Dr. Dave Rahn is the director of Huntington College’s Link Institute…for faithful & effective youth ministry.  Link Institute is well regarded for the research contributions they have made to help improve the practice of youth ministry.  Dr. Rahn also serves in a national ministry leadership consultant role with YFC.  Some of his insights:

 “A number of our research studies suggest that Christian students tend to see evangelism as a task--or series of tasks--to do, rather than as a natural outgrowth of their relationships with non-Christians.  In fact, by looking closely at the data collected at DC/LA 2000 we’ve begun to understand that when students are aggressive in telling or even inviting behaviors with their non-Christian friends they are LESS likely to take initiative to listen and discover what the needs of those friends might be.  That’s one of the reasons I believe YFC’s Three-Story™ evangelism training is incredibly important for our disciple-making mission today.”

“It's accurate to say that a majority of DC/LA students (from research conducted for each of the last three events in 1994, 1997, and 2000) made commitments to and discovered a plan for how to share the gospel such that their evangelism practices have been increased significantly.”