Youth Mobilization

Updates: 1. The Youth Mobilization team had a wonderful time at our Planning and Team Building retreat last June 2 nd . This planning was for I-Bike and the Youth Center for the second half of the year. It went well and we all feel rejuvenated as we had time reflecting on God’s faithfulness in our personal lives and in our work. During this Planning and Team Building retreat, the I-Bike teachers gave a demo on how they could improve their teaching and how they can add some exciting ways to encourage their students to learn. The Youth Center workers planned to find ways on how they can be more effective in connecting with young people and getting them interested to join activities. Our aim is to empower youth by guiding, leading and mentoring them to be a productive part of their families and communities. If you would like to know more about the Youth Center , you may send an email to youthmob.official@gmail.com 2. I-Bike starts again with the school year this June...

Ryan started to volunteer himself in Youth Mobilization’s mobile school project. He is one driving the I-BIKE and in-charge of taking care of everything that is inside the I-Bike like Lesson Materials, pencils, crayons, etc. He is also in-charge of setting up the class and putting up tables and chairs for students. He likes to mingle with the kids, play around with them and telling funny stories to them. He goes along with kids really well. Maybe because of his funny character that kids love. He always dreaming someday he will be a teacher for kids but he ends up thinking he wont be good enough because he don’t know how and what to teach. He doesn’t have proper trainings or a degree in school. These reasons hinder him to pursue his dream to be a teacher for kids someday. Then Youth Mobilization went to a province nearby last week of April to hold a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for kids. He was assigned to tell a story which is part of the program for VBS. He was excited that fi...

One of our team members,  Raymond  is going back to school this June. This is exciting for our team as we are all aspiring to be more effective in our commitment to serve people. Raymond will be studying Education. He will be taking this course because he would like to be more effective in teaching children in our mobile school project, I-BIKE. Youth Mobilization sees potential in Raymond's life. He is dedicated, hard-working, and goes along with kids really well. And taking E ducation to be a licensed teacher is a big improvement for him and for the mobile school project. Let us continue to shower our encouragement by supporting him in our prayers and though financial giving to cover his daily school expenses. And together we will celebrate for the success of God through Raymond's life. Please email me: mackie_youthmob@hotmail.com to know how you can donate for Raymond.  or you can email Mike Snow, msnow@extremeresponse.org and let him know that you wou...

After many months of looking for a place we can use for office and Youth Center purposes, the Lord has finally provided us a home. This house has a suitable parking space for the YM van and for the I-BIKE bicycle, a room we can use as an office, a spacious kitchen, a library, and another room we can use as a youth centre. Teaches Basic English  Youth Center Youth Center We decided to let go of our old office because we realized the many potentials if we rent a house instead of a room in a building. The idea is to have a hub for the many ministries we are running in reaching-out our communities. So we finally got it and we truly love this house. Office Room VBS lMeeting We just moved a week ago and we are indeed looking forward to seeing many stories of change. Just a week after, our new home now is a venue for a lot of activities. The Youth meets here five days a week while our church members gather here every Tuesday evening for a time of pr...

I-Bike (A Mobile School Project) Story of Change: Lord Ghave Jocson Here is Lord Ghave, 4 years old. He is one of our students in I-Bike (A Mobile School Project) who touched our hearts when we get to know his story. He came from a poor family, his father is a “pedicab” driver earning below minimum and his mother is jobless. He has three siblings and he is the third one from the eldest. Since his age is too close to the youngest, he didn’t get enough attention from his family. He is, in a way, neglected because his father is always out working and his mother’s attention is always on the youngest. One time, when he noticed a group of kids studying in the street, he came and sat down to observed. Because he loves to get attention, he usually disturbed students of I-Bike to play with him. That is when we noticed him. Instead of asking him to stay out of our class for us to have a quality time to teach our students, we just let him sit down and observe. Then everytime he heard...

This afternoon, I together with Ryan visited Under Thy Wings Christian Academy  to see the new construction of the school. As the principal of the school, Teacher Rose, showed us the new rooms they have and telling stories of God’s faithfulness for providing the need for the new construction. Before, they only have ground floor but now they built up to four floors. It is by God’s grace and by the generosity of people who believe in purpose of educating children from poor community who cannot pay a formal school. It was a blessing to visit them again. I remember when we (YM Team) with a summer team from Canada came here in this school 2008 to build a playground to children. This playground was donated by couple friend, after seeing a need to build one for the students of the school. After five (5) years, the playground still brings joy to children in the school. I saw them enjoying their time in the playground when we visited this afternoon. It brings back the joy ...

We are happy to invite every youth in every church to come and join us in our Windows YP 2014. This is a Youth Missions Conference that aims to bring awareness, stirs-up interest, equip, empower and challenge the youth to participate in missions. Here are important details of the Conference: When:              May 8-10, 2014, 8am-5pm Where              International Teams Philippines Office                         3751 Bautista Street , Palanan, Makati City Reg. Fee:         Php400 Lunch is not included. If you are interested to join, feel free to call/text us at 0909 922 3580 or email us at, youthmob.official@gmail.com . We are looking forward to hear from you.