ASM exists to REACH students, CONNECT them with God and others, and challenge them to GROW in their faith and SERVE others as they HONOR God with their lives.

* The Mission is what we want to accomplish. The Vision is what our ministry will look like – the environment that must exist in order to see our mission accomplished.

Our Vision is to be a ministry OF Students

(Not a ministry TO students)

 Throughout the Bible we have examples of God using young people to do extraordinary things in His name. Josiah was a king at the age of 6 and by the time he entered his 20’s God used him to bring an entire nation back to God. Mary was a teenager when she gave birth to the Savior of the World. The disciples were young men who turned the world upside down in the name of Jesus. The list goes on and on.

We believe that God is still the same today. He still loves to use young people to accomplish His work. That is why we are committed to becoming a ministry OF students not a ministry of adults TO students. A Ministry OF Students is one in which students don’t just attend, but fully participate and minister to their peers. Our desire is that all students would pursue full devotion to Jesus Christ and, as a result of His work in their lives, would fully participate in ministry.

This doesn’t mean we don’t need adults to minister. In fact, this means we need more adults to mentor our students to become ministers. The adults who serve with ‘the Storm’ must focus their time and energy on equipping and encouraging students to be ministers to their peers, not doing the ministry for our students (Ephesians 4:11-16; 2 Timothy 2:2).