The Forgotten Ones

Today I want to bring to light a group that I see that are "The Forgotten Ones" on many mission trips, wither to Nicaragua or anywhere else. The group that I am talking about are the teens. This is not something that is intentional, it is just that teens are harder to reach than any of the others. They tend to sit back and watch trying to stay out of the spotlight. When teams go down they reach out to villages with VBS (again something even in America teens don't get involved in) Block Parties, and Crusades. As teens these events don't excite them.

Why do I feel that they are forgotten?

• One reason is because there are not teams going down and directly targeting them, and just taking a week to impact their lives with the Love of Jesus.



• We don't have teams going down to disciple the youth leaders there. What I mean is, we are so spoiled here that we tend to forget that around the world there are youth leaders who are stretched and weary because of the tremendous burden that they are carrying. They don't have adequate resources and if they were available they wouldn't have the money to purchase them. Thus, one of my goals is to reach out to the leaders and let them know that they are not alone in this struggle. Taking training to them and training them to disciple the teens that they are blessed with.

How can we remedy this?

• Mobilize teams of youth leaders and workers to go to Nicaragua and just love on teens for a week at a time, breaking down the rough exterior.



• Mobilize teams to go down and train and work along side the leaders there, teaching them how to disciple the teens there for Christ.

The last time I was there, I saw teen after teen come to Christ and need someone to reach them with the Word and show them the way that they need to change their lives. It is good to see them come to Christ, but that is not the end of what "The Great Commission" says to do, we are to teach them and disciple them with the correct way to go and teach them what Christ has taught us. Are we doing that? Sadly, the answer is no and it is not any one person's fault, we are all at fault, and personally I am ready to change that.

I would like everyone that reads this blog to pray about this and pray that God will lay it on people's hearts to reach out to the forgotten ones in Nicaragua and also around the world. I am placing some pictures of some teens from Nicaragua on here for you to get an idea of just who I am talking about, these are the teens that have stolen my heart and gave me new purpose. God Bless!