Online Missions Trip

I just sent this message out to everyone in our OnlineMissionsTrip.com Facebook Group. Thought I’d include it here for everyone else, too.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the OnlineMissionsTrip.com Facebook Group! It’s been fun to see how this group has grown as momentum for February 1-14 picks up steam.

To give you a sense of what this “missions trip to Facebook” has grown to, there are youth groups from all over the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and even a group from Bermuda that have officially registered at OnlineMissionsTrip.com, accounting for almost 2,000 teenagers! That’s AMAZING! Keep spreading the word, guys!

My group is kicking off our three weeks of pre-trip training this Sunday. There’s plenty of resources available for pre-trip training for your group.

In fact, if you’d like, here’s the lesson I used with my youth group to discuss the Great Commission and introduce the Online Missions Trip.

A student who’s going on this trip with you had the great idea of sending out support letters for the missions trip, not to raise money, but to raise prayer support. Read more about it on our Facebook group’s discussion forum.

And finally, remember to get yourself and/or your youth group signed up for the 24/7 Prayer Room. This missions trip will only make a difference in your friends’ lives if it is saturated in prayer and the Lord is working and moving. I’d LOVE to see this trip covered in prayer for two-weeks straight, 24 hours a day. Check out the 24/7 Prayer Room.

If you have any comments, ideas, questions or whatever, feel free to post it here in this group.

Have fun starting your pre-trip training this week! The Lord is going to use you guys to make an incredible impact for Him. Woo hoo!

Yeah, okay, so it’s my youth group, but that’s okay! Every week I put together a short video of youth group news and announcements and, of course, this week’s video includes information about the Online Missions Trip. Watch it below.

After months of brainstorming, praying and vision-casting, the Online Missions Trip is ready to launch! I can’t believe it! Woo hoo!!

If you haven’t checked out the video about what this trip is all about, that would be a good place to start. Also make sure you join our Facebook group to meet and interact with others who are going on this trip with you.

We’ll be using this blog to keep you updated on new resources that are added, updates about the trip, cool God-stories that people have to share about the trip, and more, so make sure you subscribe either by email or RSS (both found in the right sidebar of this blog).

As we get started, what questions do you have about this missions trip? Post them in the comments below and I’ll answer them as best I can.

Looking forward to sharing Christ with all of you! (But remember, you don’t have to wait until February 1, 2009, to get started!)