Circuit riders
What is circuit riders?
Circuit Riders is a YWAM mission and training community that launches movements to reach the next generation. Our passion is Jesus, our mission field is our generation and our opportunity is now.
Our strategy
Training: we create leaders
The mission moves at the speed of leaders. At the center of the Circuit Riders ethos is training and discipling catalytic leaders and teams.
Our discipleship ethos:
Cultivating a real love for Jesus is central to both our purpose and the key to building leaders who last.
Personal freedom and embracing our identity accelerates the maturity and health of our relationship with Jesus and leadership style.
All our leadership development happens in the context of mission and relationship
We cast a vision for evangelism and mission and train leaders with practical skillsets to be effective.
True impact comes from making more leaders who make and empower more leaders.
- A lifestyle of worship and prayer.
- Creating a value and discipline to study the Bible.
- Living with intention the culture of Jesus.
Personal freedom and embracing our identity accelerates the maturity and health of our relationship with Jesus and leadership style.
- Understanding our unique gifts and design.
- Identifying key strongholds that hold us back in our relationship with God and assignment.
- Walking in vulnerability that leads to freedom.
All our leadership development happens in the context of mission and relationship
- Our focus is on relationships first and ministry second.
- Radical permission and empowerment are key for real innovation and impact.
- Our motive is obedience, not results.
We cast a vision for evangelism and mission and train leaders with practical skillsets to be effective.
- We train each leader to communicate effectively whether it is through preaching, media or music.
- We train leaders on how to build collaborative partnerships, networks, and movements to reach the next generation.
- We train leaders on how to gather, cast vision, and catalyze
True impact comes from making more leaders who make and empower more leaders.
- Leaders Who Make Leaders
- Leaders Who Lead Others Into Intimacy
- Leaders Who Lead Through Relationship
- Leaders Who Value Empowerment
Our training
Circuit Rider Experience: A 5-month discipleship training school designed to build your relationship with Jesus, develop you as a leader, and send you as a missionary.
Circuit Rider Schools: A 10-day training experience built to grow your relationship with Jesus, train you as an evangelist and launch you as a leader ready to catalyze movement where you are from.
Riders Youth Camp: A 10-day summer training for High School students to grow in their relationship with Jesus and be equipped as an evangelist to reach their High School.
Internships: We customize specific training programs for high-level skills like media, music, and campaign evangelism.
Circuit Rider Schools: A 10-day training experience built to grow your relationship with Jesus, train you as an evangelist and launch you as a leader ready to catalyze movement where you are from.
Riders Youth Camp: A 10-day summer training for High School students to grow in their relationship with Jesus and be equipped as an evangelist to reach their High School.
Internships: We customize specific training programs for high-level skills like media, music, and campaign evangelism.
MOVEMENT: WE CATALYZE MOVEMENT
We create movements that reach the generation where they are in a way they can relate to. Each of our movements has been birthed in prayer and the prophetic and is focused on meeting reel needs. Our movements are message and cause-focused instead of personality-driven, they are focused on training and activating believers, reaching the lost, providing community, and calling people into further action.
Our movements:
CARRY THE LOVE
Purpose:
Reaching and activating college students with the message of Jesus.
The Need:
More than 95% - 99% of the average college campus is unengaged in a Christian campus group. They are filled with warring ideologies, depression, loneliness, partying, and purposelessness.
What We Do?
As Carry The Love we:
How do we do it? We do this through our Carry The Love tour and online community. Each year we engage hundreds of universities in America, Europe, and East Africa reaching more than 10,000 students a year.
Purpose:
Reaching and activating college students with the message of Jesus.
The Need:
More than 95% - 99% of the average college campus is unengaged in a Christian campus group. They are filled with warring ideologies, depression, loneliness, partying, and purposelessness.
What We Do?
As Carry The Love we:
- We organize evangelistic and training gatherings.
- Train students to share the Gospel.
- Mobilize outreaches.
- Provide resources and community through our online platform.
- Partner with students to catalyze Gospel movements.
How do we do it? We do this through our Carry The Love tour and online community. Each year we engage hundreds of universities in America, Europe, and East Africa reaching more than 10,000 students a year.
CARRY THE LOVE FESTIVALS
BEYOND OUR GRASSROOTS TOURS AND GATHERINGS, WE SATURATE CAMPUSES AND CITIES FOR 1-WEEK EVANGELISM CAMPAIGNS. FOR EACH CARRY THE LOVE FESTIVAL WE:
WHAT MAKES OUR CARRY THE LOVE FESTIVAL UNIQUE IS THE CORE STRATEGY IS FOCUSED ON TRAINING AND EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE AS EVANGELISTS. SOMETHING POWERFUL TAKES PLACE WHEN THE YOUTH OF THE CITY UNITE TO REACH THEIR CITY.
BEYOND OUR GRASSROOTS TOURS AND GATHERINGS, WE SATURATE CAMPUSES AND CITIES FOR 1-WEEK EVANGELISM CAMPAIGNS. FOR EACH CARRY THE LOVE FESTIVAL WE:
- UNITE CHURCHES AND YOUTH MOVEMENTS TO REACH THEIR CITY OR CAMPUS.
- WE TRAIN LOCAL YOUNG PEOPLE TO BE EVANGELISTS.
- WE SATURATE THE CITY OR CAMPUS WITH PERSONAL EVANGELISM AND ACTS OF SERVICE.
- WE CULMINATE OUR OUTREACH WITH GOSPEL EVENTS CONSISTING OF MUSIC AND AN EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONAL MINISTRY.
