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Youth on the Grow From Discipled to Discipling “Go into all the nations and make disciples ….” Matt.28:19 NIV


by Becky Schultz


For the past several years, Cornerstone [Mountain Lake, Minn.] youth have traveled to Dare 2 Share conferences. Tey are taught what it means to have a personal relationship with Christ and how to reach their friends with this. Tese conferences have been a successful outreach to the youth of this generation. However, this is the last year that Dare 2 Share will hold their conferences. Our youth leadership has decided to


take the training to the next level. Tey are now funneling their resources toward a ministry called Lead THE Cause (leadthe- cause.org). Tis ministry focuses on dis- cipleship training. It trains youth to start making disciples of those around them. Teens get a clear picture of the gospel and learn how to present the gospel to young and old, close friends or strangers. Tey also get hands-on experiences. From June 20–25 12 teens and three


sponsors attended the Lead THE Cause conference which was held at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Tey spent the days in training sessions with several outings where they could share Christ with those they met on the streets, putting into practice the things they were learning.


“Now I have a confidence coming home and being able to openly share and be bold.”


Lead THE Cause speakers encouraged the kids to get out of their comfort zones and inspired them to tell others about Christ. Summer Janzen told of one street encounter:


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We talked to one guy who was a high school student. He was a Roman Catholic guy, and we were explaining to him that Christianity is a relationship with God, and he was interested, saying “tell me more.” My partner John laid out the Gospel, and we asked if anything was holding him back from becoming a Christian right now. He was like “I’m too busy and don’t have time for this right now.” We prayed for him and set him up with the Bible app and some devotions on the app. Hopefully that was a seed that was planted that will grow. How did the kids feel about their


experience? Chloe Klassen summed it up: “Now I have a confidence coming home and being able to openly share and be bold.” Summer Janzen added, “Te whole trip made me more aware of people and wondering if they are Christian … now I am more willing to share Jesus with them.” It wasn’t long before Cornerstone


youth were seeing results from their disci- pling efforts. One student reported: I had a friend who I wrote a letter to, and [then] I got to talk to her in the first couple weeks aſter getting back. Te conversa- tion we had was amazing. Just reading the letter, she thought about it, and together we walked through some things that she couldn’t go through on her own. I helped her ask for forgiveness, which was a really big deal. A new event will be Dare 2 Share Live


(dare2share.org), a nation-wide simulcast on September 23. Tis one-day training event is designed to spark a movement of gospel conversations throughout the nation, primarily through teenagers. Pray for our youth as they train and


engage in the spiritual battle that is being waged daily for their minds and hearts and the future of those around them.


Fellowship Focus, September/October 2016


FellowshipForward.org


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