The purpose of Royal Ambassadors is to involve boys in missions. Involvement in missions is living one’s faith daily: personal experience in witness and ministry, and giving and praying to support persons involved in missions.
The Royal Ambassador program helps boys to become aware of the needs of people around the world and to respond to those needs.
The organization seeks to lead boys to a personal commitment to Christ and assist them in their Christian growth experience. Through Royal Ambassadors, boys are led to an awareness of their responsibility to Christ and encouraged to become His ambassador.
This purpose is outlined in the Royal Ambassador Pledge.
As a Royal Ambassador I will do my best:
To have a Christlike concern for all people
To learn how to carry the message of Christ around the world
WHY THE NAME ROYAL AMBASSADORS?
The RA Motto, “We are Ambassadors for Christ,” not only gives the organization its name, but also gives the boys and leaders a lifestyle goal. This Motto is taken from Scripture, specifically 2 Corinthians 5:20.
The Scripture passage 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 describes the purpose of Royal Ambassadors. While the RA motto is found in verse 20, the other verses sum up Paul’s declaration of why we need to be ambassadors for Christ.
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Now everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ’s behalf, ‘Be reconciled to God.'”
(2 Corinthians. 5:17-20, HCSB)