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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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Germany: The Key to World Revival Pt. 1
by Loren Cunningham. Reprinted from MINISTRIES TODAY, May-June 1992.
How many movies or TV shows have you seen where the villain wears a swastika and has a thick German accent? From Casablanca to Raiders of the Lost Ark, we have been raised with German villains. What is it like growing up in a land with the dark shadow of the swastika on your past...one of the darkest shadows in the history of the world? How does this affect your image of yourself and your nationality? Can a country escape its past and find itself again?
Several months ago, one of the leaders of newly-reunified Germany went to Israel and met with her political leaders. He carried a message. He asked them to forgive Germany for the holocaust against the Jews. Their answer? Not in this lifetime!
Recently, my wife Darlene and I completed a ministry tour of Germany, where I spoke --- times in --- days in 15 cities. In each place, I opened my message by reading the entire genealogy of Jesus from the first chapter of Matthew. By the time I read aloud all the "begats," along with interpretation into German, the congregation was laughing.
Why All the "Begats"?
Why did God include His "telephone books" in the Bible? The genealogies show us that our roots are important to God and should be important to us. They are a part of who we are--deny them and we die a little. Jesus accepted His roots, including Rahab the prostitute, David the murderer, and Rehoboam who ruined his country. We can never have a healthy image of ourselves--either as individuals or nations--or find God's destiny for us if we don't accept our heritage, forgiving the wrongs and being grateful for the blessings.
Most of us realize that God has a unique destiny for every baby born on earth. Each individual has been gifted in a combination different from everyone else in the world. We are each a gift to the rest of humanity, with a calling which we will either lay hold of, or allow to remain unfulfilled. If we miss our destiny, we miss the reason we were born.
God also has unique callings for every country on earth. In His Word, God makes it clear that He is the one who gives birth to nations and each nation has a destiny to fulfill. If that destiny is unfulfilled, it affects all of us.
I have given this message in many countries, but never with such a sense of historic importance as when I preached all over Germany that they should accept their roots, as Jesus did.
(To be continued...)
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Calling all “bridge” people
Acts 6:1-6
Cultural offenses in the church can be painful to experience. The church in Jerusalem was made up of Jewish believers, but not all had grown up in the same culture. Some came from a very orthodox background and spoke Aramaic and/or Hebrew. The others spoke Greek and came from a background influenced by Greek thought and customs. The dominant Aramaic speakers failed to notice the needs of the Greek widows. That same kind of insensitivity is not uncommon today.
A Dutch Christian who was hosting some American Christians was appalled at how they piled their slices of bread high with meat. The next morning she suggested eating “in the Dutch way,” serving just one slice of meat for each piece. Silence filled the kitchen as the group contemplated the meager serving. Finally one American said, “Oh, silly Dutch! Let’s do it our way!”
The dominant cultural group in a church often overlooks the sensitivities of a minority group. In most cases they don’t really intend to hurt anyone; they simply assume that everyone thinks and acts like they do. Note how in Jerusalem the Aramaic leaders responded by appointing Grecian Jews to be “bridge” people who could promote unity and inclusion.
Note the differences in those around you. What can you do to honor others’ perspectives and customs and values?
Digging deeper: Zech. 2:11; Acts 16:1-3; 17:10-14; 18:1-5; Rev. 7:9-10.
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