What about the Incarnation?

What about the Incarnation?

The theme of Urbana ’09 is that God Dwelled Among Us. It’s all about how God “moved into our neighborhood” with the incarnation.

In tonight’s general session, we explored this concept a little.

Here are my notes from General Session #1 at Urbana:

When God wanted to show us His love, He chose to have His Son here with us. The incarntation is:

The MEANS by which God reaches out to us.

  • To honor someone in the middle east, you go to them where they are comfortable just like Jesus did with us.
  • When God showed us His love, He came to us.

It is the MESSAGE that God has for us.

  • We have seen His glory.
  • We can experience His grace.
  • We are challenged by His truth.

We should not be surprised if people reject the truth today…they rejected Jesus.

It is the MODEL for how we minister.
As the Father sent me, I am sending you.

Another thing that struck me hard was this phrase: Even the darkness was not dark to you.

Urbana ’09

Urbana ’09

I’m going to St. Louis the week after Christmas to represent Youth Ministry International at Urbana ’09. Urbana is one of the largest gatherings in the world to talk about missions and see how God is moving in the hearts of His people to make Him known.

I’m getting excited and starting to pray about the connections that I’ll make during this time. I’m hoping to be able to help others find what God has for them in their lives, and I’m praying that some of them will want to join with us to train youth workers for local churches.

I’m hoping to get to blog from the event, so keep an eye on www.ymimexico.org for updates. Of course, there’s Christmas first, so I’ll be posting some pics and video from that before Urbana.

November 2009 Ministry Update

November 2009 Ministry Update

Today is the start of the Youth Ministry International annual board meeting. They asked us to make a quick video updating about out ministry. I thought I would post it here for all to see.

It’s got an interview with one of our graduates and one of our current students. Check out what God is doing in Latin America!

If you want to download the video to show in your church or small group, here’s the download link.

If you would like to help support our ministry in Latin America, check out this page to see how you can help us financially. Also, you can support our family and ministry doing normal things you do all the time.

Ways to Support Our Family Doing Things You Already Do

Ways to Support Our Family Doing Things You Already Do

You already know that we are faith-based missionaries, which means we raise our own support to live and work in the ministry God has give to us.

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5th Anniversary

5th Anniversary

Wow! I can’t believe that the Center for Youth Ministry at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary is celebrating our 5th anniversary. Tomorrow we’ve got a celebration planned to give thanks to God and everyone who has been involved with training youth workers in Mexico during the last 5 years.

We were one of (if not the first) youth ministry program offered in Latin America, and we have enjoyed the last five years. We are seeing God do many things in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and we are excited to be a part of it.

I’ll be posting more things tomorrow, but for now, here’s a quick promotional video we made for the celebration dinner:

(photo by: House of Sims on flickr)