Our STL Offering Goal
As kick a new year let us try to do our best and give to Speed The Light through an unconventional way! Our goal for this year as district is 50,000.00 which we believe it’s totally possible if each region raises 5k. Our deadline for this year ends on October and we are positive we can achieve this goal if we all work together. Click the link below to give online today or mail in your offering to our district office with the following memo written on it : SPDYM/ STL.
Speed The Light
Speed the Light is the student-initiated, volunteer, charitable program that provides much-needed equipment to missionaries across the nation and in over 180 countries around the world. It began in 1944 after Ralph Harris, then head of the National Youth Ministries department prayed for a way to give Assemblies of God students the opportunity to help missionaries in their work.
Nearly 75 years later, Speed the Light is one of the most effective youth missions ministries in existence. Since its beginning, over $300 million has been raised for missionary equipment around the world. And, Speed the Light is still helping to disciple students to live a life of generosity as they become personally responsible for the mission of God by helping our missionaries make Jesus known throughout the world.
Speed the Light operates with one guiding principle: all assistance must go to purchase equipment directly related to evangelism (“evangelism” is defined as propagating the gospel and instructing converts). Speed the Light equipment has not been nor is presently given for promotion, solicitation, or normal administrative functions.
The concept is simple: we give so others can speed the light of the gospel to a world in darkness. This is accomplished by providing the “essential transportation and creative communication” equipment for missionary evangelism. Through modern transportation, radio, television, print, audio, and digital equipment, our missionaries can help make Jesus known.
Speed the Light operates with one guiding principle: all assistance must go to purchase equipment directly related to evangelism (“evangelism” is defined as propagating the gospel and instructing converts). Speed the Light equipment has not been nor is presently given for promotion, solicitation, or normal administrative functions.
If our missionaries are going to get to those who do not yet know Jesus, it will be because of Speed the Light. Every missionary in the Assemblies of God will at some point fly, drive, or float to their destination in transportation that has been provided to them by our churches and students through Speed the Light. Airplanes, cars, vans, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses, boats, horses, camels, donkeys, wheel barrows, etc…if it has wheels or hooves and can carry a missionary to a country, city, town, village, or under a card board box where someone is waiting to hear about Jesus, Speed the Light has provided it.
Simply put, we give so our missionaries can travel faster, preach clearer, and be heard louder in order for all to know Jesus.
Simply click on the orange button below, place your amount, add our district name “Southern Pacific District Youth Ministry” (for record keeping) and press submit. All funds go directly to the national office to be distribute to the missionaries we are currently supporting. For more information contact our office at 0ffice@spdym.org
T-shirt for STL
Create a t-shirt design and have your youth group purchase it. Send your design to us and we will add it to our SPDYM online store. All proceeds go to STL.
Recycle for STL
Have monthly youth group bible studies and offer drinks to your guest for one dollar. Recycle the cans or plastic bottles after each bible study. Send us the proceeds and we will match it.
Call out for STL
Host a volleyball tournament with your regional churches. Charge 100 per team. The winner gets to play against our SPDYM staff and If they win, they get to go to youth convention for free.
Preach for STL
Invite our staff to preach to your youth group gatherings. All offerings raised during that service will be donated to STL.
Ask for STL
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Tell a friend about the importance of giving to STL.
Reels for STL
Create Tik Tok, Instagram and facebook reels tracking your fundraising journey forr STL. The winner who raises the most funds for STL will be featured at youth convention this year.
Six interactive ways you can give to STL
Each year we make a public pledge to fundraise a certain amount for STL. As such we then come up with fun, innovative, and strategic ways to fundraise. Check out these 6 fundraising ideas.
Emergency Relief Projects
SPDYM, is partnering up with Speed the Light who is currently helping Convoy of Hope who is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a driving passion to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreach, and disaster response. In partnership with local churches, businesses, civic organizations, and government agencies, Convoy strategically offers help and hope to communities around the world. If you want to help those who are in need click on the below and learn about you can make a difference.
Convoy Of Hope
From the “crossroads of America” in Springfield, Missouri, Convoy of Hope sends truckloads of food and relief supplies from its World Distribution Center to cities and rural towns. Convoy trucks travel coast to coast, delivering goods used for events and disaster responses. To learn more on how to get involve click on this button below.
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Meet The Moody Family
Kenton is a farm boy, born in Oregon and later moved to Missouri. As a young boy, he felt a call to be a missionary. God renewed that call while in college and he began working with Hispanics in the US, later moving to Panama to serve in missions. Through tragic circumstances, Kenton became a single parent dad with three small children. “I learned compassion first-hand through this experience,” says Kenton. Elsie was a God-send and they joined two families together. Kenton then served as International Director for 12 years with Convoy of Hope, traveling the world bringing assistance in the wake of disasters. In 2008, they felt God speak to them to return to the mission field and live in El Salvador.
In 2010, Kenton and Elsie started working with the poor in Western El Salvador, in the city of Santa Ana. With God’s help, they have started the Center of Hope, which is a before and after school program in a gang area. There they teach computer, English, homework reinforcement, cooking, baking, cosmetology, and music. In 2013, God gave them the vision to start the Hosanna School in another very poor area of Santa Ana. The school, which is Kindergarten through high school, now has more than 380 students. They feed them, teach Computer, English, and Bible, but most of all give them God’s love.
Also in 2012, the Moody’s started the Open Door Church in a needy area of town near the bars and houses of prostitution. God has grown the church from just a handful to approximately 200 people. They moved the church to a gang-ridden area along the Pan-American highway to reach a very poor sector of the city along the former railroad. The church has grown to 400 in attendance and continues to reach out to those most in need.
In late 2015, Elsie passed away after a rapid fight with cancer. Kenton continues with the same vision of Compassion, Connection, and Commitment to reach those most in need.
