Biker Outreach
We go to the major secular bike rallies like Sturgis, South Dakota and Bike Week in Daytona Beach to serve national biker ministries by doing outreach concerts to draw in the bikers. Biker ministries are there to serve food and coffee and share God's love one on one during and after concerts. The biker ministries then direct them to the local network of Christian ministries who do follow up. Converts that need a residential program, we send to the camp in Thomasville, North Carolina where we are part of a 90 day or 1 year alcohol and drug rehab program geared to handle the specific needs of bikers.
College Campus Outreach
We go into an area that a group has been praying over for some time and we work with the group to get onto the local college and university campuses. If local campus groups exist, we then train them in doing outreach and then go onto the campus and do an outreach concert. Then, the campus ministry does weekly discipleship. We continue to help them with networking with other local and national ministries and try to get back to visit before the end of the school year for ongoing relationship building.
Drug Rehabs
This is a ministry very dear to our hearts. We have found a hunger for God in residential drug rehabs like nowhere else. To whom much has been forgiven, the same loves much. We have a teaching and edification ministry into drug rehabs. While doing outreach around the United States and Canada, we will spend free time during the week days visiting drug rehabs and giving whatever we can into their lives in order to encourage them that yes, God is the answer. I was there once also, with God as the only way out of the lifestyle of alcohol and drugs and into the Life.
Feeding Ministry
Where in the past we had a feeding ministry directly to the streets, things have changed through the years. Most places where we were feeding people the work continues. We got more involved through the years in getting food from places then distributing it to other distributors of the food to the needy, especially residential drug rehabs. Around the country, we can now network people to sources of food for their communities. We still try and feed meals at our outreach concerts, but would like to dedicate more resources to getting more food in the hands of local feeding ministries so they can be an outgoing presence in those communities where there is the greatest need on a daily basis. We know that feeding the hungry, in this country where there is so much waste, shows the love of Christ through his people to a population of hopeless, disillusioned, discouraged and hungry to know that someone really does care.
Frontline Missionary
A new part of our ministry that is there to be a covering and resource for many front line ministries that are out there without much support. After fifteen years on the front lines as missionaries to America, we feel there is much we can offer these new ministries coming up. We give them not only experience, but a 501c3 covering as well. We are also a resource for them through our network of ministries, getting food, blankets, transportation and/or places to send new converts fro discipleship training, residential rehab, womenís crisis center help or however we can best facilitate their ministry needs. We pray this organization will also help set the standard for accountability and such in all areas of ministry to the frontlines.
This is the new home for the part of our ministry to the church that we have been doing for years. We teach them how to start coffee houses, recovery programs, feeding ministries, residential programs for the homeless, clothing ministry , outreach and street evangelism.
Homeless Ministry
We work with many rescue missions around the country ministering where we can: feeding people or doing concerts for the people, or ministering to the staff who always need encouragement since this is a difficult ministry. We have found this to be where we can most affect change with the growing epidemic of millions of homeless in America. We encourage the staff with a concert and sharing testimonies and the Word. We try to make the churches aware of the plight of the homeless in America, encouraging them that it is the churches' responsibility to do something about this problem, not the welfare system or the government.
Native American Outreach
All studies done on fetal Alcohol Syndrome have been done on Native American Reservations because of the epidemic proportions of alcohol and drug abuse there. The oppression is greater there than in any other part of America. Yet it was once their land, and for that very reason no one wants to deal with the problem. They are a forgotten people, unless organized crime wants to start a gambling casino. We work on the reservations around America and Canada bringing food, clothes, but most of all hope to a dying Nation. We also do outreach concerts on reservations working with local ministries to do follow up work. Broken Arrow is the Native American part of Jesus Village based in South Dakota.
Out of the World Records
As an in-house record company this has made it possible to record and release CDís into the CCM industry, and affect areas of the industry with a call to purity and integrity. But it has mostly given the freedom to minister as the Lord leads rather than as the industry or finances dictate, enabling us to reach out to those who have nothing to give us in return. We now give away nearly all our CDís to those who need the ministry the most, those in need. In recent years, we have also been able to record other ministries and help them get their start, multiplying the ministry going forth from Out of the World Records to other reaches of the population we may not have been able to reach.
