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Our Big Dream: To put hope within reach of every addict |
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October 2013
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Upcoming Training Events & Conferences
Brazil National Conference
& Staff Training School
November 4-8
Sao Paulo
South America
Conference
November 12-16
Argentina
Mexico Living Free
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November 19-20
Guadalajara
November 22-23
Merida
November 25-26
Valladolid
Europe TC Fall Leaders Mtg
November 21-24
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Greece: Intro to TC Curriculum & Addiction
December 3-8
Athens, Greece
2014 National
Training Schools
Brazil: Feb, May, Sept. Nov.
Russia:Feb, May, Aug, Nov.
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This month we have several reports from around the world of how God is using Teen Challenge to bring hope and change while Global Teen Challenge President Jerry Nance speaks of the need to celebrate the victories along the way. We pray that these articles will be an encouragement to you.
May God bless you and your ministry.
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Cherish Victories Along the Way
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Jerry Nance
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By Jerry Nance PhD, President, Global Teen Challenge
This month I want to talk to you as a leader about doing something that I believe is critical for you and your team. I believe it is essential that you make sure that you celebrate the small victories that you experience along the way to your big dream or goal.
This is an excerpt from chapter three from my book, From Dream to Reality.
When you begin the work of your dream, God will reveal glimpses of what He wants to do through you. The dream may take time, but along the way God will reward your efforts with an occasional victory. Some victories are small, and some are large. Cherish them, celebrate them, remember them, and use them to remind yourself that you are on the right track. Always remember that the people you work with, the people you serve and the people who support you are the reason you are where you are. Celebrate them. Celebrate with them and share the small victories along the way. Often, we overlook small victories and in doing so miss an opportunity to be encouraged in the Lord and to encourage others.
Your beginning days are the most difficult, but they are the days where your character is being built and some of your lifetime friendships are being formed. This is the time to look for small miracles and signs that God is indeed moving you toward the vision He has placed in your heart. During those early years when there were days I felt the vision God had given me was unattainable, wonderful victories were being played out right in front of my eyes. Let me share a testimony of a life that was changed at Teen Challenge during those initial days.
A young lady named Maurice came into the program during those challenging days of rebuilding Teen Challenge. Let me tell you that God works even in times of chaos. Maurice came to Teen Challenge at a desperate time in her life. Crack cocaine had stripped her of everything but her breath. She was literally skin and bones. Maurice had no idea of the internal struggles happening within Teen Challenge. All she wanted was help with her addiction. Maurice's life started out fine; she was an honor student in high school and was even the homecoming queen. Though she was popular, making good grades and winning awards, Maurice had a dark side. At the age of fourteen, she began experimenting with marijuana and alcohol, and by age of twenty, she had escalated to powder cocaine. Not many years later, crack cocaine became the drug that controlled her every move.
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Jerry Nance
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Answer to Prayer in Jamaica
By Anthony Richards, Teen Challenge Jamaica Director
In 2004 Teen Challenge Jamaica moved from Kingston to Ocho Rios. It was a beautiful location except for the bar that operated at our front gate. This bar has created a lot of distractions for our students and staff as well as guests and short term missionaries with the loud music, alcohol and drug use and women dancing in skimpy clothes. The music was so loud that at times it would shake our building.
So we started to pray that God would use Teen Challenge Jamaica to change our community.
 In August of this year my wife realized that the bar was closed for an unusually long time (two weeks) and suggested that I approach the owners. I contacted the owners and negotiated a one year lease with an option to purchase. After a major clean-out and renovation we painted it in our Teen Challenge colors. Earlier this month, it opened as our Teen Challenge thrift store! Like that was not enough, a donor unaware of us opening the store donated two cash registers.
Our store will be selling clothing, household goods and produce from our farm.
Praise God for answered prayer!
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Rwanda Outreach Report
In our last issue we reported on the Oklahoma Teen Challenge Adolescent centers coming trip to Rwanda and now we would like to update you on their trip.
African culture is followed closely in Rwanda and about eighty percent of the population still wear traditional garments. One of the influences of that traditional culture is that a drug addiction is very shameful, and it shames the family as well. When the U.S. TC students were able to be candid about their addictions and the deliverance of Jesus Christ, it was audacious and confrontational in the Rwanda culture, but the redemptive work of Christ was made visible. While in Rwanda, the Oklahoma team and TC Rwanda shared together daily on the radio, a message that reached across the country. Each broadcast included a TC student giving a testimony and a director preaching the Gospel. We are excited to report that over a million people had hope put within their reach. The Oklahoma team was so flooded with requests to come speak at different venues that they were not able to fulfill them all. The Oklahoma team is committed to returning as often as necessary in the next few years to help the national TC program there become self-sufficient and strong.
 TC Oklahoma team
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About Global Teen Challenge
The mission of Global Teen Challenge is to assist in the development and implementation of Teen Challenge programs around the world. Today there are more than 1,000 Teen Challenge programs in 94 countries of the world. It is our desire to provide the best and latest tools available in helping individuals with life controlling addictions. According to the United Nations, more than 200 million people worldwide struggle with drug abuse. Drug users are getting younger and their use is becoming more frequent. Alcohol and drug addictions are plaguing our nations, our cities and invading our homes. We are committed to doing everything we can to reach people around the globe with life controlling problems. For more information on Global Teen Challenge, visit our website at www.GlobalTC.org |
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Global Teen Challenge
P.O. Box 511
Columbus, Georgia 31902-0511 USA
706-576-6555
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