Many of you may know by now  that Awana has decided to discontinue the MIT program as we know it and "rebrand" the program as a ministry for College Age students to work directly with US missionaries.  However,  God has laid a wonderful opportunity before us.  Our passion remains to provide US Youth with valuable opportunities to serve the Lord in domestic and international locations.  Coupled with that, we continue to be burdened with the privilege and responsibility to serve international Awana missionaries by continuing to send them highly motivated, highly trained teams willing to serve alongside them and to enhance their ministry efforts.  With this said, Brian Hughes, the MIT area specialist for Kyle Herr's area has formed a non-profit missions organization called Youth Ministries International.  We are very excited to join Brian in this ministry to continue to serve the Lord in a capacity similar to what we have done in MIT.  If you would like to learn more about this organization, please go to the website at www.ymimissions.org.

 

The Board of Directors for this new ministry include Don and Cheryl  DeVinney, former MIT specialists for the  North East, Rick and Raeanne Valasquez, former MIT specialists for the North West, and Buddy and Kristi Combs, former MIT Specialist for the South East.  It is our goal and prayer that we can pick up where MIT left off in providing quality missionary experiences for youth.

If you are interested, please contact Don at don@ddevinney.com or feel free to visit the Youth Ministries International website.   We are planning to have our fall training in Pavilion, NY as before.