A FREE missions trip
You're invited to join youth groups from around the world on a FREE missions trip! 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 ridiculous 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 whenever-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.
For more information about Tim and other ways he serves his fellow youth workers, visit: timschmoyer.com
Conversation
I think this is a really
I think this is a really good idea. Im in high school right now, and just getting to talk to my friends online is a great way to share Christ with them. They are always on facebook, and myspace. I would have never thought of anything like this before!
Hmm. I am torn over the
Hmm. I am torn over the concept. It seems like a good way to engage students in thinking more about God and sharing their faith. I am not sure it is the most productive way to make disciples for those you are talking to. How are deep relationships made? I don't doubt that God can't use this to initiate people's interest in Him, but I'm not sure it is the bet way...
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