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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=90 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Challenge 2010 Ministry Web Site</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Challenge 2010 Ministry Web Site"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Overview</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vision Mission"><U>Vision & Mission</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Strategy"><U>Strategy</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Register Here"><U>Register Here</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Resources</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Overview</B></div> <div> <B>Information And Links To More Details About Challenge Minist</B><B>r</B><B>y</B><B> <A NAME="top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="682" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 HEIGHT= 1862 WIDTH="172"><div> <B>Click below for a quick jump to...</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#evangelism_1" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sharing</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#kindness" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Caring</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Serving</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#challenge" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Global Fingerp</B></U></A><A HREF="#challenge" TITLE="Overview"><U><B>rints Backpack Challenge</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#center" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sports Ministry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#plants" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">EFCA Church Plants</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#ministry" TITLE="Overview"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800009900.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">More Ministry</B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="499"><div> We fully expect every component of Challenge 2010 to help encourage, shape and mold you into the man or woman of God that He has designed you to be.  But, Challenge also offers you a unique component that we call Challenge Ministry where you are encouraged to explore and experience how to pour your life out in such a way that you might taste and see the potential you have to impact your world at home because of Christ.  At the core of Challenge Ministry are three amazing opportunities for your youth group to leave a legacy for Christ in Columbus, Ohio:  Sharing, Caring and Serving.  We are also emphasizing an additional core opportunity for your students-the Global Fingerprints Backpack Challenge, where your students will have the opportunity to sow and pray over backpacks that will be sent to EFCA Reach Global orphanages in the Congo and India.  This year, we are challenging every student to sow and partner with us in this challenge.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sharing"><U><B>Sharing</B></U></A><B>:  Contact Evangelism</B><B> <A NAME="evangelism_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> The mission of Challenge Sharing Ministry is "Each One Reaching One."  We want to equip each student and adult at Challenge 2010 to give at least one person an opportunity to know about the saving message of Jesus Christ.  This Challenge Conference, Sharing Ministry will be partnering with our afternoon Evangelism Tracks to ensure that each student and adult involved is equipped to initiate Gospel-centered discussions and to share the Gospel with those they encounter.  The outcome desired in providing these evangelism tracks is to provide the training and resources the first day and then to send the students out into Columbus on the next day.  Our sincere hope is that many students will register to participate in our Evangelism Training Two-Day Tracks and pray that not only will it be informative and equipping, but that it will instill into each person the conviction that God has mandated that each of us prioritize evangelism in every aspect of our lives.  These evangelism tracks will also be teaming up with specific ministries and outreaches throughout the week at different public sites and alongside those doing caring and serving projects.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Caring"><U><B>Caring</B></U></A><B>:  Radical Acts of Kindness</B><B> <A NAME="kindness"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> The mission of Challenge Caring Ministry is to mobilize students into radical acts of kindness to meet the felt needs of the community in order to magnify the love of God and to demonstrate how much we care.  We will provide resources and set up sites and appointments to do the following kinds of radical acts of kindness:  Do free car washes for the community, wash the windows of local downtown businesses, clean the restrooms of local businesses, visit and encourage the elderly and sick at local rest homes and convalescent hospitals, the local blood bank will set up a mobile blood donor unit to help replenish the local blood bank supply, handing out water or refreshments to passersby, free face painting and balloons for children, pick up trash in needy park areas and, much, much, more!</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Serving"><U><B>Serving</B></U></A><B>:  Work Projects for the Community and the World</B><B> <A NAME="world"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> The mission of Challenge Serving Ministry is to communicate a heart for the community through intentional work projects that will meet the felt needs of the community churches and agencies.  We will work with local churches and agencies, provide resources and set up sites and appointments to do various work projects for a variety of organizations.  Some of these churches and agencies that we will partner with are Open Shelter Inc., Lower Lights Ministries, City Impact Youth for Christ Center, Franklinton Vineyard, Faith Mission, FCA Summer Camps and local elementary and middle schools.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Global Fingerprints Backpack Challenge</B><B> <A NAME="challenge"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> One of the highlights of Challenge Ministry is our partnership with Global Fingerprints, a ministry of EFCA Touch Global committed to overseeing the sponsorship of needy children in Africa and South Asia, as well as partnering with EFCA churches to plant and implement orphanages in those particular regions.  Global Fingerprints has communicated to the Challenge Leadership Team that one of the specific needs of all of those children in the orphanages is that they each need a backpack.  They have communicated that in those particular regions of the world, backpacks become necessities for not only carrying books, but also for carrying and taking care of other personal belongings.  Global Fingerprints has developed a process where we will be able to sow backpacks for the children in the material and type that is most effective for them.  While we have the opportunity to sow and construct the backpacks, Global Fingerprints will expose our students and youth leaders to the Global Fingerprints ministries, the needs of those children, and the life and culture of those students.  We will also have the opportunity to pray over the backpacks for the students who will be using them.  This year at Challenge 2010, we want to encourage and challenge every youth group to register and participate in this challenge.  We pray that we will be able to sow and send over 7000 backpacks, and we pray that God will continue to open the eyes of each student and youth leader at the conference towards the great needs and opportunities throughout the world.     </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sports Ministry</B><B> <A NAME="center"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> Challenge Serving Ministry will also be utilizing sports to partner with many churches and ministries to conduct community outreaches through summer sports camps and sports clinics.  We will partnering with Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action to conduct these community outreaches and we will be conducting one on OSU campus as well as at multiple churches throughout Columbus.  We also will be utilizing the Challenge Circle, a sports ministry tool developed by Urban Impact in New Orleans, Louisiana, to gather and share the gospel with students in conjunction with local churches.  If you have any students in your youth groups that love sports and that would be willing to use their gifts and passions in that area for sake of the Gospel please make a note on your ministry registration form.  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>EFCA Church Plants</B><B> <A NAME="plants"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> One of the highlights of the Challenge Serving Ministry is that we will be working with the EFCA to plant a new church in Columbus.  God has already raised up a church planting team, led by Jay O'Brien, that will move to Columbus in May 2010 and will begin laying the ground work to launch the church in Fall 2010 or Spring 2011.  Challenge Ministry will partner with his team in their community to help build relationships, serve, and develop awareness.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>More Ministry</B><B> <A NAME="ministry"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> And, that's not all.  Here's a sample of the kinds of projects that were done during past Challenge conferences that we will continue doing in 2010:  Lead a VBS or childrens ministry for a local church, do a door-to-door ministry for a local church or ministry, help paint, clean and restore run down buildings and facilities, do some watering and even some weeding in nearby parks and open spaces, do work projects for the local parks and recreation service, provide support for local shelters and advocates for the homeless, help with local women and children's programs, help with inner-city programs, work with a large variety of organizations and provide support in a large variety of ways.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Challenge Ministry is our way of giving you an opportunity to apply the myriad of things that you will learn about faith in practical and meaningful ways during the conference.</div> <bR> <div> For more information, e-mail Nic Schrieber at <A HREF="mailto:nic@kidzxl.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:nic@kidzxl.com"><U>nic@kidzxl.com</U></A>.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Overview"><U><I>(return to top)</I></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>