Missions Trips?

In his Introduction to the New Testament Epistles, J. B. Phillips writes:

There is a vast difference between the Christianity of the first century and the [Christianity of today]. To us, Christianity is all too often a code of ethics, a philosophy of life, a standard of performance, but to those first-century Christians, it was a new quality of life altogether, and they did not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them. Perhaps if we believed what they believed, we could achieve what they achieved.

Bill Bright writes:

The first-century church rocked their world. Filled with the Spirit and compelled by the love of God, the early church took the Good News of God's love and forgiveness to the entire known world. Never before had any small body of ordinary men and women made such an impact on the world. Those Christians were a group of ordinary people, like you and me, who knew the love and forgiveness of God. Controlled and empowered by God's Holy Spirit, they reached out in love to people living under the tyranny of an evil empire.

This Saturday:
Some of the NJMetro staff team will be joined by 40 students from around the state to take a 20 hour bus ride to Daytona, Florida.  
Why? 2 words every college student loves to hear: "Spring Break".
Every year the US National Campus Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ puts on a weekly conference for students from around the country in Panama City Beach, Florida. This isn't just a vacation though; This trip has purpose. Hundreds of students each week in March are trained to shrewdly and un-apologetically share their faith with college students who've come down to Florida to find life in things of this world that are fleeting and not fulfilling.

Prayer walking the beach in PCB, FL -2008

So why not join the National Conference? This year there were so many Christian college students excited to share their faith on the beach for Spring break that the conference registration had to close early! There was no more available housing. Having had already gathered 40+ NJ students ready and excited to go and preach the Good News, the Jersey Metro staff team PRAYED and listened carefully for the Lord's leading. Through lots of prayer and internet searches, we found a great deal at a hotel in Daytona, Florida. So this year, we will have our own training conference and time to share our faith with "Cru" movements from across the state of NJ on the Dayona beach. Some students from Kean University started to call this trip "DAY-Break" in reference to a "Reilly Band" song called "Sunlight" and of course it's also a pun for being in  DAYtona on Spring BREAK. :)

Please be praying for us as we prepare to take this trip this Saturday March, 12th. Pray that our staff and students would be motivated by love and compassion for the many seeking a fulfilling love and purpose in this life. Pray that this compassion motivates them to be bold for Christ! Pray that our students would make this a way of life and not just something to do on a trip.