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• R.O.C.K.s Part one

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    Are you a R.O.C.K. Radical Overcoming Christian Kid? The Bible says that you are the Light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hid. We need to let our light shine so others can see Jesus! Jubilee Gang Kids Crusade footage filmed in Columbus, OH
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• R.O.C.K.s Part 2

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    Are you a R.O.C.K. Radical Overcoming Christian Kid? The Bible says that you are the Light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hid. We need to let our light shine so others can see Jesus! Jubilee Gang Kids Crusade footage filmed in Columbus, OH
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• Church Minded VS Kingdom Minde

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    Church Minded Vs. Kingdom Minded

    We hear a lot today about church growth and church growth is good. A healthy church should be growing just like a healthy person should grow. A healthy church cannot help but grow!

    A lot of churches are starting to evaluate every program according to how much it helps the church grow. Evaluation is good and healthy as long as we look at the big picture. The big picture that I am talking about is the Kingdom of God.

    Matt. 6:33 says that if we seek first the kingdom of God that all these things will be added unto us. We do not seek his kingdom to get what we want, but as we seek first the kingdom of God our lives and ministry cannot help but grow.

    Church growth cannot be the only reason we do certain programs or cut certain programs in our local churches. There is a much higher calling to grow the kingdom of God.

    Jesus said in the great commission to go into all the world and make disciples. Those people that need to be reached and discipled in all the world don’t just include people from our local communities that will attend our local churches.

    A lot of times when people look at having a Kid’s Crusade or family outreach event they count how many families return after the event and judge whether they should continue having this kind of events in the future.

    A lot of times we see great growth in our local churches from such events, but sometimes it does not effect the growth of our local body however it effects the growth of the kingdom of God.

    Now I am not saying that we should not evaluate the effectiveness of a certain ministry or outreach events. We should evaluate everything we do to find out if it reached the goals we had for the event and how we can be more effective in reaching these goals during future events. However, our goal should not just be getting new people to come to our church. It should be part of it, but not the entire goal.

    When I was on staff as a children’s pastor, I would ask myself what is the goal of any given event and how can we best achieve this goal. A lot of times we do an event just because we have always done this event.

    When looking at the event of a traditional VBS and seeing the large budget it required and the manpower from our church, I would ask myself what the goal of VBS was. Was it to encourage the Christian children in our church to grow or to outreach into the community? Being the evangelist that I am and knowing that my children were well taught in children’s church my goal for most large events was outreach.

    Then, I would ask myself if we were achieving that goal through the current VBS program. Most VBS curriculums are designed to teach bible truths around a certain theme for the year and not to see children born again and made disciples. VBS programs in some communities have turned into nothing more than a baby sitting service to the parents of the community. Kids jump from VBS to VBS every week during the summer just to have something to do while their parents are at work. Churches even work together to make sure that every week in the summer is covered by a different church and that everyone is not using the same curriculum. Most VBS curriculums have been watered down so that it is not offensive to anyone to get more children to attend. Sure there is a small amount of Bible in the curriculum, but in its self is not anything that will change a life for eternity.

    After evaluating the program and seeing that my goal was outreach and evangelism, I decided to change to more of a Kids Crusade format. I do not call it a Kid’s Crusade because the un churched community does not understand the term and usually associate it with the crusades of the dark ages.

    I have always been a kingdom minded person. Probably because Matt. 6:33 was one of the first scriptures that really came alive to me as a teen.

    We will not always see church growth as a result of an event or program, however we must ask our self if the kingdom grew because of the event or program. Now I am not talking about loosely using the phrase …

    “ If we touched one child it is worth it ”

    It is worth it to touch the life of one child. We do not know what that child will become. Maybe this child might become the next Billy Graham or something. But why should we only touch the life of one child during the event? While we are touching their live why not touch the lives of hundreds more. If only one child is reached we should ask ourselves how we can reach more next time and make the adjustments to our program, advertising, and marketing of the event to the community to reach more people.

    We recently ministered at a church that had us in and had small crowds each night. Mostly church kids and a few un churched friends attended. The same children came forward each evening during the invitation to be born again. A few people that did not attend the church came forward, but it was mostly the children from their church. I would say around 20 children were born again despite having around 50 children respond to the invitation during the 3 day event. I could see where the pastor might be discouraged and consider not having this type of event in the future because of the cost of the program and the results he saw.

