• Preparation:
  • Communicate, to the students, the need for evangelism
  • Train your students to share their faith
    • Share Jesus without Fear (by William Faye; http://www.sharejesuswithoutfear.com/)
    • Friendship Evangelism Challenge (by Doug Fields; Purpose Driven Youth Ministry)
    • Or any other method of training
  • Ready your students and parents of students for the interactions with lost teens
    • Whether it will take place in the context of the church or in another context
    • Preach it
    • Model it
    • Keep the focus on the Great Commission
  • Choose the method of outreach (i.e. Come and See events, Go and Tell Events, Van Ministry, a Relational Evangelism method, etc.)
    • In doing so, know your target audience
    • Which method will best reach them?
  • Promote the event
    • To your students and parents at the church
    • To the community
      • Consider tools like
        • Flyers in the schools
        • Social media
        • Mail outs
        • Newspapers
        • Tv
        • Radio
        • Posters in public places
• Situation:
  • Place students in situations to engage the lost
    • No matter the event type or the evangelism method, have your teens engage the lost
  • Encourage to give courage
    • Be the biggest cheerleader
    • Allow your teens to do what you trained them to do
• Investigation:
  • Get information on all touches made with the lost
    • Use registrations cards for "Come and See" events or bus ministry
    • Use decision cards for relational evangelism
    • Somehow get information in an organized professional manner
  • Follow up with the information
    • Have a follow up team trained and ready before the event ever takes place
    • Begin following up within a day of the event
      • Ideas
        • Phone calls
        • Emails
        • Face-to-face
        • Postcards
  • Do not settle for just contacting the name on the card
    • Make an effort to reach the parents, siblings, and any one else in the home
    • Have materials and information about various ministries within your church ready to give away
• Celebration:
  • Tell your teens in service and your church in a Sunday service about the victories for the Kingdom
    • Salvations
    • Recommitments
    • Just the fact that X number of teenagers shared their faith
  • Celebrate those victories as a ministry and church
    • Let it lead to praising God

 

Appendix

Ideas for Events

• Come and See
  • Superbowl Party
  • New Years Eve Party
  • Theme Night on a Wednesday Night
  • Coffee Shop Night
  • Old Fashioned Crusade
  • 5^th Quarter
  • Dodgeball tournament or any other type of tournament
  • Any wild and crazy idea that can draw teens but leads to a Gospel presentation and allows for teens to interact with lost students and present the Gospel
• Go and Tell
  • Mission Trip (anywhere from local to foreign)
  • Block Party (Parking Lot Party for a modern name)
  • Tailgating before a big game
  • 5^th Quarter on school campus
  • Concert in a special venue
  • Going to a public place and sharing the Gospel
  • Anything that takes your teens out of the church and engages lost people in their own context