Holiday Missions Partner Highlight: Save Our Youth
As followers of Jesus, we are called to love our neighbor through the joys of life and through its pains. We are called to be there in times of righteousness and in times of injustice. During this holiday season, we’re inviting our community to engage with and care for our neighbors by actively participating anew with one of our Mission Partners. We will share about several of these partners in our weekly email over the upcoming month, including specific ways to serve.
Save Our Youth
Mission and Action:
Save our Youth provides one-to-one mentorship as a pathway to help young people overcome adverse experiences and learn to embrace hope: the belief that they can have something better than they have now and that they have a role to play in making it better. Save Our Youth is currently celebrating 30 years of connecting youth to hope!
Who is Served?
Save Our Youth most commonly serves young people ages 10–7.Why Is This Work Important
Frederick Douglass once said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” When young people are led and encouraged to pursue their dreams, there is a higher probability that they will achieve those dreams, no matter what background they first came from.
How Can You Serve?
Fill-the-Box:
This holiday season, you can show love and care by helping Save Our Youth provide Christmas gifts to local trade school and college freshmen. This Sunday, December 8, grab a box from under the tree in the Gallery at the Park Church building, fill it with items from the provided list (some items are fun, some simply necessary), and return it to the tree in the Gallery on the following Sunday, December 15.
When the season is over, the ongoing work of Save Our Youth continues. In prayer, we encourage you to also consider what it could look like for you to become a mentor for an at-risk student through Save Our Youth. Learn more about their mentorship program—and the many students who are waiting for a mentor—at saveouryouth.org.
How Can You Give?
To give to the mission, visit Save Our Youth’s giving page.
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