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MISSIONS

Taking the Gospel into all the world

Owen & Lynda Prout
Youth Dimension

Our passion is to encourage, equip and support churches in reaching out to their local schools and into their communities with the good news of Jesus Christ.
YD’s motto ‘giving a generation hope’, drives us to proclaim the incredible life we find in Christ through diverse, collaborative missions and programs.

 Our role in the Outreach Department is to find and apply innovative ways to connect churches to their community.  YD programs such as Student Focus (Secondary school ministry), REBOOT (Primary school ministry) and Blue Moose (Summer and Mid-year missions) are the vehicles we currently use.

 We also work closely with the Wellbeing and Internship departments as we have an opportunity to serve schools in new and different ways in our ever-changing culture.

Our hope is that many more churches will join us as we support chaplains and other programs in having a gospel presence in schools and beyond. Owen is working full time and Lynda is working 4 days, both on a 100% support basis.  This means we are fully reliant on generous people and churches giving to YD every month. 

We are so blessed to be a part of the Follow family as we partner for the Gospel both locally and beyond in the vital work of reaching young people for Jesus

Tim and Shelby Watkin

Tim and Shelby Watkin serve within the Campus strategy of Power to Change, Australia. They seek to help university students in Victoria and neighbouring states to encounter Jesus today, impact Australia tomorrow and reach the Nations for eternity.

They have been missionaries with Power to Change since early 2019 and work on a team locally in Melbourne, connecting with students and sharing the Gospel, training and equipping them to share their faith on their campus and sending them into their workplaces, communities and families to help others connect to Jesus also. Our mission is to connect, build and send Christ-centred disciple-makers who launch and lead spiritual movements. 

Both Tim and Shelby were student leaders with Power to Change while at University themselves, and have felt called to continue working as missionaries with the organisation after they graduated to impact students' lives and live out the Great Commission.

Tim works full-time focussing on pioneering new campus movements and heading up digital initiatives and online advertising to reach students while studying part-time at Ridley Bible College. Shelby works part-time in social media and graphic design while looking after their girls.

They have three young daughters, Acacia, Oakleigh and Hazel and are regular attendees and members of Follow Baptist Church.

Emily Prout

Emily is currently working on creating a video game that tells the story of the Gospel for a non-Christian audience.

The gaming community online is extremely anti-Christian, and there are very little outreach initiatives to speak to the young people there. In response to this gap, Emily is creating ‘Lux’, the story about a girl who receives a lantern and sees a vision of a man who sacrificed himself to defeat the darkness years ago. She uses the light in this lantern to fight the darkness and discover more about who this man really is.

Alongside this, Emily is working at cultivating an online community of Christians to provide both a space to talk about the game, and the space for young gamers to interact with Christians normally, reducing the stigma around Christianity and opening conversations that lead them closer to Christ. The first demo of the game is due to release on November 25th, 2023.

Mukti

Mukti Australia exists to make freedom a reality for women and children living in India and Sri Lanka. We work alongside local partners to empower those living in vulnerable situations, focusing on our four pillars: education, health, skills training & empowerment, and holistic care.

Mukti Website

Hohidiai - Esther & Peter Scarborough

Hohidiai is a local language word which means “to restore”. For over twenty years this has and continues to be the focus of the project. Esther and Peter founded Hohidiai and live in North Maluku, Indonesia. This region of North Maluku was decimated by a horizontal conflict that saw the loss of businesses, houses, infrastructure and most tragically many lives. Due to this conflict, this remote region suffers from educational poverty and vulnerability.

In the past few years, advances of technology and social media have reached the region but has caused a spike in online exploitation and pornography. Hohidiai provides education around the risks of the online world and sexual abuse in schools, churches and community groups. The project also sponsors the rehabilitation of young people who have suffered from these dangers.

Hohidiai sponsors children through school and those in tertiary level education with the aim of lifting people out of poverty through education. On site at Hohidiai there is also a beautiful Early Learning Centre and the site provides clean drinking water to the surrounding communities. To know more about Hohidiai you can checkout the links below:

Hohidiai.org
restorehopeindonesia.org

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30 Tivendale Road, Officer VIC 3809

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Our Vision is Jesus! Our Mission is to Follow Him, in our Community, for His Glory!