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Through Foursquare maintaining amazing camping facilities, organizing retreats, and facilitating camps and getaways, room is made for thousands of people to encounter God. John Cox, NextGen coordinator for the Pacific Coast and Valleys District, recalls many instances of lives being changed at camp and explains how important it is for these to be remembered.
David and Joyce Wing have served Dover Foursquare Church in Dover, Ohio—a small town of 12,000 people in the shadow of Amish country—for 42 years. Loving people well is what this church is all about. They are known as a place where the people show friendliness and love, serve the community and give freely.
In the conclusion of our three-part series, Foursquare NextGen leaders discuss how parents and pastors can work together to create an environment for young people where they will feel safe and can explore their relationship with God.
Studies show that teens are rejecting the church in droves. How can we turn this around before we lose the next generation? By approaching youth ministry with a new paradigm that is more holistic, say Foursquare NextGen leaders. As author Reggie Joiner notes, if we want to “experience a different outcome, we need to embrace a different strategy.”
Lynn Cooper, a Foursquare children’s pastor at Life (Decatur Foursquare Church) in Illinois, recounts the night she witnessed the pure faith of a child like never before. It’s the kind of faith, she says, that can move mountains, heal the sick, and love this world, and she prays for that kind of faith every day.
When Kristen Richburg adopted a little girl from Thailand, it seemed to be a dream come true. Soon after, however, the dream turned into a nightmare. Kristen was forced to relinquish her adopted daughter and was thrust into a pit of guilt and grief. Here she candidly shares her story of healing in the face of overwhelming loss.
Foursquare Missionaries Gary and Paula Hays say no Christian missions organization has been successful planting a ministry in Chiang Phang, Thailand—until now. Missionaries have always believed they had to reach the adults first in order to see the village come to Christ. But God gave Gary and Paula a different idea: start with the children.
As 15,000 kids of all ages head off to Foursquare camps this summer, Adam Davidson, director of operations for The Foursquare Church, invites us to pray together for people and results.
Foursquare NextGen representatives from around the U.S. are excited to see what God will do in the lives of the more than 15,000 children, youth and adult campers they will host during the 2011 Foursquare camping season.
After graduating from Bible college, Mary Bennett quit her executive job and returned to her poverty-stricken birthplace to minister to children no one else would love. She has spent her life caring for these children as Jesus would. She says God has always provided everything she and the children have needed, just as He promised her 20 years before.