Description: Youth mission trips have been an anchor of youth ministry programming for over 2 decades but are they worth it? Some say there’s no life-long change and it doesn’t result in long-term missionaries while others see it as laying a foundation of faith in action. We will address 3 specific questions in this webinar: 1) What’s the end goal of youth missions? 2) What are the generational trends within Gen Z? 3) What practical training and mission principles are necessary when we engage youth in short-term missions?
We will explore how our missiology and orthopraxy will answer the question for us about whether youth missions have any place in today’s church or global mission movements.
Presenter: Jesse Kroeze is a passionate innovator, a lover of culture, and a coffee connoisseur. He is known for being a deep-thinker, a peace-making leader, an avid entrepreneur, and an eternal student. Jesse and his wife, Andrea, are a power-team full of enthusiasm related to global missions, adoption and living out the Kingdom of God.
A New Jersey native, Jesse is passionate about next generational missions. For 20 years, he’s been working in youth missions at Touch the World during which time, he (and Andrea) moved to Uganda for five years to explore the intricacies of community development as the Country Director of Touch The World – Uganda. In 2013, Jesse was asked to return to NJ to lead the future path of the mission organization, Touch The World as Executive Director. Along with his wife and three children, their oldest adopted from Uganda, Jesse seeks to partake in sharing the global perspectives of missions we have been called to as Christ’s ambassadors.
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