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What would your teenager do for an iPad?

May 11, 2012 by Aaron Leave a Comment
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Last month, I finally broke down and bought an iPad (refurbished iPad 2 for $349!!) as prices dropped with the release of the new model. I am really anal retentive about my electronics and have to make sure I need them and that they are going to serve the purpose that I expect from them. I know I probably should chill out, but that’s what happens when you have high expectations and not that much money. As I was doing research about the iPad and whether or not I could travel solo with it, I ran across some crazy news. 1. A 17 year old named Wang sold his kidney to buy the new iPad and the iPhone 4s that came out earlier this year. Five people were arrested including the doctor and “organ broker”. The youth received $3500 for the kidney, which was sold for $35,000. …
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Filed Under: General, Newsworthy Tagged With: adolescence, culture, current events, global needs, gospel, parents, poverty, relationships, youth ministry

Business School in Myanmar kicks off in 3 days!

May 4, 2012 by Ryan Leave a Comment
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Overwhelmed with Excitement! These are the final few days before the first classes at Opportunities NOW.  It’s been a busy week doing a teacher orientation, tweaking the curriculum, and having lots of final meetings.  It’s amazing how everything has come together.  The last two years of ideas, meetings, and research are all coming together on Monday when students enter our facility to start their journey toward starting their own business. …
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Filed Under: Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: education, global needs, holistic needs, job creation, leadership development, opportunities, prayer, Southeast Asia

Impacting Business Leaders is as easy as 1,2,3!

April 18, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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We have an exciting announcement to make at YouthHOPE for the youth of Myanmar! God has opened doors for three international business as mission trainers from Chiang Mai, Thailand to train our summer internship participants and the Myanmar business community on business as mission skills.  Originally our summer interns were going to travel to a conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand before coming to Myanmar.  However, due to lack of interest from college students there, the company was forced to cancel the training. Our interns still needed training before this summer so he asked the trainers if they’d come to Myanmar instead. Their calendars were free and they accepted! It gets better!  In wanting to make their time in Myanmar worthwhile, Ryan talked with a couple of organizations in his network and the response was overwhelming.  He approached the Myanmar Chamber of Commerce about doing a two hour session with some of their …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: community, current events, education, global needs, global youth, global youth worker, holistic needs, Interns, job creation, opportunities, Southeast Asia, unemployment

The future has arrived for the youth of Myanmar

April 11, 2012 by Ryan Leave a Comment
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U.S. Moves to Normalize Relations with Myanmar What this means for holistic youth development? …
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Filed Under: Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: adolescence, business, current events, education, global needs, job creation, opportunities, youth

I misunderstood missions.

April 9, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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Much of my life I heard of people going on mission "trips".... They would often come back with a new understanding of  God and His character.  In my heart I desired stories like that, to be a part of something bigger than myself.  My freshman year of college I had the chance to take a mission trip to help build houses.  I had a mindset that  "I am going to bring these people something that they need and it is my responsibility to do it."  Our team came in, worked hard, built relationships, built houses, and then left.  I remember saying goodbye at the end of 7 days with a deep sense of heartache thinking, what's next?  Looking back I see how this mission trip was more about me than it was about those I went to serve.  Honestly, it was like I had my own agenda, wanting to fill this need deep inside of me to help others. I had an opportunity to travel to Cambodia last summer with YouthHOPE, and unintentionally, I took …
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Filed Under: General, Global Needs Tagged With: Chile, church, community, culture, global needs, job creation, Kenya, leadership development, relationships, Southeast Asia

Youth Unemployment and a Challenge to the Church

March 21, 2012 by Katie Leave a Comment
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Dozens of articles and reports by the UN, CNN, BBC, Unicef and others in the past few years have focused on the global youth unemployment crisis.  As the global economy continues to waiver and bend, millions around the world fight the effects of unemployment. According to a report by the International Labor Office, there were approximately 81 million unemployed youth between the ages of 15-24 at the end of 2009--the highest ever. Many governments and organizations are establishing programs and schemes to fight this trend, to give hope to a generation trying to find their place.  In the UK, the prime minister is planning an incentive that would give employers subsidies to employ 18-24 year olds for six-month periods.  Throughout the world, programs are starting up to train youth for small business ventures and entrepreneurship opportunities. The world seems to be taking notice of this global youth crisis, slowly, but …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: adolescence, Christ, church, community, current events, education, global needs, global youth ministry, job creation, opportunities