    No one new that a friend of mine from face book attended the service from a neighboring town one of the evenings with a group of children including her 7 year old daughter. She had seen on face book where we were going to be ministering at this church and wanted to come and check out our ministry.

    After the event I received the following e-mail from my facebook friend…

    "Thanks for inviting us. I'm sorry we couldn't make all three days. The kids I brought LOVED it, they want you to come to our church. My daughter who's 7 also came with me on Monday night. She has been telling people in her class and in our congregation how she is "born again" and "how God gave her a clean heart". This is HUGE coming from a very Traditional Presbyterian Church. So thank you. You have encouraged me to change my Sunday School curriculum and change the direction of my ministry to be more evangelism based. I'll be back in touch soon after speaking with our finance committee to discuss scheduling a Jubilee Gang event at our church.”

    This was worth the whole event to see the lives of these young people changed and to see the possibility of an entire children’s ministry at another church become more evangelistic because of the children’s pastor attending this meeting.

    I also received a testimony from a children’s pastor in VA that was born again at a Kids Crusade at a church that he did not attend and never attended except for the Kid’s Crusade where he was born again. Below is his story…

    “When I was 5 years old my parents took me to see a traveling children’s evangelist who was ministering in a local church. At the end of the service I asked Jesus into my heart for the first time. My family and I never went back to that church but found ourselves planted in another local church where we grew in Christ.

    I often think about that first church where I found Jesus. I’m so grateful that church had a kingdom mindset when it came to outreach. Many churches see the goal of outreach as a way to boost attendance numbers. Outreaches are evaluated by measurable returns, but the Bible reminds us that we’re here to build a kingdom…not just our own church.

    I’m grateful for ministries like the Jubilee Gang who spend their time spreading the seed of God’s word into young hearts. And I’m grateful that this first church had a kingdom mindset that allowed me to hear the gospel for the first time. Their measurable return may be considered insufficient by many churches today but I will be eternally grateful to God for them.”

    This is what it is all about folks! As a result of this church being kingdom minded this young child was born again and is now a children’s pastor at a large church that is affecting hundreds if not thousands of lives.

    It would be wrong to not give a testimony from a church that did not see growth from a Kids crusade at their church. I received the following letter from a church in OK where a child was born again during the kids crusade and went home and told his mother about Christ and led her to the lord…

    “Our pastor's wife was teaching a Wednesday night class and a mom was helping. The mom brought in her form that we have everyone fill out before they help in children's church. Pastor's wife looked at the form and saw that the mom got saved in October and asked her about it.
    
    

    The mom's two kids came to the crusade and heard about being born again. The boy came to the front to pray. (That's awesome at that) That night when they got home, they told their mom about being born again and the mom got saved in her living room that night and has been faithful to church ever since.”

    We would have never have know this if the pastor’s wife had not asked some questions. The kingdom was affected by this event!

    When evaluating events and programs let make sure that we are not cutting a program that is affecting the Kingdom when we do not see our church numbers increase.

    By Jerry Moyer

    The Jubilee Gang

    www.jubileegang.com

    www.kidscrusades.com

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• What is a Christian Part One

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    What is a Christian? Going to church, being religious, praying and doing good deeds will not make you a Christian. Jesus Said you must be born again. John 3:7
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• What is a Christian? Part Two

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    What is a Christian? Going to church, being religious, praying and doing good deeds will not make you a Christian. Jesus Said you must be born again. John 3:7
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• Its Harvest Time!

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    John 4:35

    Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

    As we drove through Louisiana on the way home from an event last fall, we drove past many cotton fields. The cotton was truly white and ready for harvest. Some of the fields were being harvested as we passed them.

    We saw miles and miles of white fields. It reminded me of John 4:35.

    There are 6.7 billion people in the world today. The majority have not heard the good news of the Gospel. And if they have it was misrepresented to them as dead religion or was not relative to their lives. It’s our job to take the good news to the world. They will not evangelize themselves.

    If the world could only here the good news of the gospel that God is not mad at the them. He is not holding their sins against them because of what Jesus did on the cross. All they need to do is receive the gift of salvation and be born again. It’s a free gift. That’s the Good news.

    2 Cor 5:18-21 Says very clearly what the message is and who is to take it to the world.

    2 Cor 5:18-21 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

    Most unsaved people will not come to church.

