Friday, April 8, 2011

Training Day Friday - Windows YP Mission Conference


This coming May 2-4, 2011 the Youth Mobilization Team will hold its first Youth Missions Camp in Dinalupihan, Bataan (north of Metro Manila) at New Tribes Missions facility. Every year we conduct a mission conference where we train the youth leaders who have undergone our OMT (Overnight Modular Training) coming from different churches in the Philippines. We usually hold our conferences in Makati. But this year we have decided to conduct it  in the Province of Bataan to give the youth leaders from Olongapo, Bataan and Zambales areas easy access. 

On October of 2008 we conducted an OMT in Dampay, Zambales (6 hours from Manila) where most of the youth leaders who attended were Aetas (ethnic tribe in the Philippines).  Two months after our training, we heard that a group of youth leaders formed a group they called God’s Soul Winning Team. Their pastor told us that these youth leaders led evangelistic crusades from town to town since December 2008 until now. It was a great encouragement for us to hear that these youth leaders, caught the vision of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to different towns in the Province of Zambales. Our “labor” of training these youth leaders is not in vain indeed. It is a great reward for us to hear that the vision we have imparted to them has been carried out as they obey the Lord in preaching the Gospel to their own people.

We have invited this group to attend our mission conference in May. We want them to testify to what the Lord has been doing in their evangelistic crusades so as to encourage their fellow youth leaders in taking the initiative of sharing the Gospel to their own people. The group composed of 15 young people who are very willing to attend the conference but don’t have the means to attend the conference. They will be coming from the mountain where they live and need to travel four hours to get to the location of the missions conference. 

Another group that we invited to come to serve as volunteer staff are those youth leaders who participated in our short exposure trip in Malaysia in 2009 and in Cambodia last year. Most of them will be coming from Manila. This group is also composed of 15 youth leaders.

Both groups need to raise an amount of 1000Php ($24) each just to attend the said conference. We need to raise 30,000Php ($698) for the 30 youth leaders. We need thirty (30) sponsors who will give $24 for each youth leaders or sixty sponsors who will give $12 each. 

Please be in prayer for us as we raise funds for these youth leaders whose lives has been changed as they followed the Lord in obeying the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. 


Thank you so much for constantly remembering us and our ministries in your prayers. May the Lord bless you abundantly!

In Christ alone,

Anne Benavidez
International Teams Phil’s.
Youth Mobilization Team 
Training Director