Jay Mooney • Assemblies of God National Youth Director • www.nym.ag.org
Challenge
In May at the Pen Florida District Council of the Assemblies of God, H2O Student Ministries was challenged by our District Youth Director, Al Force, to raise $1000 for Speed the Light this year.
The last Wednesday of each month's offering has been reserved for Speed the Light. Each H2O Student and Leader have all been challenged to give $5 or more per month to Speed the Light.
Month 1: For our first Speed the Light offering, Missionaries Bernie and Brenda Smith told us about how Speed the Light has help their ministry. That night we took our very first Speed the Light offering. 18 Student and Leaders gave an astonishing $61.79. That is AWESOME.
Month 2: July 28 we took our second Speed the Light offering! Once again 18 students gave $61.35! That makes a total of $123.07 and brings us to 12.3% of our total goal. I am so proud of all our students. They all have a heart to help people and to give to reach people for Jesus.
Amount Raised in 2010
June: $61.72
July: $61.35
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
About Speed the Light
The concept is simple: we give so others can speed the light of the gospel to a world in darkness. This is accomplished by providing the “essential transportation and creative communication” equipment for missionary evangelism. Through modern transportation, radio, television, the printed word, and equipment for mass evangelism, our missionaries can better fulfill the Great Commission.
Speed the Light (STL) is the student-initiated, volunteer, charitable program that provides much-needed equipment to missionaries across the nation and in over 180 countries around the world. Since its beginning, STL has raised over $220 million for missionary equipment around the world. (For more information on STL, click here: Knowing Speed the Light.
Today, Speed the Light is one of the most effective youth missions ministries in the church world. Assemblies of God students have accepted a great responsibility to voluntarily sacrifice and raise funds to purchase the equipment. STL operates with one guiding principle: All assistance must go to purchase equipment directly related to evangelism (“evangelism” is defined as propagating the gospel and instructing converts). STL equipment has not been nor is presently given for promotion, solicitation, or normal administrative functions.
If our missionaries are going to get to where the lost live, it will be because of Speed the Light. Every missionary in the Assemblies of God will at some point fly, drive, or float to their destination in transportation that has been provided to them by our churches and students through Speed the Light. Airplanes, cars, vans, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses, boats, horses, camels, donkeys, wheel barrows, etc., if it has wheels or hooves and can carry a missionary to a country, city, town, village, or under a card board box where someone is waiting to hear about Jesus, Speed the Light has provided it.
We give so our missionaries can travel faster, preach clearer, and be heard louder, in order that that Heaven might be a bigger place…filled with people from every nationality, color, and tribe who have accepted Him as their Savior.
To find out more about Speed the Light click HERE!
