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What Articles Say About Youth For Christ

The Youth for Christ organization members provide assistance to their communities. In September 2006, The Watseka Times Republic reported that the Youth for Christ opened a new place called the Breakaway Center, in Iroquois Valley, IN. At the center they would provide games, food and activities, but their main focus is to provide mentoring and tutoring. The Times Tribune reported that through the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Youth for Christ, two sisters from Scranton, PA took a trip to Africa and stayed 16 days in the summer of 2006. They helped build a two story building, stated constructing the floor of a well to collect rain water and they went from hut-to-hut in a village to show the movie Passion of the Christ while a native translated.

After being organized for 20 years, the Mississippi Gulf Youth for Christ worked in 19 schools and three detention centers in Jackson, Hancock and Harrison counties. Youth for Christ opened a youth center in Ocean Spring, MS, so that kids who wouldn’t normally go to church could go on Saturday evenings and skateboard, play pool, hang out with their friends and learn about Jesus Christ. The Herald Net in Everett, WA reported that the Youth for Christ got together more than 500 teens and adults, on October 20, 2007 to work over 52 service projects. The event was called City Service. This group was a collaboration of local churches, organized by Brian Muchmore. Some of the projects involved helping the elderly and the disabled who could not clean or take care of their homes. The rewarding part of this project seeing the young people giving back to their communities and this also helped build bridges between their local churches.

The Globe Gazette reported that the Youth for Christ set out on a 10 day mission trip to Mexico. This group of teens from Manson City, IA consisted of 38 women and 21 men. They volunteered to lead Vacation Bible School to 150 kids and helped with the construction on three Protestant churches.

The Morrison County Record said the Central Minnesota Youth for Christ organized a group of women together to start a project called “Teen Parent”. In this program they help teen mothers by meeting with them weekly throughout the whole school year, at the Continuing Education Center, which is located at the St. Francis Campus in Little Falls, Minnesota. Through this program the teen mothers can earn their high school diplomas in a more comfortable environment. The Youth for Christ group raised their own funds for the program, which includes prenatal and parenting skills, baby items needed for childcare, mentoring program and networking activities. This group effort benefitted the students and their children as well as the Continuing Education Center. Although there aren’t any classes during the summer the mentors still make themselves available and the girls have the phone numbers to make contact if necessary. Much of the fundraising for this cause is done in the summer, during their down time from the regular school schedule.

The Columbus Telegram reported that the Youth for Christ provided an afterschool program at Columbus Middle School in Columbus, NE. The program offer student’s 6-8 grades, the opportunity to learn cooking, fishing and taekwondo. They figured that most kids would be targeted for mischief between the hours of 3-6pm, so the afterschool program was definitely a positive way to keep the kids safe while they continued to learn and have fun at the same time. This is something that’s needed in every community because it would help build character and responsibility into the children as well as show them the love of Jesus Christ.

The Examiner reports the Youth for Christ held a Fusion Youth Conference, in March 2007. This conference was held to target teens that may deal with suicidal thoughts, drugs loneliness or anger. The Youth for Christ wanted to provide the teen with the tools to help them grow spiritually and be able to cope with the problems they may face at home or school. This event took place in Ocean Spring, MN and the event bought in over 1,000 teens from the surrounding counties. Their main focus is spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Examiner also reported on the Baltimore, Maryland region of Youth for Christ. This group of youths collected food, supplies and furniture to help the residents of the Dominican Republic. A hurricane hit the small island and destroyed everything that the people owned. The youth group also donated clothing and rice, which was one of the main item lost in the storm. Now the Youth for Christ take trips to Pimentel, every year to volunteer providing medical clinics, helping a school and digging wells.