ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE 2024 North America CONFERENCE
MAKING ALL THNGS NEW

Almost 500 staff, leaders and students from TC Centers across the USA and Canada with some truly incredible trailblazers gathered to learn and celebrate.

The keynote speakers, brought such diverse, balanced and timeless insights as they shared the never-changing gospel in an ever-changing world. From Al Toledo, who encouraged us to pray for the rain of God, to Jo Saxton ministering on how to live and lead in times of change. There was something for everybody. Lance Witt's message on the balance of humility and godly ambition was extremely timely.

Pastor Gary Wilkerson continued the powerful ministry of his father (and our founder) David Wilkerson, communicated the urgency of deepening our relationship with God. We cannot find our "fulfillment" in ministry or people pleasing, but in our relationship with the Father. Forget self-doubt… You are valuable to God.Dr. Henry Cloud reminded us that the foundation of our walk is trust.

Pastor Tim Dilena, (remember his dad in the movie "The Cross & the Switchblade" was the police officer that said to the policeman who wanted to shut David Wilkerson down, "Let the preacher speak.") That legacy of the Dilena family continues because he spoke powerfully about being able to hear God's voice. He heard God's "NO." His teaching on "bad math" showed how the combination of God's command and your obedience always delivers multiplication. I encourage you to go to the website to look at all of these messages.

Do you know your "AOR?"

I spoke with the Navy captain on Memorial Day weekend. We discussed his recent deployment. He shared that as they were wrapping up their mission, headed for their final port of call in France, command communication came in the middle of the night advising,

“Turmoil in Middle East [stop] Deploy to Eastern Mediterranean immediately.”

Frustration that they were not headed to shore leave or home, was tempered by the urgency of their orders --after all this is what they trained for-prepared for. They powered across the Med, confident that they would finish the mission and soon be heading home. The orders meant they were missing  trick-or-treat with their children, another 30 day extension meant they would miss Thanksgiving with their family. In December, they learned that they would not even be home for Christmas.

The captain did not allow discouragement, distraction, or disappointment to hurt moral or divert them from their mission objectives.  He gathered the entire crew - sailors, seamen and officers, to announce a modification of the rules of engagement.

He assigned each person on board an AOR -An area of responsibility. He established a 25-foot personal perimeter making every crew member responsible to see, encourage, and support anyone in that circle. He declared, “We all have a duty to ensure that morale does not break down, operational preparedness does not lag, and mission readiness is NOT compromised.

While that AOR was a powerful and creative command decision for our Naval Capt., we too have an AOR.  Heb 3:13 says, "Encourage one another daily, while it is yet called today lest you be hardened by the deceitful glamour of sin.

Heb 12:12-14  instructs us to “strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble… So that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed, and concludes the thought in verse 15… See to it that no one come short of the grace of God…. In these days of stress, turmoil, and temptation, at a time when the very foundations of our culture and our faith are being shaken, there has never been a more significant time to know our AOR and encourage one another.

When covenant people ignored the need, a Samaritan took responsibility to stop, dress his wounds, care for him and tell the innkeeper, “Do whatever he needs, I will be responsible.”

All of us who know Jesus are on a mission—We are covenant people with a responsibility. Did someone promise you adventure , unstoppable blessing, or never-ending revelry at port-of-call? Now you feel like you face one detour after another? Don’t be discouraged!

JUNE 24 - JULY 1,2024
TC ALBANIA,
Orges Hysenaj

JULY 1-5, 2024
TC SLOVENIA,
Matjaz Horjak
tentatively
TC /MACEDONIA/ Balkans,
Jonatan Vlaisavljevi

SEPTEMBER 4 - 18, 2024
MISSION SOS
Lubumbashi, DRC Congo
Johannes Amritzer

SEPTEMBER 22 - 28, 2024
The Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation
Seoul, S. Korea

OCTOBER 2024
Côte d'Ivoire
Dr. Emmanuel & Angela Ekezie
details pending

OCTOBER 25-NOVEMBER 15, 2024
GTC West Africa Sub-Regional Conference and Curriculum Training Oct 30 Nov 2
David Omih, Dr Jacobus Nomdoe

NOVEMBER 12-15, 2024
Peniel NIGERIA AG General Council

PENDING INVITATIONS

working on logistics now

Sudan, Lebanon, Haiti, Romania, Slovenia, & Belarus

JANUARY 2025
TC Puerto Rico

MARCH 2025
TC CENTRAL CANADA


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1) ATC USA National Convention Dallas

Please pray for the 500 tremendous Teen Challenge leaders who gathered for the ATC USA North America convention and the many centers that they represented.. So many powerful young staff and visionary leaders. Pray that God will anoint them to carry the principles that they learned back to their cities in the United States in Canada to impact the lost.

2) ALBANIA -SLOVENIA

Please   pray for our upcoming missions to Albania and Slovenia. Good connections, flights, no problems with customs as we are taking some materials in for the ministries.

Pray for our ministry with the staff and students and the major outreach next Wednesday with Albania for the “international day of drug abuse.”

3) PORT AU PRINCE: HAITI
Please pray for the families and ministries of the 3 missionaries brutally gunned-down by a gang in Port au Prince,  Haiti. 

State representative Ben Baker tells us his son-in-law Davey, Lloyd were killed as they continue their work as full-time missionaries. Continue to pray for the safety of the Teen Challenge centers in Port of Prince as well.

4) PRAYER for ISRAEL !
Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem. As the unrest in the north continues to worsen and forest is fires are raging from recent drone attacks, TC leaders in Israel are continuing to work tirelessly to bring the good news.

5) TC WORLDWIDE PRAYER & PRAISE

Please pray for a special anointing this Thursday for TC Worldwide Prayer, and Praise as our family joins us LIVE! …. Our 4 children, wives husband, and nine grandchildren Live to encourage TC  families

6) Please continue to pray for TC in Ukraine. As many of you may have seen on Facebook, another fine young man has lost his life in the conflict.

6) FOR TC BURUNDI

For Teen Challenge Burundi (East Africa) as they complete the building of their training center and prepare for opening in late June. They still need beds, mattresses, furnishings and many other items as they prepare to open this new center. The construction of this facility has been nothing short of miraculous as Burgundy is one of the poorest countries in Africa and got a supernaturally provided roofing, bricks and even when the rains destroyed the structure when they could not get it roofed in the students have pulled together to rebuild those walls and stay on track.

7) Healing Prayer

Cathy & I appreciate your prayers as I continue to battle. I've recovered from my recent eye surgery. Some of you know I fell down the steps in Poland but my shoulder and knee are improving every day and we are excited to move forward on our upcoming missions. The enemy cannot stop us! We are trusting God for full recovery of my lungs. Doctors are still unable to identify a protocol to eradicate the parasites in my lungs, I will have my next CT Scan in July. They may not know, BUT GOD KNOWS.

So grateful that "Jehovah Has the Final Say!" By HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED!

8) Mission SOS Lubambashi Congo, DRC

9) VISION & WISDOM

Please pray for wisdom for our travel schedule through 2024.  Thanking God that He will lead, guide and order our steps to the places He wants us to be.

We appreciate those who pray for us. As you have seen from the schedule, we face an incredible challenge with the number of trips back to back this year. But the opportunities were so significant and ministry needs were so compelling that we really felt led to step out in faith. Please pray that the Lord will speak to the hearts of people who will help to sponsor these flights.

10) IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD . . .

“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” --- 1 Timothy 2:1-4 NASB