The Next Student Missions Movement
"Providing youth an overseas experience to engage the people of the world while equipping them for a lifetime of Kingdom service."
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Overview
In the early 1900’s God used young people to impact the nations in what became known as the first student missions movement. A century later, we are at the peak of the second student missions movement; here at CBU we call it Global Surge 2 (GS2).
Global Surge 2 is a service opportunity for juniors and seniors in high school to partner with California Baptist University to participate in a service project overseas. Students will begin their experience at CBU in a 3-day cross-cultural simulation to prepare for their journey.
To ensure proper accountability and one-on-one discipleship, each student will be placed in a ‘cluster’ comprised of 8-10 GS2 participants. Clusters will be led by experienced and trained college students.
The entire team of will travel as one unit from CBU to their destination for on-the-field orientation before beginning their ministry projects. Upon completion of their service project, all of GS2 will be reunited to share and process their journey before returning to the states together.
This journey is not only for individual youth, but also open to church youth groups and their youth pastors.
Office of Spiritual Life and Global Mobilization Personnel
John Montgomery (Dean of Spiritual Life) - In 2006, John began providing spiritual leadership and guidance to the CBU community as Campus Pastor. For more than 20 years, John served in churches in Oklahoma, Arizona, and California, most recently as Executive Pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Highland. John and his wife, Stephanie, have three children.
Kristen White (Director of Global Mobilization) - In step with her life's calling to train and equip God's people to go to the ends of the earth, Kristen began leading the ISP program in 2005. Although an Oklahoman at heart, before journeying to CBU, she worked on the ministry staff at First Baptist Church in San Francisco and served as a 2-year Journeyman with the IMB in East Asia.
Jared Dobbins (Assistant Director of Mobilization) - Jared moved to Southern California in June of 2008 after completing his Master's degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A native of Alabama, Jared's heart is to see people of all ages and from all walks of life awaken to God's heart for the nations to know Him. Jared has served in cross-cultural settings all across the globe and most recently, with the Global Surge 2 program in June and July of 2008.
Under the direct supervision of our Spiritual Life staff, selected CBU students, who have already participated in CBU’s International Service Projects, will serve as ‘cluster’ leaders for the Global Surge 2 teams.
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