Young Life Altanta
The Five C's of Young Life:
Christ- Young Life is a Christ centered Non-Denominational Ministry to Adolescents. Jesus is our Lord and model in ministry. Everything that we do has Jesus Christ at the center.
Contact- We earn the right to be heard by going where kids are and investing in their lives.
Club- Often described as organized chaos. Club is where kids are guaranteed to have a fun time where they can be real with their friends and hear the truth about Jesus
Camp- Young Life has over 20 properties all over the United States and Canada where kids are assured to spend the best week or weekend of their lives.
Campaigners- This is our small group Bible study. At Campaigners kids can get deeper into scripture, ask the tough questions and begin to develop their leadership muscles. Why the name campaigners? Originally, Young Life was called the Young Life Campaign and we wanted to let kids know that they were important? that they were leaders in the mission of Young Life. Campaigners often go on to become volunteer Young Life leaders, Sunday school teachers, pastors and active members of local church bodies.
Our Vision
Every adolescent will have the opportunity to meet Jesus Christ and follow Him.
Our Mission
Introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith. We accomplish our mission by ...
* Praying for young people.
* Going where kids are.
* Building personal relationships with them.
* Winning the right to be heard.
* Providing experiences that are fun, adventurous and life-changing.
* Sharing our lives and the Good News of Jesus Christ with adolescents.
* Inviting them to personally respond to this Good News.
* Loving them regardless of their response.
* Nurturing kids so they might grow in their love for Christ and the knowledge of God's Word and become people who can share their faith with others.
* Helping young people develop the skills, assets and attitudes to reach their full God-given potential.
* Encouraging kids to live connected to the Body of Christ by being an active member of a local congregation.
* Working with a team of like-minded individuals -- volunteer leaders, committee members, donors and staff.
Our Values
* Living according to and communicating the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ.
* Carrying out our mission under the authority of Scripture and relying on the Holy Spirit to empower our ministry.
* Encouraging the welfare and spiritual health of those who do this ministry, that they may minister out of a consistent and growing relationship with Christ and His followers.
* Researching and developing innovative approaches to reaching uncommitted, disinterested kids around the world.
* Reaching adolescents of all social, cultural, economic and ethnic backgrounds throughout the world.
* Working with followers of Christ from a variety of traditions and local churches around the world.
* Welcoming all those whom God calls to our mission -- men and women of all races, staff and volunteers -- who are linked to a common purpose of introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ.
* Observing the highest standards of stewardship of all the resources placed in our trust.
Young Life?s Statement of Faith*
Preamble
We the members of the Young Life mission ? trustees, staff, instructors at Young Life schools and volunteers ? join together in our affirmation of the following articles and our central purpose of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and introducing adolescents everywhere to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith.
Article I
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, being given by divine inspiration, are the Word of God, the final and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
Article II
In the Scriptures, God reveals Himself as the living and true God, Creator of all things. Perfect in love and righteous in all His ways, this one God exists eternally as a Trinity of persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Article III
God made man and woman in His image that He might have fellowship with us. Being estranged from God by our disobedience, we are, as sinful people, incapable of a right relationship to God apart from divine grace.
Article IV
The only Mediator between God and all human beings is Jesus Christ our Lord, God?s eternal Son, who as man fully shared and fulfilled our humanity in a life of perfect obedience.
Article V
By His death in our place, Jesus revealed the divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. Having risen bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven, He rules as Lord over all and intercedes for us as our Great High Priest.
Article VI
The Holy Spirit, through the proclamation of the Gospel, renews our hearts, persuading us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit we are led to trust in divine mercy, whereby we are forgiven all our sins, justified by faith through the merit of Christ our Savior, adopted into God?s family as His children and enabled so to live in the world that all people may see our good works and the Gospel of grace at work in our lives and glorify our Father who is in heaven.
Article VII
God, by His Word and Spirit, calls us as sinful people into the fellowship of Christ?s body. Thus He creates the one holy, catholic and apostolic church, united in the bonds of love, endowed with the gifts of the Spirit and summoned by Christ to preach the Gospel and to administer the sacraments, to carry on the ministry of reconciliation, to relieve human need and to strive for social justice.
Article VIII
God?s redemptive purpose will be consummated by the return of Christ to raise the dead, judge all people and establish His glorious kingdom. Those who are apart from Christ shall be eternally separated from God?s presence, but the redeemed shall live and reign with Him forever.
* From Young Life Bylaws, Article IX
