Become a ministry partner.

Dear Friends,

I would like to share with you a ministry that God has graciously led me to be a part of called Youth for Christ. The ministry of YFC in Palm Beach County is extremely unique in that we preach the Gospel in public middle schools and high schools. I have become a campus missionary to Wellington High School. This school has almost 3,000 students, most of whom are living life right now separated from their creator and having no idea of the reconciliation that is available to them through Jesus Christ. This past school year God has done some amazing things through this ministry at Wellington High School. I have been able to share life with these students while on campus and I have been able to take the hope of the Gospel into their world!

As I begin to prepare for the summer and then for next school year, I am asking people like you, people whom I believe have a heart for a ministry like this, if they would become partners with me by financially supporting this ministry. Will you please pray about becoming 1 of 100 people who would be willing to give $20 a month for the sake of the Gospel and the nearly 3,000 students at Wellington High who need it?

If you feel led to become a ministry partner, please use the link below to contact me and provide your contact information so I can send you some information about getting that process started. I covet your prayers and your support.

Become a Ministry Partner

Thank you,

Mike

A Campus Life video

Here is a video that I made with some of the students from Campus Life.

July 2008

“Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.”
~E.M. Bounds

It is incredible to think that God has given us a mission to engage every student at Wellington High School with the life-changing message of Jesus. This is no small task that can be accomplished by careful planning and determination; instead it will take a holy dependency on the God who has issued this charge. Like Moses standing before the Red Sea wondering how in the world he can deliver the nation of Israel, the task can only be accomplished by divine intervention.

I truly covet your prayers. The more I become entrenched in the mission the more I realize how vital a dependency on our Lord is. Currently I am trying to make inroads into Wellington High, build relationships with students, and build a team of people who will give their time to Campus Life. These are my petitions before the Lord and I ask that you would also join me and take them to God. A simple way that you can become a prayer partner is by filling out the enclosed card with your email and sending it back in the enclosed envelope. I will send out weekly emails with specific needs and ways that you can intercede on behalf of the students we have been called to love.

I thank the Lord that he has not created us to live our lives in isolation, but has created us to live out our faith in the context of friendships. God has given me incredible friends who support this ministry both financially and prayerfully. As we lean on the strong arms of God to accomplish the mission he has set before us, may we also lean on each other bearing one another’s burdens in love.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Mike Brunjes

June 2008

The single greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind serious pleasure
that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is
-John Piper

This quote by John Piper hangs above my desk at the YFC office; it is the heart beat of Campus Life ministry. We are always pursuing young people and engaging them with the life-changing message of the Gospel. This Gospel is not simply a heaven and hell transaction, but an invitation to live better and to love better. This message is not disconnected from our everyday lives, but changes our everyday lives.

I had the privilege earlier this month, along with 3 other YFC staff members, to attend a 10-day training institute in Huntington, Indiana. It was there that this cause became crystal clear to me. God has called me to give my life to the students of Wellington High School for the sake of the Gospel.

As the summer begins and we start to make preparations for the next school year it has become clear that Campus Life is not an attractional ministry; we are not inviting students to come to a program or event, our ministry is incarnational. We are inviting students to a relationship and to a way of life.

Please continue to pray that God would provide open doors for meaningful relationships with students, as well as the resources necessary to serve the young people and schools God has called me to. I am thankful that God has used your faithfulness and support to show me His faithfulness.

Soli Deo Gloria

Mike

Summer Institute Quotables

So this is the first day back in the office since I have been back from Summer Institute. Here some quotes I enjoyed from SI

Dave Rahn:

“Become a student of the community you are trying to reach”

“The Kingdom grows by multiplication not addition”

“Don’t sellout the mission for the sake of partner”

Ron Rickner

“Enthusiasm is no substitute for preparation”

“The truth will set you free and it will make you flinch”

Summer Institute Schedule

I’d say that I am going to be pretty busy.

Summer Institute

Today I left with four other Palm Beach County YFC staff for Summer Institute at Huntington University in Ft. Wayne Indiana. A 10 day training for all new staff nation wide. I met a few guys from Hawaii this evening. I flew out of Miami at 8 this morning and am just now getting to bed. YFC President Dan Wolgemoth spoke tonight and it was very good. 10 days is a long to be away from home and away from my wife. Please pray for me that I don’t let things like that prevent me from learning and taking things away for these 10 days. I will try to blog as much as I can during these 10 days. You can follow me on twitter and also keep checking here for the latest updates on what is going on in the life of this ministry.

Campus Life Myspace

Campus Life has made it big time! We have a myspace.

Check it out: myspace.com/campuslife_whs

May 2008

Several weeks ago my supervisor asked me to write three reasons why I am on staff with Youth for Christ. He wanted me to truly think about the things God had called me to and what I wanted to see accomplished in the lives of the students I minister to. After really thinking and praying, this is what that list looked liked:

1. To see students lives transformed by the life-changing message of the Gospel

2. To see students develop a Biblical worldview, have personal Bible study, and be involved in a local church

3. To see students grasp a vision for Gospel ministry so that they affect change around them

These are the planks that make up the platform of our mission statement: To give students a faith-based framework from which to live all of life. Through your partnership and prayer God is using us to accomplish this great work! How amazing is it that the God of the universe is using us as agents of change in the lives of students.

I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to partner with you and so many others who share a passion and a burden for this ministry.

Wellington teen dies after partying with friends

It is with a heavy heart that I post this story.

Wellington teen dies after partying with friends

This is why we are starting Campus Life. Because people who live life apart from Christ are destroying their lives, they are held captive by the sin and the consequences are devastating. My desire is that he Gospel would penetrate the hearts of students in Wellington, and lives would be saved, and families would be restored, and the bonds of sin would be broken.

Please pray for the family of this teenager, and pray that God would move in the hearts of the students I will serving. Christ has a life that far exceeds the desires of the flesh, and is far more rewarding the a life lived in nominal morality.

Fullness of joy and happiness can only be found in a life lived for the Glory of Christ. This story just reminds me of the gravity of the mission and the desperation of generation who does not know Christ.