Caribbean Youth Network

 
Our purpose is to serve as an international mission organization fostering the planting, partnering, and networking of relational, Christ-centered youth ministry to the ends that youth can be introduced to the Gospel and grow into a mature relationship with Christ.
 
 
 
 

• 1. To plant relational, Christ-centered, community based youth ministry on islands throughout the Caribbean by:
  • a.) Praying for young people and youth ministry development throughout the Caribbean
  • b.) Responding to invitations from communities interested in youth ministry
  • c.) Reaching out to communities regardless of their social, ethnic or cultural background
  • d.) Living in the communities where this organization seeks to minister
  • e.) Building trusting relationships within the community in order to identify and understand others in their thinking, actions, methods, and world-views
  • f.) Identifying, training and empowering leaders
  • g.) Training leadership teams in spiritual leadership, relational ministry, evangelism, discipleship and camping
  • h.) Reaching out to disinterested and unchurched youth by providing regularly scheduled events and camping opportunities where they can hear the Gospel in a language they can understand
  • i.) Building personal relationships with youth
  • j.) Modeling an exemplary lifestyle that reflects the Lordship of Jesus Christ
  • k.) Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with youth
  • l.) Offering opportunities for young people to receive Christ as their personal Lord and Savior
  • m.) Committing to invest in relationships with these young people for the long haul; through the post-high school years and on into adulthood
  • n.) Disciplining teenagers who have responded to the Gospel and are seeking to follow Christ
  • o.) Creating student leadership and college leadership teams to help young people discover their gifts and reach their full God-given potential
  • p.) Always having the goal of creating a three-fold indigenous ministry (self-funding, self-governing, self-propagating)
  • q.) Assisting local leaders in the development of suitable places to conduct their ministry
  • r.) Introducing youth to the broader Body of Christ through involvement in a local church
• 2. To partner with Caribbean youth organizations in order to serve them through any of the following ways:
  • a.) Providing air travel for ministry related purposes (camping, conferences, board meetings, training, etc.)
  • b.) Providing boat travel for ministry related purposes
  • c.) Providing financial assistance to youth organizations to further their ministry goals
  • d.) Providing training for directors, staff and volunteers
  • e.) Providing spiritual direction for directors, staff and volunteers
  • f.) Providing volunteer mission teams
  • g.) Recruiting, training, and sending missionary staff
  • h.) Offering professional advice and consultation in the areas of ministry related ventures, fundraising, and organizational development
  • i.) To function as a supply line for overseas youth ministries
  • j.) To facilitate support and aid for youth who are poor, orphaned, or abandoned by family
  • k.) To facilitate assistance for students to further educational achievement and advancement
• 3. To facilitate the networking of like-minded youth organizations for the purposes of:
  • a.) Bringing isolated communities of youth ministry leaders together for encouragement, exposure, and equipping
  • b.) Bringing youth from different organizations, communities, and islands together for evangelistic camps, retreats, events, etc.
  • c.) Bringing college students and adults together for leadership training and planning
  • d.) Building healthy relationships, mutually benefiting from each other’s spiritual gifts, and exchanging resources and ideas

 
For more information or to make a donation, please contact Dan & Kelly Weightman at cynbahamas@yahoo.com or visit www.caribbeanyouthnetwork.org.