Life in Student Ministry » MySpace http://www.studentministry.org Conversations among those passionate for teenagers. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:41:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 LIVE Youth Ministry Talk! Join an open discussion of youth workers and youth pastors talking about life in student ministry and what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen (Eph. 4:29). Recordings of youth ministry conversations, youth ministry training videos, and more. Tim Schmoyer no Tim Schmoyer tim@schmoyer.net tim@schmoyer.net (Tim Schmoyer) 2006-2010 Life In Student Ministry Conversations among those passionate for teenagers youth pastor, youth ministry, student ministry, youth group, teenagers, training Life in Student Ministry » MySpace http://www.studentministry.org/wp-content/itunes_144x144.jpg http://www.studentministry.org A FREE missions trip for your youth group http://www.studentministry.org/a-free-missions-trip-for-your-youth-group/ http://www.studentministry.org/a-free-missions-trip-for-your-youth-group/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:08:44 +0000 Tim Schmoyer http://www.studentministry.org/?p=2455 OnlineMissionsTrip.comYesterday I wrote about why I’m abandoning outreach events and gave several reasons why “outreach campaigns” may be a more effective solution.

For several months now I’ve been planning an outreach campaign for my own youth group and am excited to have other youth groups join us! The best part is that it’s completely FREE! We’ll be going all over the world, sharing the gospel with friends both in our local neighborhoods and friends far away. It’s an online missions trip, a “missions trip to Facebook,” if you will.

The Internet has never made it so easy to share Christ with those all over the world! Teenagers spend a crazy amount of hours talking with friends on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, World of Warcraft and other such social hangouts online about things that don’t really matter in light of eternity, let’s train them to share their faith and push them to do it online. The Online Missions Trip is a 2-week campaign to empower them to use social media to share Christ with their friends who don’t yet know Him.

The structure looks like this:

January whatever-31, 2009

Pre-trip training. Use youth group meetings to train kids how to share their faith, think through the Online Missions Trip concept, and start praying for unsaved friends.

February 1-14, 2009

Online Missions Trip! During these two weeks teens and youth leaders are engaging in spiritual conversations with unsaved friends online. They’re uploading videos, photos, posting links, using status updates to share what God’s doing in their lives, writing notes, sending messages, posting on blogs, creating event invites to youth group, and anything else that will bring God up in a conversation that starts online and hopefully spreads to a face-to-face discussion.

February 15-whenever, 2009

Outreach event/series and new-believer follow-up starts. Follow-up on this missions trip with a series that helps the new teens in your ministry either investigate Christianity a bit closer or start growing in their new faith. Be sure to follow-up one-on-one with new converts, as well.

To learn more about this trip, visit OnlineMissionsTrip.com. There are many ideas, free resources and tools, a 24/7 Prayer Room, a Facebook app you can use, and more. It also has a video of me explaining the trip in more detail.

While you’re there, join the OnlineMissionsTrip.com Facebook Group and meet some of the other teens and youth leaders who will be attending this missions trip with you in February.

———————————————————————————

Thanks to YouthBytes, Dare 2 Share Ministries, and Xtreme Youth Alliance for their support, promotion, and free resources for the Online Missions Trip! Thank you Brian Ford and Michael Rothermel for all your help in creating content and tools for this missions trip that will bring teenagers to Christ! And thanks Janelle Painter for designing the Online Mission Trip logo!

Related posts:

]]> http://www.studentministry.org/a-free-missions-trip-for-your-youth-group/feed/ 16