Project Inspiration

Christian outreach camps present an invaluable opportunity for our missionaries to express their genuine love and concern for those without hope in Christ. This is tried and true:  opening up our hearts and showing compassion produces a lasting impact on both children and youth. It leaves them longing for relationships that breathe the same Spirit of love and truth they experienced in our camps. Without an opportunity for ongoing fellowship with Christians, however, many of them will succumb to peer pressures in their towns and villages. Critical here is the need to provide them with a place of refuge from these pressures, and a safe “haven” for nurturing Christian relationships.  Absence of this follow up ministry would undermine the work done in outreach camps.

Project Objective

The Youth Club and Children Club ministry represents this follow up work to our current projects in Moldova. Further referred to as the “club ministry” it exists to provide children and young people with an opportunity for spiritual growth. It ultimately serves as a means for them to be absorbed into the body of Christ by gradually transitioning into a local church. Essentially, as a ministry, we exist to aid the Church in its growth through outreach projects. Club ministry is absolutely vital in the course of navigating children and young people into the fellowship of true believers.

Project Scope

Club ministry serves as an effective way to follow up with children and teenagers from our camps to ensure their spiritual growth. However, our goals extend further than maintaining a connection during the interlude between summer camps. We aim to bring each club to such maturity that it is able to function independently of XiT Ministries, drawing on the support from indigenous churches. By offering proportional to the need financial support, program supplies, training and inspiration we strive to ignite a movement to passionate evangelical outreach among local churches. Our goal is to see in local Christians a mature and lasting commitment to save young souls expressed through independently functioning children and youth clubs.

Practical Approach

Despite their direct connection to our summer camps, children and youth clubs are homegrown by nature. Prior to our corresponding commitment to support any club, we ensure that club leaders share a strong sense of ownership in this ministry, and have genuine compassion for their own people. We place such high value on the above-mentioned criteria, that it affects our choice of villages and towns in which we conduct our summer camps. This suggests that club ministry not only follows our summer camps, but in many cases will precede them as well. Faithful to our practical approach, we highly regard what God is already doing in any place. A sign of God’s moving Spirit that attracted us to partnership in launching a local club ministry has undeniably been presence of native Christian leaders with a passion to serve Jesus. Thus we seek opportunities to join Him in His work by matching our calling to the local spiritual needs.

Project Specifics

On weekly to monthly basis, children and young people from a local village or town get together on a weekend day. United by their common experience of summer camps, they are welcomed to a similar atmosphere of genuine love and appreciation sustained through camp-like activities, such as singing, playing games, studying the Bible, praying, doing arts and crafts, enjoying treats and simply having a good time. XiT Ministries supports each club proportionally to the need while working closely on helping the club to achieve a level of maturity that allows it to function independently. Volunteer Coordinators at XiT Ministries regularly visit club meetings, conduct seminars and training for the leaders, and organize special events during Christmas and Easter celebrations. Alternative to local entertainment tainted by alcohol, drugs, and violence these clubs become sanctuaries where children and young people cultivate a heart of obedience, learn to love the truth, and honor God.

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The Team

Always at the head of children and youth clubs are local Christian leaders and volunteers who have been marked with the sacrificial love for their countrymen. These leaders become our close partners during summer camps, growing in trust and respect with the kids and youth from their geographical areas. Towards the end of each camp session, kids and teens return home with a relationship developed with these leaders in the context of their memorable time spent in camps. These previously fused relationships help both leaders and children grow even closer. All leaders conduct their ministry on volunteer basis and work in close partnership with XiT Ministries volunteer & project coordinators.

We Need Your Participation

We would like to ask you to prayerfully consider participating in this ministry financially and/or through prayer support.

Though one of the most important projects, club ministry, unfortunately, tends to be financially least supported. Perhaps the reason is that it does not boast such thrill or excitement relative to the one produced in our summer projects. However, we achieve this colorfulness in our summer camps in order to draw attention from children and youth, not our sponsors primarily. Since follow up work by far is the largest expense in XiT Ministries, we ask you to consider joining in supporting this very essential project, however unnoticeable it may be throughout the year.

Expenses of this project largely include fuel and communication costs, program supplies, arts & crafts, food, etc. We use all of the raised funds to cover expenses of the designated projects.

We believe God Himself directs His human and financial resources and have faith He will provide for this project as well. If you feel that God is leading you to support this project financially, your gift of any size would be highly valued.

Tax-deductible receipts may be provided upon request. Please see our “Donate” section for more information on how to make contributions.

May God bless you!