WHAT MAKES OUR CARRY THE LOVE FESTIVAL UNIQUE IS THE CORE STRATEGY IS FOCUSED ON TRAINING AND EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE AS EVANGELISTS. SOMETHING POWERFUL TAKES PLACE WHEN THE YOUTH OF THE CITY UNITE TO REACH THEIR CITY.
BRAVE LOVE WOMEN
Purpose:
Activating women to be missional voices and leaders.
The Need:
The majority of the global church are women; however, too often women have been confined to silence and the result is devastating to communities and culture. We see an opportunity to awaken women to their evangelistic voice and missional calling.
What We Do?
As Brave Love women we:
The Impact:
Already the movement has spread around the world impacting women in more than 50 nations. Each year more than 500 Brave Love Women gatherings are hosted and women are trained and launched through expressions or through training hubs. Women go on to be missionaries reaching unreached people groups, adoptive mothers taking foster children, evangelists reaching their local community, advocates bringing reconciliation and healing, and much more. One message but many expressions.
Purpose:
Activating women to be missional voices and leaders.
The Need:
The majority of the global church are women; however, too often women have been confined to silence and the result is devastating to communities and culture. We see an opportunity to awaken women to their evangelistic voice and missional calling.
What We Do?
As Brave Love women we:
- Unite and activate women through Brave Love Women gatherings on Universities and at Churches.
- Launch women’s Bible studies called “expressions” focused on growing in their identity as women, the Brave Love message, and then expressing through practical service and evangelism.
- We train women for long-term impact in the nation and around the globe through our training hubs.
- We funnel women into missional, justice, and compassion ministries to have a tangible impact in their community or abroad.
- We facilitate an online community where training content, resources, and new initiatives are released.
The Impact:
Already the movement has spread around the world impacting women in more than 50 nations. Each year more than 500 Brave Love Women gatherings are hosted and women are trained and launched through expressions or through training hubs. Women go on to be missionaries reaching unreached people groups, adoptive mothers taking foster children, evangelists reaching their local community, advocates bringing reconciliation and healing, and much more. One message but many expressions.
BLACK VOICES MOVEMENT
Purpose: Empowering young Black men & women into missions.
The Need: The American missions movement is only 1% Black. Black Voices exists to see that change. While the world may compete for the allegiance of Black Gen Z, King Jesus’ call is far greater. Black Voices reaches Black youth across America and empowers them into their missional calling.
What We Do?: Black Voices reaches and trains students across HBCUs and predominantly Black communities for the Gospel.
The Impact:
In this past first year of the Black Voices Movement, we have already gathered over 3,000 Black Gen Z, 200 of whom became newly saved.
We have gathered on 23 Historically Black Campuses & Universities, hosted 5 flash-point regional conferences across America, and catalyzed gospel movement in 13 local, predominantly Black communities.
We have trained 100 Black Gen Z men and women in high-touch gospel leadership training.
Black Voices Movement has leveraged its reach of Gen Z through media and music with a Black Voices Music album with 46,000 monthly listeners, and a media following of 8,000 on Instagram.
Purpose: Empowering young Black men & women into missions.
The Need: The American missions movement is only 1% Black. Black Voices exists to see that change. While the world may compete for the allegiance of Black Gen Z, King Jesus’ call is far greater. Black Voices reaches Black youth across America and empowers them into their missional calling.
What We Do?: Black Voices reaches and trains students across HBCUs and predominantly Black communities for the Gospel.
- Reach students across HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and predominantly black communities with the saving & empowering message of Jesus.
- Train young Black men and women in Gospel leadership, through conferences and leadership schools.
- Empower young leaders to gather their communities for Jesus.
- Provide students with resources and community through our online platform.
- Leverage our music platform by empowering Black worship leaders and musicians in a missional sound for Gen Z.
The Impact:
In this past first year of the Black Voices Movement, we have already gathered over 3,000 Black Gen Z, 200 of whom became newly saved.
We have gathered on 23 Historically Black Campuses & Universities, hosted 5 flash-point regional conferences across America, and catalyzed gospel movement in 13 local, predominantly Black communities.
We have trained 100 Black Gen Z men and women in high-touch gospel leadership training.
Black Voices Movement has leveraged its reach of Gen Z through media and music with a Black Voices Music album with 46,000 monthly listeners, and a media following of 8,000 on Instagram.
CIRCUIT RIDER YOUTH
Purpose: Reaching and training High School students.
The Need:
There are 15.1 million High School students in America and 24,000 Public High Schools yet only 20% of High School have an active Christian group on campus.
The Opportunity:
We see an opportunity to train and empower a generation ready for evangelism and mission to reach their High Schools with the Gospel.
What We Do?
The Impact: We have partnered with One Voice Student Missions to combine our efforts of reaching High School students together. Each year we reach 100,000s of young people online and 1,000s more in person. We have already received 100s of commitments from High School students who are ready to start a Jesus Club. This will be our inaugural year of visiting and serving these students through the Jesus Club tour.
Purpose: Reaching and training High School students.
The Need:
There are 15.1 million High School students in America and 24,000 Public High Schools yet only 20% of High School have an active Christian group on campus.
The Opportunity:
We see an opportunity to train and empower a generation ready for evangelism and mission to reach their High Schools with the Gospel.
What We Do?
- We train and empower students to start Jesus Clubs on their campus.
- We provide ongoing mentoring and online content to fuel the spiritual growth of every High School student working to reach their campus.
- We organize an evangelistic and training gathering with students through Jesus Club tours.
- We train and disciples High School students as evangelists through Riders Youth Camp.
The Impact: We have partnered with One Voice Student Missions to combine our efforts of reaching High School students together. Each year we reach 100,000s of young people online and 1,000s more in person. We have already received 100s of commitments from High School students who are ready to start a Jesus Club. This will be our inaugural year of visiting and serving these students through the Jesus Club tour.
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