Jason Lamer, Youth Alive

I like a lot of the ideas I see by Jason Lamer and his philosophy to go out into the schools and reach the students there, where they are at. I also like the ideas of his youth ministry and church that he started in the ideas of going along side local community projects and partnering with them. I think sometimes that the church today can miss those concepts of partnering with secular outreaches and programs. I think that youth alive’s ideas are good in their outreaches into school with assemblies and all and how to reach out. I feel that sometimes that while so much emphasis has been put on the outreaches and sometimes I see the Assemblies of God failing at discipleship once the students are in churches and youth groups. I do like the ideas of partnering with other churches in the community in doing these school assemblies and partnering with the schools. It seems like it is a lot easier to get into schools and places that are in the middle of nowhere. In the cities, such as Philadelphia that I have grown up in would not allow churches so easily into schools and have assemblies within the schools. Also a lot of the programs that I see being used seem to be very effective in rural areas, but in the city I have seen these same programs in the city and not very well responded to. I wonder if there are any different approaches in the city or even many of these projects in the city, as I have not seen many of them there. I do really feel for the idea of going to where the people are such as the schools in youth ministry and being able to connect with the community and partner with them.