We are challenging every young person to expand their relationship with Christ through these five key disciplines throughout each week: Fasting, Bible Reading, Sharing the Gospel, Monetary Giving, and Daily Prayer. The potential is limitless when we focus our students from across the country. Please partner with us this year as we commit to amplify Christ.

Goals for Every Student

• 100 Meals fasted in one year | 2 meals per week
• 100 Chapters of the Bible read per year | 2 chapters read per week
• 100 Testimonies/Share Christ | 2 testimonies per week
• 100 Dollars given to Talents | $2 per week
• 100 Minutes in prayer per week | 15 minutes per day = 91.25 hours in a year

Each student will receive a weekly tracking chart at this year’s NYC. Completion and signature of the Pastor will result in a certificate and free NYC 2010 Amplify T-Shirt. (Must be present at NYC 2010 and submit signed tracking chart in order to get T-Shirt.)

National Goal

We are targeting 200 churches with an average of 10 young people per church to be 100% committed. By doing this together we will nationaly acheive:200,000 meals fasted (66,666 days fasted)200,000 chapters read (168 times read the bible through)200,000 testimonies given/sharing Christ (potential of 200,000 added to church)$200,000 raised for Talents10,400,000 minutes in a year (173,333 prayer hours)Please visit: www.apostoliccrusaders.org for more information.

Personal Tracking Chart

Download the weekly personal tracking chart here.

Apostolic Youth Corps Director Josh Wilson led a team of young people out into the streets of Indianapolis on Wednesday, November 26 for a powerful outreach event.

According to the world clock the world population is currently 6,710,633,803. The world daily birth rate is 352,800 and the daily death rate is 153,000. Every day the world population grows 199,800. According to ReligiousTolorance.org the Christian church population is 2,039,000,000 in which is 32% of the world population that is currently on the decline.

How many young people are we reaching every day, every week, every month? Are our youth groups growing or declining?  How many opportunities are being lost and how many are being seized? These are the questions the Lord has been asking me. Let’s cut to the chase: how effective are we in Soul Winning? Are we focused in our prayers or are we satisfied with wishful thinking? Is youth evangelism as difficult as many times perceived? Does it demand hundreds, even thousands of dollars? Does it require the activation of hundreds of bodies with the best of the best abilities to draw from?

This thinking can be an obstacle and a stumbling block that prevents our youth groups from impacting our generation.

Throughout my ministry I’ve tried to be on the cutting edge of the latest resources and ideas that promise to ensure unprecedented revival.  However, with closets and storage rooms full of gimmicks and gadgets, I conclude that I can still miss the key component to unlock personal, community, and even world evangelism, “taking the initiative”. It sounds too elementary, doesn’t it? Too easy, too simple. However, it is the essence and the power behind effective evangelism.

Evangelism was never meant to simply be a program or a department; it is a practice, a lifestyle, an outflow of the hope that resides within every believer. I’m not saying that programs have a negative impact. Many youth have found true blessings in getting involved with other church departments and outreach programs. But the foundational principle of these tools is simply stepping out of our comfort zone and…taking the initiative!  Finding and pursuing a cause greater than myself. Someone once said that true evangelism is one beggar sharing with another beggar where to find the bread. Not one of us has “arrived”. We all have more to share with our lost world.

The CORE of evangelism is sharing the GOD experience of your life with someone else. God intended that the joy, peace, fulfillment, contentment, and the passion that you have found in Christ should be shared through the power of the Holy Ghost working through my life. Making a difference in someone’s life will always happen when you let God express Himself through you.

Is this not the purpose of the CHURCH: to become the hands and feet of our Savior? God did not call us to blend in with the world. He called His body to be a light to the world declaring with boldness, “I have come that you might have life, and life more abundantly”.  We have been called to SHARE the wonderful grace of Christ.

If you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, then you have the greatest treasure one could ever possess.   SHARE IT! Take the initiative. Don’t wait for others to move; you move, you love, you become the Master’s servant. You don’t need a committee. Try it and prove God, “These signs shall follow them that believe”. Through fasting, effective prayer, and the expression of faith, we can unlock the supernatural in our lives, our community and even our world.

Stop worrying about perfect scenarios and use what we have. You can make a difference if you will.

God Bless,
Michael Jadrnicek

Welcome to the newly designed Apostolic Crusders website. Our staff is really excited about this new resource. We have worked very to hard to provide a site that is relevant both technologically and in design. Over the course of the next couple of months we will working hard to complete the unfinished areas.

No matter how cool a design is, a website is only as good as the information that is available on it. This site is meant to be a resource containing positive and helpful materials for both our youth and youth leaders. Many of you come across some very good things and resources that can be a help to someone else. Please feel free to forward any good information or ideas that you would like to see included on this site. We will do our best to keep the site updated with new and exciting information.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

Sincerely,
Andrew McLean
Promotions Director