Christian Youth Center Ministries
The Christian Youth Center is a religious, not for profit family oriented organization, located on 20+ acres of land in Joliet, IL, whose purpose is to assist kids, students, and their families to come to know Christ and grow in their walk with Him. This is done through a weekly junior high and high school program, monthly kids' programming, a year round youth sports programs, a day camp in the summer, and specials events throughout the year for students and families and senior adults as well.
Mission- Under the authority of God and His Word and in commitment to Christ and His Church..."to develop and implement attractive programs for the family that present the Gospel while lmeeting needs and encouraging life transformation."
Vision Statement-To be a place where lives are transformed by the power of the Gospel. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
II Corinthians 5:17
Statement of Faith
We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testament as verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writings and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and on His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that, because of the fall, all human beings are born with a sinful nature, have lost their communion with God and are under His wrath and curse.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture as a substitutionary sacrifice and that all who personally put their faith in Christ as their substitute are justified on the ground of His shed blood, thereby becoming children of God.
We believe in the Present Ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the child of God is enabled to live a godly life.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Christ.
Adopted September, 1957
