Introduction to Hope For Youth

Core Values

  Honor and value children and their families
  Honor christ in all we do
  Faithfully honor our commitment to the kids
  Demonstrate and build character and integrity

Commitment

One child, once a week, for one year

History

Hope for Youth (H4Y) is a group established to mentor at-risk youth to help them reach their God-given potential. We have received training from the Christian Association of Youth Mentoring (CAYM), which teaches best practices to create a safe, effective, and sustainable mentoring program. Youth are connected with adult role models as mentors. Our founder was involved in a similar ministry in a different state. She has found that people in this community want to help and are excited about what we can do in serving those in our community who are at-risk, oppressed, or downtrodden. This follows the words of Jesus, who said, “In as much as you did it unto one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me” (Matt. 25:40). 

Why Mentor?

Crisis of Fatherlessness
        Over 40% of American youth are born to single moms
        Divorce rate is high inside and outside the church

Biblical Call to Mentor
        A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling (Psalms 68:5)

Helper
         But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless (Psalms 10:14)