Posts Tagged ‘youth’
God Doesn’t Forget: Serving GEM Teens Across Europe
You may have heard that life on the mission field isn’t always easy for cross-cultural workers, but have you considered its impact on their children? What specific challenges do teenagers face? Do they experience the same highs and lows as their parents? Do they naturally follow in their parents’ missional footsteps, or do these third…
Read MoreChurch Planting in a Paris Montessori School
Picture this: a Montessori school in the twelfth neighbourhood of Paris, full of barefoot twenty- and thirty-year-olds singing worship songs in front of a projector. Piles of children’s books, games, brass bells, and bits of bark and leaves lie next to Bibles and jackets. Curious passersby glance through the windows at the group, perplexed. Upon…
Read MoreDrone Ministry in Germany: How God is Using an Unlikely Hobby
From the beginning, the tiny, electric drones drew more boys than girls. Not that girls weren’t invited! All were welcome at the drone camps, but GEM workers Jonathan Bachman, Jeff Gage, and Rick Winford noticed that boys between the ages of 11 and 15 tended to show up and kept coming. When they held the…
Read MoreYouth Ministry to Ukrainian Refugees in Prague
Olena Nineteen-year-old Olena’s mother took it upon herself to call the leaders of the Thursday night youth group. Ever since she and her daughter fled Ukraine after the conflict began in 2022, they had lived in Prague but still had neither friends nor a strong social network to support them. When Olena’s mother heard about…
Read MoreVideo: A Testimony of Hope and Healing
Growing up in a home that was unsafe and unsteady, Kelsey was forced to move across her home country of Belgium at a young age. Fighting through suicidal thoughts and depression, Kelsey saw no future for herself. Just as she was about to give up, she met Aggie, a GEM worker serving in Belgium. Through…
Read MoreMinistering to Missionary Kids at Black Forest Academy
Outside a small town in the Black Forest of Germany, twenty high school boys circle up on a basketball court. As the sun sinks below the hills, they yell affirmations at the birthday boy in their midst. Finally, their voices call out in unison: “We challenge you in humility, bravery, and respect!” These boys temporarily…
Read MoreFoster Care in Europe
Plucked from a house of drugs and neglect and placed in the custody of strangers, Yuri was removed from his mother’s care when she was deemed unable to raise her child. Projecting her own issues, his mother described him as a child with classic autism, who wouldn’t bathe, cut his hair or nails, or attend school. Not knowing what to…
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