Global Youth & Family Ministries

me with MTW mk’s at the Asia Pacific Area Retreat in 2007

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Can I tell you about what the Lord is doing in my life and the life of Mission to the World, the Presbyterian Church in America’s missions sending agency?  For the past two years I have been able to be a part of a team of youth workers that have gone overseas on MTW’s area retreats to minister to and encourage missionary kids.  I left each of those retreats with an intense feeling of the Lord’s call on my life to work with missionary kids and to see others equipped to minister to them in a more effective way.

Mission to the World has developed the Global Youth and Family Ministry (GYFM) as part of the mission’s Spiritual Life Department.  While I have been part of this ministry through the area retreats I have caught the vision of what this ministry is doing all over the world. Our mission statement is, “to encourage and equip youth and their families around the world to KNOW Christ’s love for them, GROW in relationship with Christ and His people, and GO as agents of His grace in kingdom living.” MTW has now asked me to become part of this ministry on a full-time basis. I am so excited to be joining the team.

The vision of the Global Youth and Family Ministry at MTW is to champion Christ’s kingdom call to reach the nations and the next generation. This will involve both ministry to our missionaries and missionary kid’s, and ministry through MTW in establishing youth ministry movements around the world.  This vision rests upon the supernatural work of God, who alone can build His kingdom through the Spirit’s work in our lives together.

As part of the GYFM team, I will be coming alongside the director of this ministry, Eric Larsen, by helping him with recruiting, training, sending and sustaining youth workers across the United States and around the world.  This will start by equipping and supporting missionaries and parents already on the field.  We will also be involved in the developing ministry to missionary kids.  As adolescents, these kids are faced with the questions of identity, belonging, and destiny. These questions can be heavy for a teenager to bear when they are living cross culturally. Coming alongside and encouraging the youth and families on the mission field enables and encourages the family as a whole and the adolescent specifically to be more effective in their calling.  Missions to missionaries will have a multiplying effect as we support those reaching other cultures desperate for Jesus.

I will be involved in this ministry in many different ways. Part of my responsibilities will be to participate in key MTW events (i.e. Interview & Orientation, Area Retreats, Summer Conference, Re-Entry, MK Missions Trips and Retreats), build and maintain relationships with MK’s and families, pray, encourage and counsel MK’s (particularly girls) and organize volunteer teams.  There will be many other aspects to this ministry. I am blessed to be able to use the ministry and administrative gifts with which the Lord has gifted me as part of this team.

I am excited to join the ranks of Mission to the World as a laborer in the harvest. I am joining this ministry with MTW as a missionary and will be on full missionary support. I would consider it a privilege to have you part of my team as I follow the Lord. Would you pray about supporting this ministry financially and joining me as part of my support team?  I would love to talk to you further about this wonderful ministry that the Lord has called me to.

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