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New Directions International Alumni

Our 40th Anniversary

January 07, 2008

Dear ND Alumnus,

Can you believe it?!  We are now 40 years old as a ministry!  It blows my mind to realize that we have now existed for 4 decades!  During that time we spiritually evolved from the Y Teen Caravan...to The New Directions...to New Directions Ministry...to the New Directions Evangelistic Association...to New Directions International.

But regardless of the alterations of our name, the essential spiritual DNA of NDI has never changed.  We have always been “Interdenominational, interracial, inter-cultural and international.”  What started out as a musical “Action Experience in Christian Love” primarily focused in America, has become a “Kingdom Adventure” that has literally expanded to scores of other countries around the world!

I continue to minister from the firm foundation that you all helped me pioneer in the late 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s.  It was our combination of being contemporary, evangelical and interracial that opened doors for us in foreign countries - beginning in Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, the Cayman Islands, Canada, the Bahamas and Germany.  Soon calls came from Africa and Asia.  Now NDI is regularly involved in over 25 countries around the world – and it expands yearly into new countries. 

It was our pioneering ministry of discipling and mentoring high school and college students through the medium of music that led us to the new mission paradigm of partnership with key national leaders in other countries.  So there is an unbroken line connecting you ND Alumni as Christian leaders in every walk of life to the hundreds of strategic national leaders we are mentoring and ministering with in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

 

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