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A Swedish perpetrator involved in the online sexual exploitation of children has been found guilty. With the evidence collected and a videotaped interview with the survivor, IJM’s Philippines team successfully persuaded the Swedish court to find the accused guilty. The perpetrator was ordered to compensate the victim £20,000 and is likely to appeal. Please pray the conviction is upheld. Praise God that two young boys were brought to safety after escaping from bonded labour at a duck farm. They had been enduring increasing violence and managed to run away. People in the village brought them to local authorities, who took care of them and confronted the farm owner. Praise God for the compassion and proactivity of this community. Pray for the owner to be arrested and that the boys can receive the aftercare they need.

Core Values: 

• Love is the Greatest Super-Power
• Jesus told us to Go – To share His love with everyone, everywhere
• Jesus said, Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. (Matthew 19:14)
• There is no Junior Holy Spirit
• The 2+ billion children in the world under age 15 are the great “untapped” harvest force
• God is fulfilling His word, He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction. (Malachi 4:6)

Question: What is the Go 2020 Kids “Good News” Super Challenge?

It is a challenge for children to, “Share God’s love – The Greatest Super-Power – with someone who needs it today.”

How can we share God’s love – especially now during this “Social Distancing” time?

• Reach out to people who are afraid and let them know you care by praying for them
• Invite them to be a Prayer Covenant for Children Prayer Partner with you
• Help others know that God loves them by sharing stories or videos
• Share your story or God’s story with others using tools like the Jesus Film for Children or The Best News Ever
• Identify the best way to pray for or share with others within your ministry “family.”
  • Go 2020 Kids Tool Kit - https://www.go2020usa.com Under Resources
  • Go 2020 Kids YouVersion App – https://my.bible.com/reaching-plans/19639
  • Jesus Film for Children on the free Jesus Film App
  • Become like Hadassah and do your own VBS
  • Teach the Children how to use the tools you use like the Wordless Book
  • Ask the Super-Coach what he wants you to use

 Structure for Go 2020 Kids “Good News” Super Challenge

Create some excitement and motivation with an Olympic challenge for Kids with different suggested categories - but with some flexibility for children to be creative.

Let the different “families,” i.e., ministry tribes, determine how to engage within their family and existing structure.

We will work to develop a “Coaches” resource platform to help parents, grandparents, children’s ministry leaders and others discover “best practices” to coach their children to engage.

Capture the stories of “God at work” in and through the children and share them.

• Post them on the Go 2020 sites and, hopefully, on a Go 2020 Kids Landing Page (under construction)
• Create ways for kids to share these stories with others using “social networking”

Let children inspire other children to be part of the Go 2020 Kids Good News Super Challenge

• How God’s love is the Greatest Super-Power
• How God loves to use children to bring His love to others
• How they can hear God’s voice and be part of His mission – now

We will work to identify key influencers who can help to cast the vision and encourage the children

• Christian athletes
• Christian musical artists
• Christian community leaders
• Pastors

New Wine and New Wine Skins

• God’s heart for children is bigger than our current wine skins
• God wants the 2+ billion under 15 to know him and be on mission with him
• Children love to be included and they love challenges
• Children have relational DNA
• Children don’t know what they can’t do yet and are not hiding behind masks
• There is no Jr. Holy Spirit
• An Olympic kind of challenge that invites them to participate has huge potential
• A coaching model for parents and others can help us embrace children as the agents of mission verses the objects of mission
• Letting the different “tribes” use their own tools will invite “ownership”
• Perhaps an Olympic kind of competition will create a kind of “viral” spread
  • Tribes against tribes
  • Communities against communities
  • Nations against nations

Critical Action Points

• Develop Effective Communication Platforms
• Build A Leadership Community with Global Capacity

The Current working group:

• Go 2020 Kids Team (Global)
• Other Global and Local Prayer and Mission Networks

More at: https://go2020kits.outreach.com/free-resources

Christian Aid Mission has many Bible schools in China offering one- and two-year programmes, with training primarily focused on evangelism and the cost of discipleship. Seven days a week, faculty led morning prayers at 5 a.m. and evening prayers at 9p.m. Every Saturday, students divide into groups to evangelise their community. Due to the school’s excellent standing, home churches often invite students and faculty to preach and lead worship. They travel in pairs on bicycles to over forty house churches in the school’s vicinity. Over 120 students graduate from this Bible school each year. Students become teachers at the school, return to serve in their home churches, or plant new churches in various regions throughout China.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has set out his vision for the next once-in-a-decade meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion, in 2020. He said, ‘The world needs the good news of Jesus Christ; it needs to see it in our actions, envy it in our love together, and hear it in confident proclamation of the good news of Jesus.’ He acknowledged the ongoing disagreements over sexuality and the interpretation of Scripture. ‘We have very important differences, but we must show that we respect each other as sisters and brothers in Christ, and that we learn to disagree in a way that demonstrates that we love and value each other. Whatever views we come with, we come to be under the authority of Scripture, and inspired by the Spirit.’ He is currently sending invitations to every active bishop (and spouse) in the Anglican Communion.