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Raising Money in a Developing Country

October 31, 2011 by Ryan 1 Comment
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Many people would lead you to believe that it’s not possible to raise money for missions projects in poor developing countries.  The thought is that the money must all come from the affluent church from the West or the affluent countries in the East.  Those people are wrong.  They leave out the fact that there is a generous church in developing nations often eager to invest in projects helping their own people. Today, Sunday September 18 my wife and one of our conference committee members Zat Pung traveled to Adonai Church in Yangon to ask the members to give to the Myanmar MOVE National Youth Pastors Conference.  The Conference has a goal to be fully supported within the country of Myanmar after 4 years.  The conference committee is responsible for raising over 50% of the conference costs to train 300 youth leaders in 5 days.  In turn, these leaders will put on their own camps and conferences that will reach literally …
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Filed Under: Conferences, Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: conferences, fund raising, Southeast Asia, sustain

Doers of the Word, not hearers only

October 28, 2011 by Justin Leave a Comment
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Dr. David Livermore and Dr. Terry Linhart's latest book, What Can We Do? released last month. This text aims to provide youth ministers with practical ways they can get their teens putting their faith into action. Fostering a global conscience has come to permeate the ethos of evangelical youth ministry in the past few years. A timely release, What Can We Do? follows the authors' Global Youth Ministry (YS Academic) book, which contains stories of youth workers reaching youth around the world. In What Can We Do?, the authors advocate for churches to be at the forefront of offering solution-oriented responses to how youth can make a difference today. Packed with case studies, you read real-life scenarios from youth around the world as the authors weave the stories into their teaching contained in each chapter. See, Learn, and Serve are the 3 sections of this text as the authors remind us how "twenty years ago, most North American …
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Filed Under: Media Reviews Tagged With: culture, resources, youth ministry

Get Youth Onboard

October 23, 2011 by Kristy 3 Comments
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Youth are ready and capable for ministry today. Example 173: coming out of SE Asia via the link below, which highlights youth from Thailand and Cambodia meeting together for a peace camp. Number is obviously fictitious (though I'm sure one could get to 173 examples, some of the first few were Jesus selecting 12 young men to be his original disciples and the apostle Paul's relationship and letter to Timothy) and the article doesn't actually speak about youth engaged in ministry, but rather a more general example of youth being responsible for real change within society. This story is an interesting addition to the conversation though, because it is an example where youth are succeeding (all be it slightly) while adults are failing. Google Thailand and Cambodia in the same search, and you'll immediately be introduced to the ongoing border disputes. The adults in power continue to quarrel, but a few select youth from each country are …
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Filed Under: Newsworthy Tagged With: adolescence, Southeast Asia

Praying for Visas

October 19, 2011 by Adam Leave a Comment
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Will you join us in praying for visas? This is an exciting season for YouthHOPE. We have a Chilean applying for an R-1 religious visa. He is hoping to join our development team and head up youth worker training and curriculum development, especially focused on the Latin American church. We have a Canadian applying for a spouse visa. She and her husband are currently support raising and planning a wedding. They hope to work on the development team for a year or two before being sent out as Global Youth Workers. We have a national Global Youth Worker from a creative access country in SE Asia applying for a visa to the US so she can join her husband as he travels back to the US for a few months of support raising. We have a Thai national Global Youth Worker applying for US citizenship so that no government will ever be able to tell him that he cannot be in the same place as his wife and beautiful new son. Missions is not …
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Filed Under: Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: global youth worker, prayer, support raising

Machine Gun Preacher – Movie review

October 15, 2011 by Justin 5 Comments
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Saturday, my friend, Jimmy Akers & I went to see the movie:  Machine Gun Preacher (releasing nationwide November 2nd).  Being a Christian, Global Youth Worker, and someone who has a heart for orphaned youth in Africa, I have to be honest...the movie was extremely tough to watch.  It starts out with the Lord's Resistance Army slaughtering children brutally in a scene that is way too graphic and sadly, accurate.  They force a young boy to beat his mother to death with a club in order to see what he is made of. The movie tells the real life story of Sam Childers, who has dedicated the past decade of his life to rescue children from Joseph Kony’s LRA of Southern Sudan.  After the gory opening scene, the next scene you see is Sam (played by 300’s Gerard Butler) being released from prison while telling the guards to “go-f-themselves” and then he has sex with his wife in their car.  After returning home, you watch him …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: media, Uganda, youth ministry

Where are the youth?

October 11, 2011 by Aaron 5 Comments
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I am sitting in church in the city of Velingrad, Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a country of about 7 million people. In the last census, there were approximately 64,000 people or about 1% of the population that identified themselves as protestants. Even the church that I am visiting is small, there are about 50 enthusiastic believers that sing beautifully their praises to God. The pastor is personable and has a somewhat casual style of preaching. I feel welcome and comfortable in spite of the fact that I understand almost nothing that is said (I don't speak Bulgarian). However, there is something missing. Something inside of me doesn't feel right. Then it dawns on me that there are very few faces that are younger than me (an old man of 41). I notice a few couples in their early 30's with young children, but the majority of the congregation is made up of women 50+ years. I looked around as we sang and spotted one teenager, running …
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Filed Under: Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: Bulgaria, global youth, global youth ministry

Creating a Book

October 7, 2011 by Ryan Leave a Comment
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The process of creating a youth ministry book in Myanmar started almost two years ago.  Like most things, the end product was way different than the original idea.  When we first thought of creating a book on youth ministry we imagined a single author who had youth ministry experience and was probably a youth ministry professor in a local bible college.  We actually found someone with those credentials who was living locally.  I had talked with him multiple times about taking his lecture notes and adapting them to be in a book form.  He said it was a great idea and started working on it.  As we got closer and closer to our first Myanmar MOVE National Youth Pastors Conference it was evident that he wasn’t finished and he had changed his mind about the future of the book.  We philosophically differed about the result and implementation of the plan and decided to part ways in the partnership.  That book is still not published.  …
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Filed Under: Conferences, Global Needs Tagged With: global needs, global youth ministry, resources, Southeast Asia

MTV has good Missiology

October 3, 2011 by Adam 1 Comment
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MTV embodies what YouthHOPE is all about. False, but not completely. MTV is known for TRL, Carson Daly's black finger nails and The Real World. At least that is how I was introduced to them as an adolescent. I didn't (and still don't) like music, but my brother was bigger and therefore controlled the remote, so we watched music videos often. MTV is known for many things around the world, mostly negative things within the Church. To some youth in Southeast Asia though it will begin to be known for advocacy on behalf of their peers. MTV Exit creates campaigns to stop exploitation and human trafficking. You could argue that they have ulterior motives, simply wanting to increase their brand and advertise in new circles and in new ways. Or that they actually contribute to the issue by their presentation of the female gender much more then they could ever help, so their campaigns must be viewed in the same light as cigarette …
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Filed Under: YM Advice Tagged With: missiology

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