We will especially need prayer for next month as there is a lot of follow up needed from Brother Ebey's time here in the U.S. during the months of May and June.
We have 80 teenagers who will be going to our mission field in India with a group called Teen Mania (www.teenmania.org).
Here is the facebook link for the group going to India:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Expeditions-India-B-2011/165066606844812
Please be in prayer for them and our India leaders. Brother Ebey’s daughter Andrea will be the primary contact for the group. Andre is 23 and has recently completed her MBA. She speaks excellent English, and I am sure she will have 80 very good friends when the trip is over in late July.
This will be a tremendous amount of work for the India leadership, but we realized that this is a very important time in these young people's lives and if they can have a powerful experience on the mission field and see our village pastors in ministry, it will impact them for the rest of their lives. With the impact on these teens that their experience in India will have, they will be great advocates for Serve India Ministries and will have a lifelong love for India. This group will be in India for nearly three weeks, and they will be doing outreach in many public schools and working with our village pastors, helping them set up Stepping Stone Centers for village children. The area to which they are traveling has a population of 2.5 million people-- in an area the size of one of our rural counties in the USA! The landscape is littered with huge Hindu Temples, so there will be a lot of opposition.
Before they go to India, I will be traveling to Texas and speaking with the group to brief them on the area where they will be working and tell them about how Serve India Ministries is working to plant churches in the area. They will be a benefit to the village pastors as they minister to children, and this will open the door for the pastors to bring the entire family into the church and hear the Gospel.
As I have mentioned in earlier letters, this generation of young people called the Millennial Generation (those born after 1984 and before 2001) will be the dominant generation in five years. The Millennial Generation numbers 100 million people, which is larger than the baby boomers. It will be up to this generation to fulfill the great commission over the next 30 years. Right now Baby Boomers give 90% of giving in the USA, and in five years that will drop to only 22%. The problem for ministries is that the Millennial Generation donors will grow only to 10% of giving in five years; right now it is only 1%. As you can see from the attached graph, there will be a 59% deficit of giving.
Seeing these figures, I see that it is urgent that our ministry find young donors to partner with us, and we need to grow their involvement over the coming years. Thank you for praying that we can minister to these young people and build relationships with them as they return from their missions trip.
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