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Young Life in Parker
Since Young Life began in 1940, its leaders have cared enough to leave the comfort of their adult worlds and enter the arena of high school and middle school life. You will find Young Life leaders sitting in the stands at football games, walking the streets of inner-city neighborhoods, driving carloads of kids to the shopping malls or tutoring students in study centers after school. In fact, you will find them almost anywhere you can find kids. Young Life leaders model trust, respect, and responsibility to their young friends, and they do it within a meaningful context, within the context of a teenager's world.
Young Life provides healthy, creative fun. From weekly clubs to seasonal camping experiences to daily outings with leaders, Young Life is known around the world as the organization that knows how to have fun.
Club typically meets once a week and has been described as an experience in "controlled chaos." Leaders combine songs, humor and group interaction to create an hour of energetic fun where kids can express that teenage tendency to push the limits - but within the controlled context of a safe environment.
"Young Life" is the name of our organization and it's also what we call our outreach to high school aged kids. We have named our middle school and junior high ministry "Wyldlife" to differentiate between the two age groups and their varying developmental stages and maturity levels. Both ministries stay true to the time-tested practices we've been using for more than 60 years: going where kids are, loving them unconditionally, earning the right to be heard and communicating God's love in terms kids can understand.
Young Life in Parker / Franktown
Young Life began in Parker in 1997 with a club at Ponderosa High School. In 2000 we began club at Chaparral High School. And in Sept of 2000 we began “Wyldlife” club for middle schoolers from Sierra and Sagewood Middle Schools. With each addition, we’ve added approximately 100-200 newstudents to our ministry. We started with 3 leaders and have grown to 13. Each week we have between 60—200 kids total attending our clubs. On top of that we have approximately 20-30 kids attending our campaigner studies and seeker groups weekly. We have an advisory committee of 14 adults from the community meeting monthly for prayer and planning. Smaller groups of folks meet bi-weekly to prayer for students in the schools in which we work. We are also working very closely with many local churches in order to assure the long term care of students whom we have met, developed relationships with, and been blessed to have watched come to know a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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