Dare2Share LIVE encourages students to share their faith
Forty-four percent of Americans among 18-29 years olds do not identify with any religion, let alone Evangelical Christianity. In the last 10 years, teen suicide has gone up by 50 percent. One out of five students are bullied. Every day, 15,000 teens try drugs for the first time. Wall Street Journal statistics like these would be drastically different if students grasped the Gospel at an earlier age. Oklahoma Baptists, let’s burn these...
Oklahoma Baptists participate in Dare 2 Share LIVE
Dare 2 Share LIVE was a one-day evangelism training event on Oct. 12 that trained students to start a Gospel movement in their communities. The event was broadcasted live from Denver, Colo. to locations across the country. Three of those locations were in Oklahoma—McAlester, First; Mustang, First; and Tulsa, First. Across the country, thousands of teens were equipped to pray, serve others and share the Gospel—all at the exact same...
Called to rescue: GoStudents 2019
GoStudents helps Oklahoma Baptist churches equip students with the task of sharing Jesus with unreached and unengaged people. This evangelism strategy of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma primarily serves churches that cannot send an entire mission team, but can send one or two students. This summer, GoStudents had its highest number of students and youth leaders participate. A total of 322 participants consisting of 17 teams...
6 key ingredients to a successful ‘See You At The Pole’ post rally
In 1990, a small group of high school students in Texas felt led by the Lord to pray for their schools. God gave them compassion for their lost classmates who needed to know Christ. They determined that their school’s flag pole would be the best gathering place to pour out their hearts to God. Little did they know that it would lead to a movement in the years that followed that involved thousands of groups of Christian students doing...
5 takeaways from GoStudents 2018
We are so thankful to the Lord for the historic summer we had with GoStudents. In one year, we have doubled the number of students involved in our projects, going from 140 to 280 participants in 2018. These projects are impacting lostness and the lives of the students involved like never before. What are some things we’ve learned along the way? Here are five “takeaways” from this summer. 1. More Opportunities Several years back, we...
