October, 2009
Dear Friends of Reach Out,
How 40,000 African Teenagers Came to Christ
Mind-boggling yet true
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 Charles
Juma, Reach Out's East Africa leader, has equipped 400 youth leaders in
Jesus-Focused Youth Ministry during the last four years, 280 this summer--first Kenya, then Tanzania, Rwanda and
Uganda. They apply our training in their churches and then equip others to do
the same.
Reach
Out's Eagle Leaders--pastors, youth leaders, a professor and a school
principal who oversees 1000 schools--led the charge into the schools and
streets in settings fraught with witchcraft, Islamic strongholds and high drug
use.
Epaphras,
for example, led Victor, fifteen, to Christ and now disciples him. The impact of our outreach
revolutionized the lives of 40,000 teenagers like Victor!
Isn't
this what Jesus did...and his disciples after Him?
Onesimus
Babu Jeza, Kilifi, Kenya--a new Eagle Leader--summarized what Reach Out does: Jesus
Focused Youth Ministry has revolutionized my life and ministry this past year.
Today I became an Eagle Leader. I am determined even more to pass on to others
what has been passed on to me as I mentor other leaders and disciple our youth.
May God bless the vision of Barry St.Clair and Charles Juma for Africa.
All
of this cost $12,500--32 cents per teenager! Where will you find a return on your investment like this one
in Africa?
The
economy has affected all of us. Yet, God's promise written to people struggling
financially in Corinth still stands: And God is able to make all grace
abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need,
you will abound in every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8).
God's
grace abounds in Africa--and on you. As you consider your year-end giving, I
invite you to invest in Africa and in what God is doing through Reach Out in
over thirty countries globally.
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