- Well think about this.

If your church disappeared,

would the young people inyour community even notice?

Maybe not and that's just one reason

Ron Luce is going global with an outreach

to 1.8 billion young people.

Take a look.

- [Narrator] Ron Luce hasreached millions of teenagers

with the message of Christ,

but that's getting harder to do

with the decline of biblicalvalues in our culture.

In order to combat this problem,

Ron is bringing together youth leaders

from across the world forJesus Global Youth Day

in Manila, Philippines.

It will be the world'slargest global summit

with youth leaders coming together

to share what's workingin reaching young people

and how they can passthose strategies down

to the next generation.

- Please welcome back toThe 700 Club Ron Luce.

Ron, so great to see you.

How you doing?- Thank you, Wendy.

Great to be here.

- Ron, what's the urgency now

to reach young people for Jesus?

- We have something now, I think,

that's never happened before,

and that is what we callthe graying of the church,

both in America, in Europe and really,

almost every place around the world

that's been Christianized,

the church is getting older and older

and pastors and leadersare very frustrated.

They know that Western media and culture

has infected their young generation

and they don't know how to reach them

and there's a bit of hopelessness.

And they know that young people,

even the ones whoseparents go to the church,

the young people aren't coming

and they don't know what to do.

And so Jesus Global YouthDay is an opportunity

for leaders to comewith their young people.

Not just youth leaders, butsenior pastors are coming,

bishops are coming, leadersof denominations are coming

to both come together asa celebration festival,

but also the leaders arecoming to learn best practices

from other leaders around the world

because there are somethat are really doing well

at reaching and discipling.

It's not like let's reinvent the wheel

or splitting the atom,has it ever been done.

No, there are some that really know how,

even in the midst of thebarrage that's happening.

I just want to offer, thiswhole event is to offer hope

to leaders and toparents that we can reach

and disciple the young generation.

- So, it's in the Philippines

- Correct.- in August.

What will happen at this event?

- So we've got nationsplanning already to come.

There's 1.8 billion youth in the world.

We want to reach as manyas we can, obviously,

not that many at this event,

but many will come from these nations

and you can either come inperson with your youth group

as a pastor a leader, oryou can host a watch party

in your church.

We already have about83,000 churches signed up

around the world on the final day

to fill their churches with young people

and host that final night, the 10th,

at seven o'clock theirlocal time in their church.

So people can either come toManila for the event in person

or they can sign up to be a host church

in their local community andstart reaching the young people

right now in your local community

via Jesus Global Youth Day.

- The Christians in thePhilippines and in Manila

are so awesome and on fire,

so they're gonna be a greathost country for this.

Tell us about the music video contest

that's related to this event.

- Well we're releasingtoday the theme song

for the event and the theme video,

and you'll get to see aglimpse of it here in a moment,

and we're inviting people tobe a part of a 10,000 voice,

virtual youth choir, you can get online

and find out how to dothat, to this very song.

You'll get the lyrics andyou'll get the soundtrack

and you can have your youthgroup, your church group

sing it and post it andbe a part of something

that's never been done before,this virtual youth choir.

- All right, Ron, let's takea look at the type of video

you're asking youth groups to submit.

Roll the tape.

♪ Only Jesus our rock within this age ♪

♪ I hope it never changes ♪

♪ Your name be exalted forever ♪

♪ Jesus we join with heavens praise ♪

♪ A thousand generations ♪

♪ We pray in you hallelujah ♪

♪ Oh oh ♪

♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪

- Awesome and so thosewill be seen at the event?

- Well so youth groupscan submit their own

youth group singing thesong and post it online

and then we will, we'llaggregate all of that

into a whole new soundtrackwith all these 10,000 voices.

- Alright, Ron how canpeople get involved,

August we still have some time to plan,

so how can people inchurches and youth groups

get involved?- Well now's the time

if you hit either CBN.com or our website,

justjesusglobalyouthday.com and you

can just click, get more information

if you wanna watch, host a watch party,

or if you wanna come in person,

all the details are there.

Right now's the time to go today,

so you can get all the information

on how to sign up for any ofthe things we talked about.

- Well Ron we just, oh I'veknown you now for 20 years.

You have always had aheart for the young people

and you're still going strong.

Thank you for this commitmentbecause they are the future

and we really wanna get behind this

Jesus Global MovementDay, so thank you so much.

Jesus Global Youth Day will take place

in Manila Philippines onAugust eight through 10th,

for more information onhow you can take part,

or how you can submit a music video

of your youth group,just log on to CBN.com

and you can also hear more from Ron

on our Facebook page.

Just go to Facebook.com/700club

and be sure to share it withyour friends and family.