The wait is over. The two winning videos in the ymiLIVE Video Challenge were announced today during the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s 219th General Assembly in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Presbyterian Foundation will establish a $25,000 endowment fund at each of the Presbyterian churches represented by these youth groups to provide on-going, financial support for their youth ministry programs.
The two finalists were from the following churches:
The video challenge encouraged Presbyterian youth groups to creatively express their interpretation of John 7:38: "Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers …
In 2008, the youth group at Central Presbyterian Church in LaFayette, Ind. was very excited to enter the ymiLIVE Video Challenge to give its interpretation of Micah 6:8, the theme of that year’s 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Their video was chosen as one of the three finalists in the Video Challenge. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation established an endowment fund for the benefit of Central’s youth ministries, which they named the Micah 6:8 Fund.
But the story only begins here.
The next challenge was to determine the best way to spend the distribution from the …