The mission of Ken Turner Ministries is to introduce a generation of youth to a relationship with Jesus Christ and a relationship to God’s word.

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Over 12,000 teens have been reached through our High Impact Teen spiritual journals but something is missing. What about all the teens who are not fortunate enough to be in a church youth group? What about those who are troubled and hurting?

There are thousands of teens each year that find themselves in detention centers. There are huge ministry opportunities available to reach these teenagers and other youth in our communities with the good news of Jesus Christ.

The Mission Statement

The mission of Ken Turner Ministries, Inc. is to introduce a generation of youth to a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and a relationship with God’s Word.

Exploring the possibilities.

Ken Turner Ministries was formed based on the growing need to introduce teens to a growing relationship with Christ through His Word. In September 1987 Ken entered full-time youth ministry as a local church youth pastor in Nashville, TN. In 1995 Ken published a one-year spiritual journal called the High Impact Teen Spiritual Journal. The journal was developed in its infant stages a few years earlier while Ken served as a youth pastor in South Bend, Indiana. After developing the concept of a spiritual journal for teens and incorporating it in to the youth group, the spiritual impact was astounding. Before using the journal 80% of the regular youth group teens did not read the Bible on their own. After using the journal 80% of the youth group teens read the Bible and kept a journal of their walk with God at least four or more days each week. Over the next three years, dozens of youth group teens made decisions to go in to full-time Christian service. The HIT Journal was made available to other churches and to date over 12,000 teens have used the HIT Journal from all over the USA and some foreign countries.

But something is missing. In December 2007, after much prayer, the Lord began to impress the need on Ken’s heart to reach teens beyond the church walls. Ken began to research the need among hurting and troubled teens in Indianapolis. After meeting with the head chaplain of a local Children’s Hospital, the directors of youth at several inner city youth organizations and the activity coordinator of the Indianapolis Marion County Juvenile Detention Center, the response was overwhelmingly clear there is a huge need for a ministry partnership with these organizations.

Ken Turner Ministries, Inc. was formed on April 24, 2008 as a non-profit ministry to focus on ministry to troubled and hurting teenagers. The initial focus was to partner with hospitals, youth mission organizations and detention centers. There are two key goals, (1) To introduce teens to a relationship with Jesus Christ and (2) To introduce teens to a relationship with God’s word.

Ministry Possibilities

Directors of two inner city youth organizations both indicated a gap between teaching teens from the inner city about God and teaching them how to experience God personally. Structure and simplicity are key to leading these youth down a new path of life.

Detention centers just may be our greatest mission field opportunity. The volunteer director of the Marion County Detention Center has received approval from supervisors to allow an official partnership with Ken Turner Ministries. The door was opened to come in and share the gospel and provide a special edition HIT Journal for detention centers as a tool for evangelism and discipleship. There are 145 beds in the Marion County Detention Center alone. There are over 1700 beds in youth detention centers in the state of Indiana. A ministry to one youth detention center of 80 teens in Washington has seen 12,000 teens ministered to and over 4000 salvation decisions in the past 6 years.

Our Doctrinal Statement

Ken Turner

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

1.         I believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.

2.         I believe in one God, eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, manifesting Himself in Three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature, equal in attributes, power, and glory.

3.         I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man.

4.         I believe that God created man in His own image and in a state of innocency, but man willfully transgressed God’s law and lost communion with God, becoming dead in sin, corrupt in nature, and incapable of pleasing God.

5.         I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and rose again for our justification; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood and are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works.

6.         I believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God, possessing eternal life.

7.         I believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

8.         I believe in the personal and visible premillennial, pretribulational return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to reign upon the earth.

9.         I believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead:  the saved to a life of eternal glory and bliss in Heaven with God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire.

10.      I believe in separation from all worldly practice, in whole-hearted devotion to the cause of Christ, in a high standard of Christian conduct.

11.      I believe in the autonomy of the local church in accordance with New Testament teaching.