Youth With A Mission ~Ghana~

OUR MISSION OBJECTIVES: Youth With A Mission is dedicated to helping complete the Great Commission through three main areas: evangelism, training and mercy ministries. In Ghana, the objectives of our involvement include the following: 1. Reaching, raising and releasing Africans to reach the world. 2. Enlightening, encouraging and challenging Africans to see themselves as Missionaries rather than the mission field. 3. Planting churches in least evangelized and neglected villages in Ghana. 4. Bringing life and hope to the poor through our Relief & Development programme 5. Training and equipping leaders and workers for church ministries. 6. Building bridges and promoting unity among Christian leaders and churches. 7. Raising up a God-knowing and God-fearing Youth to influence tomorrow' s world.   MINISTRY PROFILE Our Main areas of ministry are: Education and Training, Church Planting, Relief and Development, Leadership Conferences and Seminars,, Children, Youth and Ladies Ministries. 1. DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING SCHOOL (DTS) The DTS is designed to enable the Christian to grow in their relationship to God and to prepare them for their part in world missions. It is residential and comes on twice in a year beginning January and July respectively. Over the past years, the DTS has brought together people of all ages from the teens to those in their sixties, representing many different denominations and cult ures, for training in the ways of God. The program made up of a 3-month classroom phase followed by a 2-month OUTREACH phase has a strong emphasis on Christian character development and personal application of truth. The main thrust of the DTS is to Kno w God and Make Him Known. The OUTREACH PHASE gives students the opportunity to put into practice principles taught in the classroom. We carry out the outreaches in a way that helps students gain experience in front-line evangelism and full-time service. LECTURES are given by anointed visiting speakers from different parts of the world and resident staff.TOPICS include knowing God and His character, Hearing the voice o f God, Intercession and Spiritual Warfare, Relationship principles, Gifts and Ministries of the Holy Spirit, Evangelism and Missions etc. The DTS is the entry point for further training and service in Youth With A Mission. DTS Workshops: We organize Discipleship Training School workshops for Churches on request. This normally takes a whole week to last. It takes place in the host Church' s premises. 2. SCHOOL OF CHURCH PLANTING AND LEADERSHIP (SCPL) The SCPL is offered through the college of Christian Ministries of the University of the Nations (U of N). It is designed to develop ministry giftings and to prepare students in a way that naturally results in effective leadership and ministry in the church. The program helps students gain appropriate unde rstanding of church life, church leadership and the role of the church in world evangelism and missions and prepares them for their role in church leadership and church planting. It is open to people at any level of Christian leadership, of varying ages and degrees of experience. The SCPL lasts for 3 months in the CLASSROOM and is followed by an INTERNSHIP PHASE of 3 or more months. The training are offered through this course is often not available at Bible Colleges and Seminaries here. SPEAKERS include some of the most dynamic leaders in the forefront of missions and modern movements in church planting, growth and renewal. CURRICULUM include CHURCH PLANTING PRINCIPLES, LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES, CHURCH GROWTH AND RENEWAL, SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN CHURCH LIFE, TRAINING AND MOBILIZATION FOR MINISTRY, RELEASING PEOPLE INTO MINISTRY, KEYS TO HEALTHY CHURCH LIFE, SPIRITUAL LEADERS ' MARRIAGE & FAMILY LIFE. 3. SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL STUDIES (SBS) The 9-month course involves intensive self-study of the Bible. Students are trained in observation of what the text actually says. They are taught the principles of interpretation, considering historical and linguistic background information, to discern what the text meant to the original readers, and from this to draw appli cation, what the text means to us today, both individually and corporately. Using these 3 steps, the student will study all 66 Books of the Bible, each of which will be read up to five times, outlined and charted. 4. COMMUNICATION AND BIBLICAL VIEW OF MAN (CBVM) The 3 month course is all about seeking God and discerning His message for your life and for mankind in general. This training programme prepares one to be more effective as a speaker and writer; enables one to impact your immediate culture and generation with communication born in Biblical principles; gives one verbal and written communication skills that assist one in future ministry and academic work; and teaches one to write a skillful newsletter, a creative book review and an original resea rch paper. 5. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Our Christian Education Complex which took off on the 4th of September 2001 on a 16-acre plot in the industrial city of Tema will include a Kindergarten, primary school, Junior and Senior High School and a Vocational and Technical Training facility. We have however started with a Kindergaten, and primaries one and two. It will be a system of education based on Biblical foundations that will help cultivate in Children and the Youth a lifestyle of wholeness that will influ ence their peers, families, churches and society. At the school, children will be brought up not only with academic excellence, but also with the knowledge and fear of God. 6. CHURCH PLANTING We are involved in church planting in specific rural areas of Ghana identified to be least evangelized. We feel challenged not only to preach to people but also establish permanent Christian witnesses in the communities we reach out to. In the past few years our DTS outreaches have targeted some of such villages in Ghana and it is exciting what the Lord is doing. Several churches have been planted and are being pastored by past DTS graduates. Light, life and hope is being restored to people who once were bound in stark darkness with hopelessness poverty and dep ravity, Occult, Islam and idol infested areas are being taken over by the power of the gospel. CHURCH BUILDINGS In every village where we plant a church we target to see them worship in their own church building. This is happening amazingly in most of the villages. 7. RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT In line with our vision to minister to the whole man, the Relief and Development ministry seeks ways to help individuals and communities stand on their feet in their area of physical and material need. Clothing and primary medical distributions, health care assistance and rehabilitation works have brought smiles to a lot of families in our target areas. VILLAGE TOILET PROJECT One other area of vital need we are tackling is the provision of decent toilet facilities for poor communities that have no toilet at all. Our goal is to work together with the native people to see decent toilets provided in all such communities where the Lord sends us. VILLAGE SCHOOL PROJECT It is pathetic to see most children in the poor villages loitering around without going to school. Most often because there are no Living' schools there. As part of our development program our vision is to start schools in every such poor village where we preach the gospel. We have already taken off in some of the villages and the schools are doing very well. The children are getting saved and they are affecting their homes. FARMS Agricultural development is another area we are focusing on. A 24-acre plot of land in a town near Tema is earmarked for various agricultural projects including animal rearing. The church in the villages are also being encouraged to go into farming. Some of the churches are already into pineapple, cassava, maize and tree farming. 8. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS As part of our commitment to working in partnership with all God' s churches and people for the fulfillment of the Great Commission we organize conferences and seminars aimed at preparing Christian leaders for effective ministry in the church. Through such seminars unity is being promoted and bridges are being built among leaders, churches and missions. We run several of these in a year - nationwide, citywide and local. 9. CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRIES - KING' S KIDS King' s Kids is dedicated to discipling children and the youth, bringing the word of God to their level and helping them develop personal relationship with the LORD. They reach out to the lost in cities, towns and villages, in schools, at market places and street corners, communicating the gospel through music, creative movements, drama, one-on-one evangelism and personal testimonies. 10.LADIES MINISTRIES Our ministry to ladies embraces ladies groups in churches, Christian fellowships and para-church organizations. We minister to them m ainly through conferences, workshops and church based teachings, designed to bring a holistic development to the lady as a Christian at home, in church and outside the church.