Can you imagine the excitement and spiritual momentum that your youth group would experience?
Go to www.onlinemissionstrip.com right now and sign your youth group up. If you are not a youth leader tell your youth leader about it. The trip launches February 1st.
Don’t miss it!
Andy Harrison Reply:
January 19th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I am the director of that state event Jeremy is talking about. While someone in a personal conversation may have alluded to the idea, “The mentality is to run everything through the church building instead of empowering the church to go in the harvest fields,” that was certainly not the focus of the conference. As a matter of fact, the theme “Press On” was all about doing unprecedented youth ministry. It promoted the idea that we have to move from being a bonfire building people to being a torch bearing people, (taking the light)moving ministry to the places where people live, work, and play. I think the “edge” in ministry is not so much related to new ways of doing things, but rather how closely those “ways” reflect the ministry of Christ himself. Has there ever been anyone edgier?
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