Potential Energy

March 13, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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I spent 4 years studying the body, how it works and functions.  Every function of the body is a result of stored potential energy.  Runners use this form of energy by positioning their legs at the most optimum angle in the starting blocks.  Divers depend on the potential energy in the elasticity of the diving board to launch them into the air.  These athletes see the advantage of positioning themselves and others on their team in a place where they can use potential energy in its purest form. On March 10th, 2012 there were an estimated 6.9 billion people in the world, half of which are under the age of 25.  If I did my math right, that is equal to 450.5 trillion BTUs (British Thermal Units) of potential energy (averaging 150 lb person) in the youth of the world.  Lets put that in practical terms shall we??  That is the same amount of energy contained in- 78 million barrels of crude oil 4 billion gallons of gasoline 1600 …
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Filed Under: General, Global Needs Tagged With: adolescence, Christ, church, global needs, global youth, missiology, mission work, relationships, resources, youth, youth group

Awareness by itself is inadequate

March 7, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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What stereotypes do you have toward a prostitute or someone who is a victim of sex-trafficking? In the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is 13, globally it’s 12. They are youth. Nearly 100% of all people who will later be trapped in sexual slavery have a past ridden with abuse and neglect. Poverty, incest, abuse, and abandonment leave youth vulnerable to traffickers who lure them with opportunities at love, a job, and protection. In fact, if we rescued every victim today, we'd wake up to a demand for 100+ million new slaves tomorrow.  The issue of sex-trafficking hits a little closer to home than we would like.  Sex-trafficking thrives off of pornography and broken families, making women a commodity and leaving men and women with a broken view of God and his bride the church. Sin is just like any disease, we must have both treatment and preventative measures. We need to have an impact at every level, the …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Gospel Tagged With: adolescence, culture, global needs, gospel, leadership development, relationships, sex trafficking, youth, youth ministry

Would you like to start a college in India?

March 2, 2012 by Aaron Leave a Comment
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During the last year, we have been talking with several different ministries in India about partnership opportunities. There are some wonderful ministries that God is working through in India and this year we will be visiting some of them to learn and look for direction about moving forward. We are very excited since the need in India is so great. Only about 2% of the country is Christian, where more than half of the 1.2 billion people living there are under the age of 25 years old. There are few places where the global youth ministry opportunity is greater. As I was reading the news the other day, the following headline slapped me right in the face “In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges”. I read the article and learned that India is trying to solve the problem of the need to educate more than 100 million young people over the next ten years.  At the moment a mere 17% of their graduates are immediately …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: Bible College, campus ministry, church, global needs, india, job creation, opportunities, partnership, poverty, students

Rap, tats and slang

February 27, 2012 by Justin Leave a Comment
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I came across an Associated Press article written a few months ago, entitled "US military legacy rubs off on Iraqi youth." The article highlights how 8,000,000 "Iraqis - a quarter of the population - have been born since the US led invasion of 2003 and nearly half the country is under the age of 19."  In 2010, the population of Iraq was 32 million people.  That means that there are 16 million under the age of 19.  It would stand to reason that half of these are likely teenagers. Roughly 8 million youth in a country that is predominantly Muslim.  96.85% according to the most recent Operation World text. While the US military spent the past 8 years fighting for apparent freedom, the negative influence on youth was "hip-hop styles, tough-guy mannerisms, and slangy English patter."  That means that they have heard of Eminem and 50 Cent, seen the Twilight movies, but have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This reminds me of …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Gospel Tagged With: adolescence, Christ, church, education, global needs, gospel, iraq, relationships, youth

A look back: ‘Ends of the Earth’ 2012

February 23, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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Check out our journey "to the ends of the earth" and hear from youth pastors about the ride. Thanks to all for your help and support to help the Hillman's reach youth in Bulgaria in Jesus name!! Click on VIMEO to see video on a bigger screen! …
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Filed Under: Featured, Outreach Tagged With: Bulgaria, global needs, global youth, global youth ministry, global youth worker, missiology, support raising, videos, youth, youth group

What If you only had $1 a day?

