Where Will You Make a Difference in 2020?
Where will you make a difference in 2020? Your impact can be life changing for this generation—and the next—by serving at a Breakaway youth camp this spring/summer. We have missions opportunities for individuals and teams to serve at our day camps in the Chattanooga area, our regional summer camp for at-risk kids near Greenville (Tennessee), and multiple overseas sports camps (Italy, Germany, Northern Ireland, Dominican Republic). Join us in empowering kids through communities of faith, hope, and love. Serve opportunities include being a camp counselor, leading small group Bible discussions, coaching sports, facilitating recreational activities, helping kids with crafts (VBS lessons), leading worship, preparing and serving meals, and much more. Email us for more specific details.
Kobe’s Story: From Isolationist to Leader
At one time both of his parents were incarcerated. He’s overcome so many odds to become a tremendous role model for other kids facing adversity. Kobe’s story is a testimony of how Breakaway camps are bringing kids to Christ, empowering them with social resilience, and equipping them to become leaders in their generation.
Kidmin Quotes for Next Generation Ministry Leaders
Here are some great kidmin quotes to fuel your leadership team:
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” – Dwight L. Moody
“We believe that children and young people should be the single greatest priority for Christian work in the coming decade.” – Patrick Johnstone
“If children’s work is neglected you lose the next generation.” – Patrick Johnstone
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John Whitehead
“The goal is not to be a well-rounded leader. The goal is to have a well-rounded team.” -Dr. Denise Kjesbo
“Identify your team’s strengths, develop those strengths, and then release then to thrive in those strengths.” – Dr Denise Kjesbo
“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The soul is healed by being with children.” – English Proverb
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” – Emma Goldman
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela
“Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” – Wess Stafford
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” – Ray L. Wilbur
Teaching Kids About Missions
This is a creative object lesson from Nancy Keith that is great for teaching kids about missions.
Who Will Go?
Send one child out of the room (with appropriate supervision). Give the other children a treat. As you give each child the treat, say, “God loves you!”
As children enjoy their snack, explain that there’s also a treat for the child who went out of the room.
Ask, “How will the child know about the treat? How could we get the treat to the child?”
Have the children try yelling, throwing the treat toward the door, and using any other means. Children will finally conclude that the only way to get the treat to the child is to take it to him or her.
Send one child as the “Missionary” to deliver the message and the treat. Then have both children return to the room.
Discuss how the child wouldn’t have known about the treat if the Missionary had never gone to share.
Read Isaiah 6:2-8. Then ask: “How did Isaiah react when he had a vision of God? How would you have reacted? Why do you think Isaiah said what he did in verse 5? How do you think Isaiah felt after God forgave him of his sins?”
Read Isaiah 6:8 again. Then ask: “Why do you think Isaiah was willing to go for God? What would you have said if this had happened to you?”
Discuss with children what it means to be on mission for God at home, at school, in their community, in their country, and throughout the world.