Teen Mania Ministries

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Teen Mania Ministries is an Evangelical Christian mission organization located in Garden Valley, Texas. It was founded in 1986 by Ron Luce and his wife Katie in their van. The organization states its vision as: "To provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth."

It has been criticised by opponants for promoting hate and violence.

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[edit] Primary Ministries

There are five departments within the organization that help facilitate the ministry's vision.

[edit] Acquire the Fire / BattleCry

[edit] Acquire The Fire

Acquire the Fire (ATF) is a youth event that travels across the United States and Canada each year. The event is presented in different cities each weekend for young people from churches and youth groups. The events offer live concerts by Christian music artists and numerous dramas encouraging audience participation. The event promotes the large venue Battle Cry youth rallies, Global Expeditions foreign missions trips, Extreme Camps summer youth training camps, and Honor Academy training and internships for youth ministry.

The founder and CEO of Teen Mania Ministries, Ron Luce, speaks at each event. Other speakers include Joel Johnson and Mike Guzzardo, as well as various other well-known guests.

[edit] ATF Tour Names

Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Branded By God
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 Run To The Battle
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005 Keep It Real
Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 Power of One
Fall 2002 - Spring 2003 Live The Difference
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 Unshakeable
Fall 2000 - Spring 2001 Live God Loud
Fall 1999 - Spring 2000 Let The Revolution Begin

[edit] Battle Cry

The Battle Cry Campaign is a coalition of numerous Christian ministries and church leaders, being spearheaded by Teen Mania Ministries. The thrust of the Battle Cry campaign is to rally parents, pastors, churches, leaders, business people, politicians and celebrities around the emerging millennial [1983-present] generation.

[edit] BattleCry Leadership Summits

These Leadership Summits equip youth workers and pastors with the tools they need to lead their young people into battle. Each Summit features world-class speakers committed to a single purpose: reach this generation, no matter what the cost.

[edit] BattleCry Stadium Events

Massive stadium events are the second phase of the movement and will be held in the same three cities as the leadership summits. These enormous gatherings will be the contact point for thousands of teenagers to connect with God and get a vision much bigger than themselves. Youth workers and parents can use the events to rally their young people and reach out to teens in their area.

[edit] Global Expeditions

Global Expeditions is one of the largest short-term sending agency of missionaries in the world. Each summer, Global Expeditions sends upwards of 3,400 North American young people on mission trips in which they travel for between one and eight weeks to countries all around the world. Each mission trip is different, varying from service-related trips - such as tsunami or hurricane relief - to drama and street evangelism trips.

The typical project consists of between 30 and 150 missionaries. Two Project Directors manage each project, one male and one female. These Directors must have extensive travel experience and are hand-picked by Teen Mania Ministries as being trustworthy and capable of leading such a large group. Usually, there are two Team Leaders (TL), one male and one female, for each team of 20-30 missionaries. These are co-ed teams that are split into smaller groups of three to five missionaries. These groups are called MAGs (Missionary Advisory Group) and are each overseen by one Missionary Advisor (MA), male or female.

In 2005, Global Expeditions performed their largest mission trip to date by taking over 850 missionaries into Tijuana, Mexico, and building 28 homes in 5 days.

[edit] Honor Academy

The Honor Academy is a one-year internship providing high school graduates a firm grounding in Christian principals prior to college or workforce entry. Some interns stay on for additional years as Graduate Interns.

[edit] Extreme Camps

Extreme Camps are a series of annual summer camps. Each camp provides activities such as concerts, interactive and motivational sessions, team building activities, mountain biking, extreme games, swimming, paintball and ETAC, the East Texas Adventure Course.

[edit] Center for Creative Media

The Center for Creative Media (CCM) trains young people to connect their culture with the message of the Gospel. CCM interns not only receive training from industry experts, but are also actively involved in producing media for live events, the Internet and broadcasts.

[edit] The Campus

[edit] ETAC

ETAC is the East Texas Adventure Course, a high- and low-ropes adventure course and rock climbing facility located at Teen Mania Ministries' headquarters in Garden Valley, Texas. It has 20 high-ropes (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3, two Giant Swings and three Zip Lines) and 30 low-ropes elements (including the Mohawk Walk, Team Wall, Trust Fall, Wild Woozy), a rock climbing tower (two climbing walls facing east and west, a cargo net on the south and Jacob's Ladder on the north side) and 3 zip lines.

[edit] Back 40

  • Sandpit
  • Jeep Swallow

[edit] Supporting Departments

[edit] Fleet/Transportation

[edit] K-Crew

The Kitchen-Crew consists of interns and seasonal volunteers providing meal services for interns and missionaries (link: K-crew...4-Ever Blogring)

[edit] Grounds & Maintenance

[edit] Marketing

In addition to its in-house marketing department, Teen Mania has chosen Austin-based marketing agency and measurement consultancy Tocquigny as its agency of record. Teen Mania is also involved in the East Texas Advertising Federation. Their advertising has won them several ADDY Awards. Other agencies that have helped to market Teen Mania Minstries include: Cook Communications, Artistry Marketing, Cypress Interactive, IntegriDesign & many more.

[edit] Criticism

Journalist and anti-Bush activist Sunsara Taylor has publicly opposed what she sees as Teen Mania Ministries "hateful", "hyperpatriotic", "woman-bashing" and "racist" stance.[1] In a debated with her on United States TV Ron Luce said "There are young people all over America and they are realizing that they are caught in the middle of this culture war They are saying, you know what? We want our voices to be heard. We love the Lord and we're not mean."

[edit] See also

Teen Mania is a member of the Arlington Group, a coalition which unites the leaders of almost all of the most prominent Christian Right organizations in the United States.

[edit] External links


Anti-Teen Mania Websites

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