{"id":4577,"date":"2015-10-15T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T13:15:09","slug":"youth-missions-focus-at-grace-morton-yields-long-term-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/youth-missions-focus-at-grace-morton-yields-long-term-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth missions focus at Grace Morton yields long-term results"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a generation of leaders rising up at Grace Evangelical Church <\/a>in Morton, Illinois, and they have a heart for missions. It\u2019s all part of an intentional effort to help young people embrace the church\u2019s mission focus, and it\u2019s working. Some young adults who grew up at Grace have taken a semester or yearlong break from university studies to serve in missions overseas. Others are considering lifelong mission work, while still others have new eyes to support global missions prayerfully and financially, both now and after college.<\/p>\n

Each of these young adults has been exposed early and often to a new way of looking at the world and God\u2019s work in it, not only through Sunday school and Bible study, but also through a wide variety of hands-on mission experiences and evangelism training. Beginning in junior high, Grace youth can participate in a \u201cSee the City\u201d one-day event, where they travel to a new place and learn to experience it through the eyes of Christ. Then it\u2019s on to \u201cSeven Cities in Seven Days,\u201d where they see God at work in different ways in different places.<\/p>\n

In high school, the training expands to hands-on evangelism through camp counseling experiences, Dare2Share events, and mission conferences, culminating in an overseas missions trip during the junior or senior year. Tim Bertsche, pastor of missions and people care, explains the church\u2019s focus on missions with its young people. \u201cWe want to help kids see the world outside of themselves and build a Biblical foundation for missions, not just in the head but in the heart.\u201d To learn more, visit gracemorton.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a generation of leaders rising up at Grace Evangelical Church in Morton, Illinois, and they have a heart for missions. It\u2019s all part of an intentional effort to help young people embrace the church\u2019s mission focus, and it\u2019s working. 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