Vision

TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION

" Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the ages."

Matthew 28:18-20

Mission

TO REACH OUT TO THE YOUTH THROUGH TRAINED YOUTH

" It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth. "

Isaiah 19:6

Strategy

DISCIPLESHIP AND MULTIPLICATION

" And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. "

2 Timothy 2:2

• Through training/discipling and establishing young leaders in order for them to reach their peer group;
• Through the involvement of married couples. In this regard there are two strategies:
  - A couple joining CYB for training in discipleship, ministry-, leadership skills, etc. for at least two years and with the purpose of starting another branch of the CYB ministry some where else in Southern Africa or
  - A couple joining CYB for training in discipleship, ministry-, leadership skills, etc. and then becoming staff members at the existing branch of the ministry in Machadodorp.
• The establishment of training centres in Southern Africa countrywide from where the trained youth can reach schools and the community;
• Through the presentation of 'Life Skills' with the implementing of 'Youth at the Crossroads' an Abstinence Based Character Building program - it cultivates morality and makes continued evangelisation possible; Training volunteer workers
• Through the presentation of literacy classes;
• Through exposure and building opportunities like Youth gatherings, camps, hiking tours, leadership development courses and Be-Ex Clubs.
• Through promoting revival by establishing a Kingdom Vision amongst the churches

Statement of Faith

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible. God's infallible written Word, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts.

It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks. We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

We explicitly affirm our belief in basic bible teachings, as follows:

1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - each of who possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and his virgin birth. Hence, He is the perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
3. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified in which he lived and died.
5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intersession of His own.
6. Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from His creator. That historic fall brought mankind under divine condemnation.
7. Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of the regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
8. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes his righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.
9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Saviour. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirm in the believer the testimony of God in His written Word.
10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
11. Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfil the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
12. Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
13. God admonished His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scripture and for mutual encouragement.
14. At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
15. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgement and condemnation.
16. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth - personally, visibly and bodily - to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
17. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation.

The fulfilment of the Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to

"Him Who loved us and gave Himself for us"

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