February 16, 2012 by Ryan Leave a Comment
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Did you ever see an episode of “30 Days” that aired from 2005 to 2008 on FX? If not you missed out on Morgan Spurlock (better known for the documentary “Super Size Me”) immerse himself in something for 30 days. Episodes ranged from living on minimum wage for 30 days to spending 30 days in prison. He actually only spent 25 days because most prisoners in Virginia serve only 85% of their sentence. Like Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days” I’ll be living off $1 a day for food for the full 29 days of February. I will be joining 2.7 billion people in the world today who live on $2.50 or less a day. Last month I was traveling a lot raising support for Mary and my ministry in Myanmar.  In the midst of my travels I visited one of my best friends, Matt Hickman, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Matt has a huge heart for the poor and is planning to start an organization in the next year and a half called “truth be told” that will …
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Filed Under: General, Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: current events, global needs, holistic needs, poverty, Southeast Asia, unemployment

“You will be my witnesses… TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH”

February 3, 2012 by B Sue Leave a Comment
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"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." -Acts 1:8 Tomorrow, our team of 12 riders will be cycling 300 miles to do what Jesus says we can do through the power of the Holy Spirit-  to be witnesses of Christ in Florida, Bulgaria, and 'To the Ends of the Earth.' God has provided a way for YouthHOPE and youth ministers from 7 different churches throughout the Fort Myers area to come together for the same cause- to reach the unreached youth of Bulgaria with the love of Christ.  Not only has God been faithful to provide riders, churches, and support for the ride,but He has also opened doors to share with the surrounding community the need for servants in youth ministry around the world.  We pray that through this ride we glorify the Father on earth, having accomplished the work that he gave us to do …
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Filed Under: General, Outreach Tagged With: Bulgaria, Christ, church, community, current events, global needs, global youth, global youth ministry, global youth worker, outreach, prayer, support raising, unity, youth ministers, youth ministry

Small Dreams

December 24, 2011 by Adam Leave a Comment
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A few months ago we had a brainstorming meeting trying to tackle our developing problem of having too much going on around the globe. It is a great problem, but we realize we have more requests from teams around the world for long-term workers to come alongside them than we could realistically fill over the next year or two. One idea that came out of the meeting was to catalog the opportunities and create a database online of job openings in global youth ministry. We ended up with not only a database, but also an interactive map. Within days of it being up and running on our website we had someone fill out an application to serve full-time in Zambia. We obviously did not expect results this quickly. The speed of the application coming in was not the most exciting bit though, but rather the location. The applicant was a Kenyan feeling called by God to do youth ministry in Zambia. We had not anticipated non-North Americans applying. …
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Filed Under: General, Global Needs Tagged With: global needs, global youth ministry, job creation, long term workers

Is There Anybody Out There? – A Global Youth Cry

November 3, 2011 by Aaron Leave a Comment
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The other day I was reading an electronic newsletter from some missionaries, Paul and Mary Triller that are supported by the local church that I attend.  I met them a couple years ago and have been following their ministry.  They are not specifically focused on youth ministry, but as their organizational goal states “empower and multiply a new generation of leaders to create movements to facilitate the expansion of God’s Kingdom,” they are intent on looking at the younger generation as a place to invest.  The following is something they wrote in their last e-newsletter: "There are about 52 orphanages in Moldova, they house approximately 6800 boys and girls. The most they can look forward to is being released after their 16th birthday with $30.00 and a bus ticket to 'home'. They are easy prey for human traffickers. They are sold into slavery. They are turned into prostitutes forced to perform sex acts from 30-50 times a day. …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: Europe, global needs, global youth
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