Who is Audience of One (Ao1)?
Ao1 (Audience of One) is a youth discipleship program incorporating discipleship and performing arts. Our goal is to give young people an atmosphere where they are challenged to grow in their relationship with the Lord. This includes teaching on the character of God, performing arts, and small group time for application, reflection, and prayer. The young people minister the gospel through Contemporary Christian music, sign language, creative movement, and testimonies of what the Lord has done in their lives. We minister in schools, churches, prisons, malls, street corners, parks, hospitals, and any place where people gather.
We have chosen the name “Audience of One” because our primary objective is to bless God’s heart. Our worship, our dance, our devotion is to be to Him, first and foremost. He is the audience we should seek to please.
Our typical outreach team is led by David and Kathleen Tabor and Geoff and Megan Ila, who have led teams to Kenya, Australia, London, Italy, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and many other places. We have also taken teams within the U.S. We have outreached to the East Coast, the West Coast, Salt Lake City Olympics, Colorado Springs, CO, and Nashville, TN. We recognize that along with ministering to the nations it is imperative that we pray for and minister within our own nation.
Preparations and fundraising for each outreach begin at least six months before the team leaves. As our team is established we begin to meet and pray for each member, their time there, finances, logistics, and what’s on God’ s heart to accomplish wherever we are going. This is also the time where our team begins to build unity. We believe that unity is essential for every team. God’s Word says, “Where brethren dwell together in unity…there the Lord will command the blessing” (Psalm 133). We need God’s blessing and anointing before we can minister to others.
The Outreaches
Outreach consists of two weeks of “Boot Camp” followed by two weeks of “Outreach”. During Boot Camp the students are taught foundational Biblical truths and how to personally apply them to their lives. They are encouraged to spend extra time seeking God and learning more of His character, so that “As we behold Him we become more like Him” (2 Cor. 3:18). The students are also taught a full program, which usually consists of dances, drama, worship, and testimonies. Our performing arts program gives the team a platform to go into the community and share with others what God has been teaching them. “We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony” (Rev. 12:11).
Outreaches are chock-full of lots of fun. The students and families get an excellent opportunity to experience different nations, different cultures, foods, customs, etc. Our team members always come back with a broader perspective of God’s love for the nations and His heart for all people.
Our International teams usually consist of 30 – 50 members, although we’ve had as many as 80. As God calls Himself “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”, we have seen God do wonderful things through a 3-generational team working together and ministering His heart to one another and to others. We encourage families, grandparents, and anyone 12 years and older to apply. Our performing team mainly consists of team members aged 12 – 21. Older team members usually help with the teaching, intercession, work projects, small groups, discipling, and logistics.
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Audience of One
Both families and individuals add to the dynamic of outreaches. Download one of the application forms or contact us for more info.
Info Posts:
Friday June 26th, Saturday June 27th & Sunday June 28th
Please accept my humblest apologies for not keeping the blog up over the weekend. So I will summarize our last three days in this update. Friday was another good day. Since living together for almost a week we are definitely learning more and more about each other....
Thursday, June 25th
Parent’s once again thank you for releasing your young people to us for this outreach. This team is blowing us away as staff with their attitude of openness and allowing God to have His way in their lives. There is a hungering and thirsting after Jesus that is...
Wednesday, June 24th
We had another God filled worship time this morning. God challenged the young people to step up and out of their comfort zone. He revealed that this generation of young people has been and is being assaulted by the enemy more than any other generation before it. In...
Tuesday June 23rd
After breakfast David and Kathleen headed to the airport in Brisbane to pick up Pam Spencer a very good friend of theirs, who lived in PNG when the Tabors were there. God initiated a very powerful, strategic worship time. We spent over an hour battling for the nation...
Monday, June 22nd
Today was another early day as we are officially on our Bootcamp schedule. Our days here in Australia will go according to this schedule from here on out: 7:00am Breakfast 7:30am-8:30am GOD Time 8:30am-10:15am Worship/ Teaching 10:15am-10:30am Break 10:30am-12:00pm...
Sunday, June 21st
We were up bright and early in the morning with the boys deciding on a 6am morning run. David started a fire in the fireplace which kept us all huddled together. It is a little nippy here especially at night but the days are perfect. Adjusting to the weather hasn’t...
Friday June 19th/ Saturday June 20th
G’DAY FROM AUSTRALIA!!! So Friday was spent in the air with the team split on two separate flights as you know. The team on Qantas and the Ila’s and Shannon Rediger on United. We arrived bright and early in two separate locations on Saturday morning. Both flights...
Thursday June 18th
This morning seemed a little slow with most of the team letting the realization of being on outreach sink in a little more. For the early risers taking advantage of the continental breakfast was a good thing. For those not so early risers, well I’ll stop right there....
And We’re Off!
The 2015 Ao1 PNG outreach is officially underway... There certainly were mixed emotions as the team from Montrose gathered and embarked on their journey to Denver yesterday. We had the privilege of Curtis Allen praying for and commissioning the team before we left....
Adam Rocks
He is a great bloke!!!