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This blog is updated with our "Main Newsletter" that mail out each month.  We hope you are gripped and inspired by the stories of the youth that we work with.  It is our passion to see them come to know Jesus!

Mentor A Teen; Create Hope

Posted on by Joel Williamson

By Whitney Kregar, Mentor and Volunteer Director

“This is a lot to handle as a fifteen year old.”
“I’m only fourteen, my mom is in jail and I have to talk to her parole officer for her!”
“My Dad just quit his job.  I don’t know what we are going to do.”

 Every week as I meet with…

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Staying Strong

Posted on by Joel Williamson

“I am going through some tough stuff right now, starting to lose God and doing things I am really beginning to regret…”

For years this young man was a self-proclaimed atheist.  I think he wanted to believe in God, but couldn’t make enough sense of Christianity.  His home life is rough.  He…

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Falling Down

Posted on by Joel Williamson

I found out that “Thomas” was in the hospital and that it was life threatening. 

I was nauseous and panicked as I tried to get a hold of him or his family.  When no one answered, I called one of his friends.  While I can’t explain the details, the essence of what happened is that Thomas made a…

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She was Terrified.

Posted on by Joel Williamson

“Jesse,” approached her camp leader clearly frightened.  She had been alone in a bathroom, when she heard and saw something supernatural.  Something she perceived as evil.

This apparently wasn’t the first time.  She shared that she had been hearing and seeing things for the last six months.  …

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Time for Camp!

Posted on by Joel Williamson

“You don’t know me anymore.  I am different.  I am a new person.” 

I remember when the 12 year old girl came to the front of the chapel and declared that she wasn’t going to drink, smoke, or do drugs anymore.  I can also picture one young man’s expression of relief after he confessed his secret…

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