re:mix Student Missions Conference Equips Young People to Serve Jesus
Rock the World, an Anglican Global Mission Partner dedicated to building young Christian leaders, wants to see God “re-mix” the way hundreds of young people think about missions at home and abroad. That’s why they are sponsoring the re:mix student missions conference. “Kingdom Outbreak” is the theme of this year’s three-day re:mix conference that will be held the weekend of April 13–15 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, North Carolina.
“Students are forming their values, and deciding what they will do with their lives,” said the Rev. Whis Hays, Executive Director of Rock the World. “They are open to crazy, even heroic ideas, like deciding to be missionaries in the inner-cities or in two-thirds-world countries or even in the cities of two-thirds-world countries.”
Rock the World believes that young people make particularly strategic missionaries. Hays explains: “A primary task of the missionary is to train local leaders who can evangelize those of their own culture. Over the past several decades, a global youth culture has arisen whereby youth across the world share a common base of knowledge of music and media, clothes and other artifacts, values, ideas, behaviors, and even elements of language. A young person today might have more in common with another youth across the globe than they have in common with an elderly person who lives a few blocks away. Therefore, the person best-equipped as an evangelist to unreached youth is a Christian youth, no matter where they reside in the world.”
The re:mix conference will feature national and international youth workers, pastors, missionaries, authors and worship leaders including Dixon Kinser, Aran Walter, Steven Tighe, Whis Hays, Don Cox, Holly Rankin Zaher, Todd Simonis, Meredith Borel, and Steve Brightwell. “At re:mix, we offer young people a holistic view of God’s work in the world,” said Hays. “We expose youth to biblical teaching on Christ’s Great Commission and to the dynamics of working in the youth culture here and across the globe through plenary speakers, workshops, prayer and worship. This conference changes people.”
Early registration for high school students of $159 ends on March 16 when fees go up to $179. Registration includes conference fees, meals and lodging. College students can attend for only $72. To register, go to www.rocktheworld.org/registration. “You shouldn’t want to come to re:mix. You need to come,” said Reynaldo Amaya, III, a high school student who attended a re:mix conference in Dallas in 2006.
“College and high school students who are serious about following Jesus and making their love for Him contagious should attend re:mix expecting to have their perspective reframed, their passion reignited, and their life remixed for Jesus!” said Meredith Borel, Rock the World’s Global Initiative Strategist.
The re:mix conference this April is held in conjunction with the New Wineskins for Global Missions conference, the premier Anglican missions conference held every three years. For more information on re:mix, go to www.rocktheworld.org/remix. For more information on the New Wineskins conference, go to www.newwineskins.org.
Posted 3–14–07