Street Corner Missionary
"Street Corner Missionary" is a newsletter we send out that updates people on our whereabouts. We cover many subjects in the newsletter, but our main focus has always been to have an ongoing Word into people's lives. Many people we reach are unchurched. Our way of reaching people by making the gospel real to them is something people say is hard for them to find. So in our newsletters, we tell stories that weave the gospel throughout, but in ways that are very practical, simple and real.
Street Outreach
Usually someone's group has been praying over an area for some time and then they hear of us and ask us into areas where alcohol, drugs and crimes have taken over neighborhoods and cities. We strategize outreach concerts, where we meet the needs of the area, such as food and clothing and bring them into a free concert where we then minister to them and direct them to the group or groups who brought us in. We then refer them to churches and drug rehabs depending on there needs.
Studio A-Live
Studio A-live is a recording studio we have built in order to have a way to better afford our own ministry of giving away CDís and tapes. Not only have we been able to record our own albums in-house, but also the albums of other ministries as well. We help to put othersí recorded ministry out there into the front lines to go forth and reach people whom we will never see or meet. They will go to other segments of the population around the world, multiplying the ministry going forth.
Outreach to the Churches
We serve the churches in many ways. We minister in the Word, teaching and encouraging and edifying the Body to a closer walk with God, to show them that He is real and wants to heal our deepest wounds through intimacy with Himself. But inner healing is only part of what we teach on. We are known for encouragement, as well, of whole churches to fulfill the purpose God created them for. We share our past and our life with a handicapped son, whom God would use to help deliver us from the past lifestyle. There are always in our meetings people hearing that yes, they have a purpose to fulfill also. So we end up then encouraging them on how to begin a feeding ministry, coffeehouse, recovery program, homeless shelter, drug rehab or any other frontline outreaches there in there own backyards. We have also begun to take churches into the mission fields of America. We take them into the frontlines to do outreach with us around the country at Biker rallies, Pagan and Witch Festivals, Rainbow gatherings, and Native American Festivals, teaching them with hands-on experience. Those who have participated have told that they would never be the same. This not only changes individuals, but the whole church as well. We have seen such great results we will be doing much more of this in the future. We also hope to be a reminder to the church of the importance of family. The Lord is turning the hearts of the children back to the Father. We know this to be an important message to the church of the day, with the divorce rate and teenage suicide rate on the rise, and drug addicts or teenage pregnancy at an all time high. We believe Jesus is the answer for our families and the Christian family, the church sold out to God and the answer to America's problems. We are not only missionaries to the streets of the Americas, but to the American church as well, knowing they can be the instrument of change that can truly affect the frontlines of America.
Prison Outreach
We do a limited amount of ministry in the prisons because it takes a lot to get into them to minister. In past years, we have worked in the New York State Prison system with hard core men, women and even teens, where we have ministered to some of the youngest murderers in America. The needs in this area are overwhelming. We spend a lot of time encouraging others to also go into their local prison system to minister. After an outreach concert in the prison system, we then send the people to the local chaplain or ministry already established in their prison for discipleship and bible study. We also send newsletters as an ongoing ministry of encouragement.
Rainbow Ministry
Rainbow is like the New Hippies, except now instead of Peace and Love, it is all mixed in with Pagan and Wiccan religions, witchcraft and satanic worship. They meet around the country in the National Forests for their gatherings. These gatherings could be a few thousand to 60,000 for a national gathering. It is a mixture of religion and hard drug use, alcohol to LSD. It is becoming the cool thing on college campuses as well. Ashville, North Carolina is a hub or headquarters for Rainbow, Wicca, Paganism, Lesbianism, as well as other counter-cultural or spiritually significant groups for the dark side. Over eight years ago, we began an outreach there, specifically to these street kids that are targeted and so heavily affected by the evil and darkness in this spiritual ìhot spot.î That has grown into an annual event called the Harvest Gathering. We also began to work with a ministry, Jesus Camp, that live with these kids when they are in the woods, that has now become a fulltime part of Jesus Village, the covering ministry for our outreaches around the country. Part of the vision for Asheville is to establish a contact point in the downtown area to reach out and minister on a 24/7 basis. We are also looking for a large piece of land, a place to take these young people to, for many of them are homeless runaways. When they get saved, they need a place, a new environment, away from the prostitution, drugs and lifestyle they have become accustomed to. These people have very unique needs and will not respond to traditional drug rehabs, thus the need for a special ministry base when they get serious about Jesus.
