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About

Dare 2 Share Ministries

Greg Stier training youth pastors and leaders to mobilize youth with the Gospel

We believe in the power of the Gospel and the potential of teenagers

Dare 2 Share is energizing a movement of Gospel Advancing leaders globally with training tools and resources that activate students to become lifelong disciple multipliers, sharing their faith with their friends, family, and their world.

Our Mission

Energizing the Church to mobilize youth to Gospelize their world.

We equip churches to inspire and mobilize their youth to become bold disciple-makers.

Through our free, practical tools and training, youth ministry leaders empower students to share Jesus confidently, igniting a movement that transforms their schools, communities, and beyond.

Our Vision

Every teen, everywhere, hearing the Gospel from a friend.

We want to see a world where every teen has the chance to hear the Gospel from a friend.

By equipping and empowering students for sharing the Gospel, we fuel a movement where the message of Jesus spreads through peer-to-peer relational evangelism, transforming lives and communities everywhere.

Our Strategy

Recruit, equip, and mobilize Gospel Advancing leaders to share the Gospel personally and mobilize teens to do the same.

Our strategy is to find and empower passionate youth leaders to spread the Gospel and train their students to do the same.

Through free practical resources and a Gospel Advancing framework, we equip leaders to model and teach relational evangelism, creating a ripple effect where teens are mobilized to reach their peers, sparking a Gospel sharing movement in their schools and, ultimately, their communities.

Partnering with leaders to reach every teen, everywhere with the hope of Jesus.

Partners

This vision is too big and too important to accomplish alone. Dare 2 Share partners with like-minded ministries across the globe to help us train teens and youth leaders to share their faith. If we’re going to reach the world’s 1 billion teenagers, it’s going to take all of us making and multiplying disciples.

Here are the partners who share our heart for teenagers to know Jesus.

Our Impact

Last year, Dare 2 Share engaged 634,603 leaders and students in 224 countries with training and resources so that teens everywhere can hear the Gospel. Read our annual report here.

Join us in reaching a generation for Christ through a generation of faith-sharing youth.

What youth pastors are saying

LukeLeader in Washington, USA
No ministry has had a bigger impact on me, on our students, on our networking relationships than Dare 2 Share has, and I am really grateful for that.
Kyembe Leader in Zambia
Dare 2 Share has helped me to understand God fully. Their sessions on one vision, seven strategies, and five truths have really opened up my mind about God and the Gospel. I have also learned that creating a good relationship before preaching to them is very important.
BrandonLeader in Missouri, USA
Dare 2 Share impacted our ministry by giving us the tools to train and equip our students. It has also helped set the pace on how/what we program throughout the year in our youth ministry. It has also helped our leaders in our ministry to grab ahold of our bold vision through Gospel Advancing.

Every youth group is different but the mission shouldn't be.

When your teens take ownership of their faith and share the Gospel with their peers, you’ll witness God working in your youth ministry in unimaginable ways! No matter what your youth group looks like, Dare 2 Share’s resources can help spark a Gospel Advancing movement in your community.

How we work

Events

Dare 2 Share events spark lasting life change by challenging students to step into their faith and experience God at work—while equipping youth leaders to guide them in their discipleship journey.

Resources

Dare 2 Share’s free youth ministry resources help leaders prioritize evangelism, equipping students to grow in their faith and expand their Gospel influence—starting right in youth group.

How we started

In 1991, a young pastor named Greg Stier had a vision to train teens to share the Gospel. When tragedy struck with the Columbine High School shooting, that vision became an urgent rescue mission to reach every teenager with the love of Jesus.

Our History

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Dare 2 Share Ministries is co-founded by Greg Stier and Jonathan Smith with the mission to train teens to share the Gospel.

Our first evangelism training conferences for students are held. Over the next 25 years, conferences grow in scale to include national tours of 11 cities and 50,000 teens trained in a single year

Debbie Bresina, a current Executive at Dare 2 Share, joins the ministry first as a volunteer and then as the first full time employee.

The Columbine High School shooting happens on April 20th, just minutes from Dare 2 Share’s offices. The tragedy, that left 15 dead, prompts Greg Stier to resign from a local pastoral position and lead D2S full time

Lead THE Cause launches as a full-week summer training for students and leaders to cultivate and spread a Gospel movement.

Following an in-depth research study, Greg Stier publishes Gospelize Your Youth Ministry, setting the stage for the Gospel Advancing movement to transform youth ministries around the country. Debbie Bresina also becomes the President of Dare 2 Share.

The Dare 2 Share mission statement is revised to make way for global impact, “Energizing the Church to Mobilize youth to Gospelize their world!”

The ministry transitions from in-person conferences to Dare 2 Share LIVE, a one-day simulcast event that brings teen evangelism training to locations across the globe.

The Life in 6 Words app is relaunched with Gospel-sharing tools and features that paved the way for the app and G.O.S.P.E.L. acrostic to be translated and contextualized in 25+ of the world’s top languages.

Lead THE Cause Virtual provides evangelism and disciple-multiplication training to students across the U.S. from their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dare 2 Share hosts the first Gospel Advancing Summit in Golden, Colorado, with leaders who will multiply the movement in their own communities and around the world.

Jason Lamb becomes the President of Dare 2 Share and Debbie Bresina transitions into a new role as the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Dare 2 Share collaborates with youth leaders worldwide by providing free, adaptable virtual events, conductible event materials, and contextually relevant resources. Dare 2 Share also partners with global organizations and supports and coaches ministry multipliers and leaders in diverse regions around the world. Dare 2 Share has 34,000+ Gospel Advancing leaders worldwide.

Dare 2 Share impacts youth ministries around the world through offering free scalable events and resources.

You can read all about what Dare 2 Share did this past year on the 2024 impact page.

Our mission is energizing the Church to mobilize youth to Gospelize their world. Our vision is every teen, everywhere, hearing the Gospel form a friend.

You can learn the basics of the Dare 2 Share story here and more details of the major transitions through the years if you scroll down on this page.

The board of directors, annual reports, financial statements, and form 990s are all found here. Job opportunities are regularly updated and found at this location.

Our History

In 1991, a young pastor named Greg Stier had a vision to see teens sharing their faith and reaching their world for Christ. From this vision, Dare 2 Share Ministries (D2S) was born.
 
In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting happened in Littleton, CO, mere minutes from the Dare 2 Share headquarters. This monumental tragedy brought the nation to its knees and triggered a turning point in Greg’s career. Following those events, he resigned from a pastorate at a church in Arvada, Colorado to pursue his role at D2S full-time. 
 
Since then, Greg and the ministry of D2S have impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of teens across the country, motivating and equipping them to relationally reach those who don’t know Jesus with the Gospel message.
 
Today, Dare 2 Share is making a global impact for God’s kingdom through powerful events that equip teenagers to reach their world with the Gospel. In addition to teen evangelism training events, Dare 2 Share is leading a movement of Gospel Advancing leaders from all over the world, equipping them with tools to advance the Gospel in their ministries.
 
Our vision is a God-sized goal, and we know it is not possible by ourselves. We have only been able to continue training and equipping because of the Kingdom-hearted generosity of our amazing partners and donors. Without them, we would not be here fighting for the souls of our students. We need those who are passionate about youth knowing and sharing Christ. If the salvation of teens around the world are on your heart, we ask you prayerfully consider partnering with us as a donor until our vision of every teen, everywhere, hearing the Gospel from a friend is not a vision but a reality.