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A Fourth Wave of Missions - The Universities...Again!
After weeks of prayer and consultation, we have decided the next core training school for YWAM Campus Ministries International and the UofN Student Mobilization Centre will be in Madison, Wisconsin beginning Jan. 4, 2010.
JANUARY IN WISCONSIN!!! Too cold, you say? Yes, for most people.
This school is not for "most people." It is for those who SEE the universities as a mission field. It's for those that know the TIME for the universities is now. It's for those who KNOW students can BE missionaries on their campus. It's for those who are willing to make the SACRIFICE of a cold Wisconsin winter.
Is that you?
The School of University Ministries & Missions (SUMM) is set to run in Madison, Wisconsin starting Jan. 4, 2010 to Mar. 26, 2010.
The SUMM was adopted as YWAM Campus Ministries International's core training program for staff and students. This intense 3-month school will equip you and connect you to a growing network of international ministries engaging the universities and students of the world. YWAM Campus Ministries are now in 70 cities in 31 countries.
The SUMM will prepare you for the 21st century mission field, emphasizing YWAM's commitment to the Christian Magna Carta. The SUMM will help you and your YWAM ministries foster a spirit of collaboration in response to dramatic shifts in the Church globally and extraordinary economic and societal crises. Are you ready?
Join us.
Get equipped to mobilize students to pray on campus and to partner on cross-cultural, serving-learning experiences.
Become a pioneer reaching the nations through university ministries. We invite you to come, get equipped to pioneer on campuses in your city.
Plan now to engage the university campus mission field near you.
If have not already done so, you must first take the 12 week Discipleship Training School. Join our DTS in Madison this fall.
Thank you, if you have read this far, you're already part of this growing movement.
Sincerely,
John Henry
UofN Student Mobilization Centre
P.S. Oh, it's not for you? Even if you can't attend this SUMM, write me to find out about the other SUMM's in India, Korea, and Colombia in 2010. Then pass this information on to someone you think will want to know.
Learn more at www.uofn.edu
The SMC is a small international network fostering a global movement of university students who are serving Christ's Great Commission through their life-work.
We believe this generation is ready for new ways, new paradigms, and a new heart to make a difference in a world that cries out for mercy, for hope, and for healing. We see student volunteers and mobilizers everywhere. They are the new international community of students and young adults seeking God for justice, for revelation, and for real transformation.
The gospel of Christ is not a private matter. This generation knows that when you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10)
By serving projects with Field Ministry Internships in the field of your studies on a summer team, you are going deeper into the call of God. You are offering more than a career, you are offering your life-work as worship.
Field Ministry Internships summer outreach teams, are for students and professionals to integrate studies with a service project abroad. Participants form small teams (4 to7 people)for these 8-week internships, while young adult graduates may join teams for just 2 weeks or more weeks.
The Student Mobilization Centre, a centre of YWAM's University of the Nations, serves student missions through seminars, consultations, conferences, and training schools taking place across the globe. We're like a research and development arm of YWAM's campus ministries.
The SMC is part of a world-wide network called Campus Ministries International. We're connecting global students migrating across this small planet. We are equipping and training servant leaders to engage their world and proclaim the good news in humility and love to our global neighbors.
Connect here to answer God's call. Tell us your story and sign up for our monthly StudentCall newsletter for global student volunteers.
"It is easy to find professionals who are Christians, but harder to get Christian professionals, who have thought through what they do from a Biblical standpoint, and can articulate that clearly." Dr. Michael Schluter - Jubilee Center, Cambridge.
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Field Ministry Internships
Field Ministry Internships (FMI), a ministry of Youth With A Mission, facilitates practical learning/serving field project opportunities for Christian university students and young adults to re-interpret their course of study/career in the light of Biblical revelation of calling to grasp God's vision for their career and how it relates to the needs of the world, especially issues of global human need. FMI has mobilized Christian student teams (typically teams of 4 to 7 students) from 107 colleges and universities in eight countries to 33 nations since 1986.
The FMI student projects are designed to confront the “giants” of impure water, illiteracy, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and material and spiritual poverty with prayer, training, service, evangelism, and mercy ministries. FMI opportunities are for students and professionals in the fields of Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Art, Journalism, International Affairs, Medical, IT & Social Work.
You decide your most appropriate contribution. You will pray, serve, and build relationships with the host community and project staff. You will collaborate with the long-term field project leaders to assess the needs of the community through interviews, probing questions, surveys, and maps. Your key contribution is the final written project report in which you research and present a proposal to complement or supplement the existing field project in the host community.
New opportunities are available now. If you wish to form a small team, or simply volunteer to serve alongside a long term team, contact us. We'll send you details.
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Faster than the fastest
A few years ago, I sensed the Lord say, "The Spirit of God is moving faster than the computer field." What does that mean to us, as God's people?
It means that we must be continually listening - and keeping up to the Holy Spirit who lives within us. But how?
-By not quenching Him with unbelief or disobedience. 1 Thes 5:19
-By not grieving Him by what we look at, listen to, or by the wrong attitude of our hearts. Eph 4:29-32
-By not resisting Him through pride or independence. Acts 7:51
Instead we should yield to Him...
-By keeping in step with Him. Gal 5:25
-By being led by Him. Rom 8:14
-By acknowledging Him in all our ways. Prov 3:5-7
The all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving God wants to lead us and give us revelation and creativity daily; but we must submit to Him by listening individually - and corporately - to find out what is on His heart.
We will see nations discipled through business, government, media, education, sciences, arts, family and the local church, if we will just stop and listen; and then walk in obedience to the voice of God through the Holy Spirit, and according to the written Word of God, the Bible.
Together we must seek Him in humility and dependence. But we need each other too.
I believe as we network with each other, as we live by Kingdom principles and as we listen to the King of Kings...
His Kingdom will come and His will will be done. Matt 6:9-10
by Donna Jordan. Reprinted from In Touch published by YWAM Associates, a ministry of Youth With A Mission. Go to www.ywamassociates.com for more information.
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A new openness
John 4:20
In the days of Jesus, Israel’s religious leaders sent out missionaries (Matt. 23:15), but their message to outsiders was something like this: Only if you follow our way can you be saved; only then can we accept you. The Samaritan woman had sensed this attitude among the surrounding peoples, and therefore she was surprised by Jesus’ openness to her.
We need to be careful not to impose our cultural traditions on others as a condition for knowing God. When large numbers of Western Dani people in Irian Jaya came to faith in Jesus Christ during the 1960s, the Western missionaries did not require them to sing Western hymns or wear Western clothes. Dani men typically wore only a gourd over their genitals. Ironically, when the Danis began evangelizing the Sawi and Asmat peoples, whose men wore nothing at all, they wanted to clothe them with gourds. They also wanted them to sing their Dani hymns.
Jesus told the Samaritan woman that old restrictions on worship would soon be ended. He once described himself as the good shepherd who had to bring sheep from many different sheep pens (other cultures) into one (multicultural) flock (see John 10:14-16). Jesus wanted disciples who would approach the sheep through himčthe gatečand not in their own way.
When you share the gospel with outsiders, what message do they hear from your behavior?
More study: John 10:1-16; Acts 10:1ą11:19;
Gal. 2:11-14; 6:12-15.
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