79,965 Young People Hear The Gospel
God continues to amaze us with His great work!
This year's camp was no exception. Focusing on one major goal - EVANGELISM - we planned sixty-nine back to back camps. This was insane! But after much prayer last year, we felt this was what God wanted us to do. When we began the first camp in January, we knew our team would be stretched like never before. Only God would be able to sustain our energy, commitment, and passion for this enormous effort.We thank our partners for enabling us to accomplish this effort. The Rawlings Foundation generously provided the majority of the funds for this effort. The Rawlings Foundation vision to reach young people through camps has motivated us to accomplish a God-sized vision. Many other churches provided sacrificial offerings as well! We are grateful for all who share in this vision to Change The World!
Sincerely,
Greg & LuAnn Lyons
Hard Work Touches Lives
Recruiting for camp began before Christmas. We developed a strategy that would penetrate the youth population throughout Metro Manila. Networking with our public school contacts, government agencies that we had been working with, local churches, and simply getting out there going through each target community, we began to see God work. Targeting specific areas where we felt God was leading us to plant new churches, we worked hard in laying a foundation for the salvation appeal that would come.
CHANGING OUR WORLD
Our International Camp Training (ICT) Team has developed a leadership training strategy that brought a host of volunteers to a level of high passion, strong commitment, and excellent performance. Critical camp components are recruiting, programing, drama, music, communicating, logistics, information technology, media, production, security, follow-up strategy, and many others. We have been effective in training key leaders throughout each area needed to accomplish this task.The ICT Team has trained camp ministries in Cambodia, Restricted Access Nations, and Mexico. Additionally, the team has trained representatives from Colombia, Africa, and Las Vegas. We will travel to the USA soon to implement the Evangelistic Camp Strategy. Please pray for this strategic effort.
ITS ALL ABOUT SOULS
On every level, one focus prevailed...reach another soul for Christ! We committed to do our very best, sacrifice whatever was needed, to reach one more young person with the Gospel. We accept the responsibility of lowering the barriers that are placed by satan, that would hinder the young person from clearly understanding the salvation message. Frankly, this is an awesome task God has placed before us.
Camp Statistics
We give God all the glory for the results below. Our goal was to bring 70,000 young people to this year's camp. By God's grace we reached the goal!
- 79,965 Young People Attended
- 69 Camps Held
- 29,090 Dealt With For Salvation
- 1,159 Average Young People per Camp
- 6,357 Baptism Decisions
- 422 Saved Each Camp
- 1,200 Counselors Trained
- 1,668 Surrendered For Bible College
Grow your vision to reach the youth!
Conference will include...
-Developing a vision for youth
-Methods to lower barriers to the Gospel
-Youth Ministry Philosophy
-Penetrating the "4-14 Window"
-Youth Evangelism to Church Planting
-Experience Manila Evangelistic Camps...in Metro Manila where 70% of the population is under 25 years old!
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