Utilize Your Gift!! 

The Discipleship Training School (DTS) is your doorway to an amazing adventure in knowing God and making Him known.  This intensive Christian discipleship course begins with a 3 month lecture/teaching phase followed by a 2 or 3 month missionary field assignment. The programme is offered at eleven different locations around the Caribbean (see...more

University of the Nations 

Did you know you can DO MISSIONS and RECEIVE UNIVERSITY CREDIT at the same time?  Youth With A Mission's programs across the Caribbean and around the world together form the University of the Nations, a truly global missions university.  Your adventure begins with the Discipleship Training School (see above).  After that, you might decide to study the Bible in Jamaica for nine months, do an outreach to St. Lucia for three, attend a School of the Arts in the Dominican Republic for three months, go to Africa for three months, then on to Australia, Europe, Hawaii - the possiblities are endless!  Tens of thousands of students are part of this global network, studying in hundreds of centers worldwide . . . including several right here in the Caribbean.  Click here for more information.

Honor beyond words 

 
Psalm 27:8-9

Young children know whether they’re loved without their mother ever saying a word, because it’s written all over her face. If it’s a loving, smiling face, the children will usually grow up secure and happy. But if her face is unsmiling, critical or often absent, the children will typically develop feelings of insecurity or worthlessness.

That’s why God’s people in the Bible wanted to see his face. Their ultimate sense of worth and honor came from being loved by him. When his face was hidden (usually because of their continuing rebellion), they lost that sense of value.

Just as we draw a sense of love, honor and worth from the Father, so we also should be reflecting those to others. We can express value and honor through a variety of everyday expressionsèan approving look, an appreciative touch or just by being there for one another. It’s love that goes beyond mere words.

Do you “see” God’s look of encouragement and respect for you? How can you build others up, better expressing respect and honor to them?

Honor in action: Romans 12:10; 13:6; 1 Thes. 5:11.

Missions Minute 

Christian radio - with a heart bigger than the Caribbean!  Missions Minute is a joint effort of Youth With A Mission and the Caribbean Gospel Network of Trans World Radio.  Follow this link for a sample broadcast in mp3 format . . . and for a free taste of Oral Fuentes' Caribbean music!

Germany: Key to world revival pt.2 
by Loren Cunningham. Reprinted from MINISTRIES TODAY, May-June 1992.

Few of us realize what we owe Germany. From the very beginning, from before they were officially a nation, the German people have blessed the entire world. It seems as if God has placed a special international anointing on this people. There are five things all of us need to thank God for giving us through them:

1. The Bible in our language God gave the ingenuity to a German named Gutenberg to invent the first printing press, making it possible for Bibles to be printed in quantity and in the language of the common man. Every time you open your Bible, you owe that privilege to the German people.

2. The Reformation and the Counter-reformation
I cannot comprehend what our world would be like if it hadn't been for a German priest named Martin Luther in the town of Wittenberg. From that move of God we received the foundation for our laws, our constitution, and the understanding of what a Christian nation should be.

3. Revival Movements, from the Moravians to the Charismatic

4. Modern Missions

5. Intercessory Prayer Ministries for the Nations
Last fall, Darlene and I visited Herrnhut, the birthplace of the Moravian revival, in what used to be East Germany.

Actually, the Moravians were religious minorities who had fled for protection in the 18th century to the lands of Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf. There, they fell to quarreling among themselves over theological issues. One day, one of them suddenly realized what dissension was doing to them. He went over to a brother from the opposite theological persuasion, asked his forgiveness, and began to wash his feet. That man responded by breaking too, and asking for forgiveness. That was how revival began, a revival that eventually ended up in missionaries being sent to many nations.

Many credit William Carey with being the father of Protestant missions, but Carey said he was inspired by the Moravians and their radical obedience to the Great Commission. They even sold themselves into slavery to take the Gospel to the slaves in the Caribbean. Their cry was:

"May the Lamb receive the reward for His suffering!"

The Moravians gave us more than the idea of missions. They were the beginning of a revival thread that has stretched across centuries. Moravian missionaries made a deep impression on an Anglican priest named John Wesley, leading to his conversion at Aldersgate, and the revival that turned England around and spread to America. The roots of the Wesleyan revival ultimately flowered into the revivals of Finney, then the Holiness revival, the early Pentecostal revival, and finally in our time, the Charismatic revival and the Jesus Movement.

The Longest Prayer Meeting in History

What fired the original missionary thrust of the Moravians? It came out of prayer for the nations. They began a 24-hour prayer chain--not for their own needs, but for the nations waiting to hear the Gospel. This 24-hour prayer vigil continued without interruption for over 100 years! Thus German people gave us the modern missionary movement, revival movements, and the idea of intercessory prayer for the nations.

(to be continued)

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