Summer Internship for young adults
As you may know, Michelle and I moved here to St. Louis by faith 3 years ago to become missionaries to America. We all know that given enough time the American Church will be looking more like Europe than like the glory days of recent modern history. There is a problem and God has revealed two solutions worth engaging.
1. God has always had a plan to capture the hearts of lost people through His simple plan of making disciples who make disciples. Making disciples is the answer and always has been and always will be. All generations can do this when clearly and simply shown how when this becomes the priority.
2. God has placed an intense inner hunger for Him in the hearts of younger generations in their 30’s, 20’s and teens. Even though these younger generations are giving up on the traditional American Church they have not and refuse to give up on Jesus. They love Jesus and seek to know Him and serve Him – but the Church in America is not reaching them.
As missionaries God has helped us discern our times as well as showing us how to capture the hearts of younger generations by giving them a cause worth living and dying for. God has placed in the hearts of these younger generations a deep searching desire for simplicity and spiritual depth, for something requiring great commitment and sacrifice and something worth living and dying for if needed.
God has answered prayer! We have been asking our friends to pray for a resort that would be open to our training of young adults. It happened today right in the heart of the Tetons'. It was a total God thing. Now, already we are recruiting 30 young adult college age student to do an internship with Disciple Driven Church this summer in the Tetons’.
I have nothing but praise to God for answering our prayers. Also, please pray that the leaders of God’s choosing will be recruited for this first time ever training. We will train, empower and release young adults to take back America for God. This bigger than us. It’s all about God!
posted by Bob Carder @ 10:26 AM
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3 Comments:
I have been reading your blogs for some time now and have explored related blogs, websites and information concerning the Discple Driven Chruch, disciple making, etc. I am excited to see the results of God's work through this ministy. I assume that you are familiar with Face 2 Face. Can you please explain the differences between this internship in WY and Face 2 Face? They seem quite similar. Are they focused on different issues, areas of growth or types of ministry? Is it mainly the leadership that is differnt? Would a person be challenged in different ways by attending one or the other trainings? Is Face 2 Face connected with the Disciple Driven Church?
Face to Face is a great thing. My second oldest son went this year and had his life transformed.
Face to Face is not "connected" officially with Disciple Driven Church but we would completely endorse L.J. and his ministry there.
The DDC internship is focused on working in areas where Disciple Driven Church has disciple making movements that are already taking place. Our team leaders work with each intern before, during and after the internship and connect them with groups of people that are already living what they will be learning.
There may be differences in the material and approach. My son could help sort that out as he is familiar with both. Email me if you feel you need more info. Our web site outlines the training focus.
In the end I think if both Face to Face and DDC internships were operating at full capacity we would only be scratching the surface of the need for such training.
Our internships will focus more like taking a group of young adults from areas where disciple making movements already exist, send them for further training and then bring them back home to serve together where they live with continued local support, mentoring & training.
Both are great opportunities.
Let's talk sometime.
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