Strategy

Events

Throughout the year Youth Vision puts on a number of strategic events that resource local church youth ministries.

These events include;

    * State Youth Games;
    * Fire It Up Camp
    * Leadership retreats.

Missional Discipleship Tool

We believe that short term mission experiences are fantastic, but research shows that without intentional actions to ground these wonderful experiences into other cultures they can be at best, some Christian people playing games and helping out the poor in another culture, and at worst just an excuse to build up your frequent flyer points.
It is our belief from scripture that a disciple is a missionary.
Sounds like a radical style of discipleship, yes?
NO! There is only one type of discipleship shown to us in the scripture. Jesus is that model. He gave up all the honor and privilege of His place in heaven and came to earth as a human baby and ministered to us - as one of us. This is the ultimate model of what is called incarnational mission. OnEARTH is Churches of Christ recommended tool for assisting followers of Christ mature in thier faith and mission.


What Will OnEARTH Look Like?
A 14 Week (2 hours p/w plus 2 weeks away) missional discipleship experience that includes three important steps;

You could view the above three steps as a funnel, seeing step one at the wide top of the funnel, being a broad 'out there' type experience, followed by step two further into the funnel and culminating in step three, bringing these experience right home to 'where the rubber hits the road' in terms of an individual of disciple of Christ and their Kingdom mission on the earth. They will ask the questions, "Who am I? What gifts do I have to offer? And where might I better administer them?"

Cross - Cultural Mission Experience
There is one cross cultural experience to the Kimberley region of WA and one experience into Thailand, in partnership with the Thai WA Project in 2008


Local Mission and Application.
Aside from 2 weeks cross-cultural mission each participant would be committed to a 2 hour 12 week interactive small group gathering, a study called "Ignition" on the book of Acts and engaging in their own experimental missional activity in their local context.
The group would meet weekly in Menora, Perth. Country based participants would be linked via video conference or/and web interaction.

Included in the 12 week process would be a weekend away at a 'mini-mission' trip spending the weekend living and 'breathing' in the inner city ministering alongside those working with some of the most marginalized people in our city.For more information on OnEARTH email Scott Vawser.   

North West Missions

From time to time the Lord seems to lay on your heart certain things. The aboriginal people of our nation and their plight is one of those situations that has been on the hearts of the Youth Vision crew here in WA.

In December 2007 5 representatives from our Churches headed up the the Kimberly area to listen to some of the needs and ask for ways in which we as city churches might serve those in remote aboriginal communities.

The full report of this journey is found here
A video is found here.
 
Risk Management Assistance

Youth Vision desires to resource local youth ministries by providing a risk management/duty of care strategy that can be easily implemented and maintained so as to increase safety of events and programs. We recommend to youth ministries, and utilize in our own events the Childsafe package with on-line reporting and a range of products designed for Children and Youth Ministry.

Youth Vision in conjunction with Kids Vision can arrange training in Childsafe for your Church. Please email to indicate your interest in this.

 Alternative Ministry Models

Youth Vision continues to support alternative expressions and models of ministry in various areas.

Consulting

Youth Vision is available to pastors, elderships and boards for consultation on a variety of youth ministry issues and youth pastors appointments.