Harvest Gathering
On Halloween weekend each year, Jesus Village sponsors and puts on a three to five day outreach conference and music festival in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. We have a ministry team of 60 plus ministers from around the country who are called to minister to Wicca, witches and warlocks, Pagans and Rainbow. They come in and join us in this major outreach event as we spend the days in prayer, fellowship and spontaneous praise and worship. We invite the local churches to be a part and expose them to kinds of worship that are different than their own, but current with the culture we are reaching out to. The conference part is geared towards teaching outreach to subcultures through seminars and hands on training, which includes further training of the local church in how to reach these subcultures in their own backyards. Each night of the event we serve a free vegetarian gourmet meal to the crowd as we begin the music. We bring in 25 -30 bands that are specifically made for this culture we are ministering to. Throughout the three days of the outreach these bands play, people are served really great free meals, and peoples physical needs (food, clothes, blankets, etc.) are met through connecting them with local ministries. But most of all, and the only reason behind the event, is to demonstrate the love of Jesus by our actions, not our words, to people that are lost or hurting and have been rejected by the church.
harvestgathering.com
Winter Gathering
We call it an outreach conference and music festival in one. But it's more like an immersion in Frontline outreach to the "forgotten" subcultures. Living and working 24/7 for a week at a time in Florida in the winter with Frontline ministries and bands, in the Rainbow Gathering and Ybor City as we share from years of ministry across the country to so many people groups or subcultures. Glean from those who live by faith in the ministry fulltime on many topics. Rainbows, Witches, Pagans, Bikers, New age, Native Americans, the homeless, the poor, suburban youth, college campuses, inner city ministry, starting concert venues, feeding ministries and outreach festivals in your area and much more. Our outreaches including the Winter Gathering are now powered with solar energy and bio diesel as we teach alternative energy methods in an effort to conserve energy and take care of the environment as we believe we're called to.
If you have a call to reach the "unreachable" would like to learn how to or if you already work with subcultures and want to come share and network with others with the same vision, we welcome you. The Winter Gathering takes place in January and February in central Florida in and around Ybor City and the Rainbow Gathering.
wintergathering.org
Jesus Village Flying Circus Dinner Theatre an Fish Camp (where we take our fishing seriously)
Jesus Village is a covering ministry, where many different ministries can all come together to do outreach events and work together knowing that they are all accountable to each other and they all play by the same rules.
Flying Circus is well, when so many diverse groups of people come together to do outreaches, well, itís like a flying circus.
Dinner Theatre; we usually feed very fine meals geared towards the culture we are reaching out to, while we do Dinner Theatre which includes a free concert, drama and even an occasional cool skit where the audience becomes part of the play.
Fish Camp; well, we are all gathered together as fishermen in one place, doing something rather serious, fishing.
I might add, you could find us at Sturgis Bike Rallies or any Rainbow Gathering in the national parks or at witch gatherings every Halloween in Asheville, NC. On Native American reservations in the middle of their big events, in the middle of a pirate invasion in Tampa, FL every winter where they come in and take over the city. We try to be in the darkest, most unlikely places. Cornerstone is the nicest, friendliest place you will find us. But we are there to teach others to go and be fishers of men.
Village Renewables
Our outreaches including the Winter Gathering are now powered with solar energy and bio diesel as we teach alternative energy methods in an effort to conserve energy and take care of the environment as we believe we're called to.
Some of you may know that we have been planning a tour with a series of outreach festivals powered completely off of solar with bio-diesel generators for back up power. We believe this is an important part of being a good steward of what God has entrusted us with. Weíre building a website for those interested in learning more.
jesusvillage.net/renewables
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