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I can't believe how much my life has changed in just a few weeks! Some friends from our high school football team invited me to go along to this camp. I figured, why not? Mountain hiking and rappelling sounded like a blast, and my buddies and I could run some hills to help us get ready for football.
Guess what? I did the Jesus thing! I always thought I was tough and could fight my way out of anything, but this speaker at camp made it clear that I couldn't fight my way out of my sin problem. Hell-no! Heaven-yes! Made sense to me!
More...The "mission statement" above is important, but not as important as the words of Jesus. In the waning moments of His earthly ministry, Jesus found a teaching moment with the twelve disciples, and He utilized every word when He said…
“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 ESV
This job description not only highlights the operating model of Jesus; it also illuminates our passion in Youth for Christ. We wholeheartedly embrace the “and” of Mark 10:45. Jesus came to serve and to deliver the message of transformation. He came to embrace and to liberate. “And” builds the bridge between two fundamental realities. It connects a call to action with an eternal perspective.
In Youth for Christ, our passion is to minister in the name of Jesus. When we do that, we choose to walk across the very same bridge that Jesus used; the “and” bridge between Christian service and the message of Christ’s sacrifice.
We are liberated by His forgiveness and we are propelled by His love; to invest, engage, confront, and proclaim as agents of mercy and ambassadors of truth. We are stewards of His message and ministers of His grace on high school campuses and in juvenile halls… in wide open spaces and on congested street corners… with the outcast and the overwhelmed… to the transparent and the terrified.
Our focus as a movement is on multiplying fruitful and sustainable Ministry Sites across the nation and around the world. We believe there are five essentials to establishing Ministry Sites.