J-Train

[Wilson L. Deaton]

Olathe College Church has just launched a new ministry. Chelsie works in this ministry as part of her ministerial "internship."

This is the description for the College Church Website:

What is the J-Train?
The J-Train is an Outreach Ministry of College Church of the Nazarene Bus Ministry that is not just Bringing Them In, but Bringing Jesus to Them.

We are taking the Church to the neighborhoods, sharing Christ with children, youth, and parents, being Jesus with skin on. Many children and youth and especially parents from unchurched homes will not bother to come to church on a Sunday morning. But we can go to them by way of a Church on Wheels.

How will we do this?...
We will take our big 20 foot truck to area apartment complexes and present the Gospel through lively music, games, skits, puppets, prizes, food, and just hangin’ out. We will go out on Saturdays to two different apartment complexes in the Olathe area each week, with a team comprised of volunteers from College Church and students from MNU or NTS. This is a pilot program with the vision of doing this year-round starting in the fall. (The ministry has now been launched.)

Wilson

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

There is a big Assembly of God church in Memphis that does things like that. They take something like a platform to different neighborhoods, to try to win people to the Lord.

They have mobile type buildings behind the church, made into small rooms, as a dorm. The program they have is called Master's Commission, and they train young people churchman ship, Bible studying, etc. They only have Mondays off to go home, and have to return by 10:30 p.m. One of our grandsons is attending this. He did not get to come home the first time for a month, which was last Monday. It cost aboutt $3,000
per year, and more, if you go on a mission trip. Our daughter stopped by at a time he was supposed to be studying, and caught him climbing in his bedroom window. I got so tickled. It sounded just like Eddy. They have older kids in the program that check on first yer students to see if they are studying. He wants to be a Youth Pastor, but is not sure if God is calling him.

Glad your daughter is studying for the ministry. I use to want to be called, but wasn't.

[Gina Stevenson]

There is a big Assembly of God church in Memphis that does things like that. They take something like a platform to different neighborhoods, to try to win people to the Lord...............

Believe that when I heard this sort of thing when yet in Phoenix, it was also an AoG church. But then they were huge enough to have such resources, too ... Tommy Barnett's church. ;)

Yes, we did visit there once in a blue moon, when they had folks like Ray Boltz in concert, and a few other times, such as around Christmastime, 4th of July, etc.

Here there's one that's rather large that has had some all right concerts, drama, etc, and we've seen a bit of it over the years, tho' haven't been there for "eons" ... since before this new pastor was there (had heard of him before they arrived, however, as he was an OK TV dude ... I listen to very few of them on TV).

http://www.grandrapidsfirst.org/site/services/audio/message.html

http://www.grandrapidsfirst.org/site/aboutus/pastors/bios/rijfkogel.html

[since the page where the pastor's noted has his family but no names, I'll tell you that she's Brenda; they came here from TX ... have run into them in McD's once, but other than that, haven't seen them. ;) This is just a couple of miles away, you see.]

[Jim Franklin]

Our church tried something like that in a mobile home court and the only ones who showed up were those from the church even though fliers had been put out throughout the neighborhood. I wish the church success.

[Wilson L. Deaton]

Olathe College Church has just launched a new ministry. Chelsie works in this ministry as part of her ministerial "internship."

This is the description for the College Church Website:

What is the J-Train?
The J-Train is an Outreach Ministry of College Church of the Nazarene Bus Ministry that is not just Bringing Them In, but Bringing Jesus to Them.

We are taking the Church to the neighborhoods, sharing Christ with children, youth, and parents, being Jesus with skin on. Many children and youth and especially parents from unchurched homes will not bother to come to church on a Sunday morning. But we can go to them by way of a Church on Wheels.

How will we do this?...
We will take our big 20 foot truck to area apartment complexes ...

Each week when they start, they "blitz" four apartment buildings (knock on every door and tell them about J-train). This past weekend they were not able to do building #4 as CSI had the place sealed off...

Here's the tragic story:

http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/365936.html

Wilson

[Bob Evans]

Cool!