    That’s why we must take it to where they are!

    We are Gods ambassadors!

    We represent him to the people of the planet earth!

    Rom 10:13-15

    13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

    14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!

    Below are a few statistics to think about.

    • Of the 6.7 billion people on the earth today, 34% are under the age of 14.
    • 40 million children in the United States have never been to church.
    • 2 out of 3 children in the United States do not know JESUS.
    • 86% of all people who receive Jesus make that decision before age 15.
    • The probability of someone being born again in America is:
      • • 35% between ages 5 – 12.
        • 4% between 13 – 18
        • and 6% for those 19 and older.
    • Only 10% of all the money put into the gospel is directed to the ministry of children.

    Seven years old is the age a person is most receptive to the Gospel.

    After a person turns 13 they are less likely to make a decision for Christ.

    After seeing this why do 99 percent of evangelists go after adults or teens? I can count on 2 hands the children’s evangelist out there that is making an impact on this generation. A lot of children’s ministries have gone to entertainment based instead of ministry based.

    That’s why we try and establish relationships with other children’s evangelists that are making a difference. There are too many children not born again and not enough children’s evangelist to be in any kind of competition.

    We have a whole generation of children that have never been to church. And if they have, they thought it was dead religion and didn’t want anything to do with it.

    Below are the percentages of people in America during different era’s that believed the basic bible truths and were born again.

    • 65% WW II generation
    • 35% baby boomers
    • 16% Gen X

    If nothing changes in America when this generation of children become adults only 4% will be born again bible believing Christians.

    Church its time to wake up and take back this generation!

    

    The fields are truly white and ready for harvest!

    Matt 9:37-38
    The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

    Will you go?

    Jerry Moyer

    The Jubilee Gang

    www.jubileegang.com

    www.kidscrusades.com

    www.myspace.com/jubileegang

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• JUbilee Gang Stage

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• Altar Call

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• Childrens Ministry or entertai

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    Children's Ministry or Entertainment?

    Over the years we have seen new ideas incorporated into children’s ministry such as; games, multi media, and technology at the expense of watering down the gospel message.

    We use most of these methods during our Jubilee Gang events. However, the purpose of our events are not to just entertain and wow the children, but to lay a firm foundation from the word of God that they can build upon to strengthen their faith in Jesus.

    Our Goal as the Jubilee Gang is to see as many men, woman, boys, and girls make a legitimate decision to be born again. To many time we have seen people herded to the altar to be saved without fully understanding what is happening to them.

    True faith comes from the word of God, The Bible. Without teaching the bible in a way that people can understand they will not have faith to receive what is being offered to them.

    If we play games for an hour, wow our audiences with multiple special effects and shout a few scriptures, then how do we expect them to be able to make a legitimate decision to follow Jesus?

    We encourage people to use all these methods to teach, but the message cannot get lost in the methods. The word of God needs to always come first in everything we do and all these methods are used to reinforce the message.

    By all means use all the new methods the world has to offer to make your lessons the more exciting. Make your Children’s Church the most exciting, spectacular, experience possible for children but, don’t replace sound biblical teaching and anointing with all fun and games. Ask yourself, do I want to have a service or a circus?

    We must stay relevant to reach this generation. The message never changes, but the method must change. Games, multi media, lighting effects, and video are all very effective ways to get the message across. But if they replace sound biblical teaching and anointing we will produce a generation of fluffy Christians with no spiritual backbone.

    By Jerry Moyer

    The Jubilee Gang

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    www.myspace.com/jubileegang.com

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• Fruit Inspector

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    The world is inspecting Christians fruit to see if we are for real. Do we have the fruit of the spirit in our lives? The only way people will see we are a Christian is by the fruit of the spirit in our lives. Its the proof that we are a Christian. Are you bearing good fruit? You will know them by their fruits Matt 7:16 Every tree is known by its own fruit Luke 6:44
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• Going to Church does not make

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    Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a cheeseburger. Jesus said you must be born again John 3:7
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• Jubilee Gang Ministry Time

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    Jerry Ministering at an event in Columbus, OH. All the lights, video clips, skits, and games are all to reinforce the message to bring our programs to this point. Our heart is to see as many men, woman, boys, and girls born again as possible and to stir up the church to reach out to the world around them with the good news of the Gospel and to be all they can be for God.
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