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Your New Mission Field — High School!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
You New Mission Field—High School!
You New Mission Field—High School!

Off the top of your head, who can you say ignites crusades in America where 90 percent of the attendees are under 18 and have never been saved by Jesus Christ?

I struggled to answer this question too when it was posed to me recently by a 24-year-old Hispanic pastor named Brian Barcelona. Barcelona knew the answer. Actually, Brian Barcelona is the answer.

Barcelona is the founder of One Voice, a Los Angeles-based ministry that seeks to bring the Gospel to local high school students by strengthening student Bible clubs.

"The LGBT, Planned Parenthood, the Marines — all of these organizations understand one thing: if you get a student in high school, then you most likely get them for life," said Barcelona as he sat with me in the student center of Campbellsville University. "There are 14.7 million students that go to public high schools in America. That's something we have to understand as a Church."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/stop-trying-to-attract-youth-go-to-them-142565/

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