Christian Youth Prepare for Cyber-Missions Trip

smokey the dog · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 463 Location: Michigan

Christian Youth Prepare for Cyber-Missions Trip

Dozens of churches around the world are planning to participate in a special missions trip that involves bringing Christ and His message to a huge community where the Gospel is not the most popular subject.

So far, nearly 2,000 teens have signed up for the “Online Missions Trip” to bombard popular social networking sites with stories about God.

“This is a two-week opportunity for all of us to bombard Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, whatever social places you go to online, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” explains Tim Schomoyer, the organizer of the missions trip and youth pastor at Alexandria Covenant Church in Minnesota, in the missions trip’s promotional video.

From Feb. 1-14, students from the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Bermuda and elsewhere will use the power of the internet to share Christ with people not only on the other side of the world but across the street and with friends in their school.

Pre-“trip” training on how to effectively get messages about Christ out using social networks begins on Jan. 11 and will continue until Jan. 31.

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http://christianpost.com/Missions...cyber-missions-trip-11/index.html

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Snookie · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 62

Ya know, that's a really good idea. I'm amazed at the time kids will spend on Facebook and YouTube, at least in our house and among my oldest son's friends. I tried opening a Facebook account, but I was overwhelmed and gave it to my wife to use instead. Rolling Eyes

MySpace seemed hot for awhile, but now it seems to be Facebook. Even text messages -- they seem to do that constantly. Our kids don't have cell phones yet, but all their friends do. I read recently where a girl in the U.S. sent 14,000+ text messages in one month. Amazing. There's a lot of smut-talk and pornography out there, so it's good there's an attempt being made to counteract that bad influence. Another trend among teens with cell phones - "sexting" where they do sex talk and even send inappropriate pictures of themselves via their cell phones.

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