Port City Young Life

The question has been asked of us a hundred times: by high school kids, by our families, even by an insurance agent as she read over the form that listed our employer. “What exactly is Young Life?” Young Life is a Christian outreach organization aimed at disinterested high school students through evangelical and discipleship ministry, but that’s not usually how we answer the question. Young Life is a ministry, made up mostly of volunteers, that goes into the mission field of the high schools because we believe that every student needs the love of Christ. Scripture tells us about four men who use every means possible to bring their paralyzed friend face to face with Jesus. We believe in meeting kids in their paralyzed state of experimentation, and empty searches for confidence and fulfillment. We meet them on their turf (school lunches, basketball games, soccer practices, etc). We build personal relationships with the kids by earning their trust and getting to know what goes on in their worlds. Through our consistency, attentiveness and compassion, through our words, and through our shared lives, we bring them to Jesus Christ.

If you were to ask a high school student what Young Life is he might answer that our weekly meetings are crazy or that our summer camp is unmatched, but what he would most likely tell you is that his relationship with his Young Life leader revealed a truth that has altered his life. Hopefully, he would tell you that along with movie nights and basketball games, and walks around the Loop, his leader boldly speaks about Jesus and teaches and equips him to walk with Christ. Young Life hopes to be a link between churches and kids who are disinterested in them. We understand that while Young Life is present in high school, church will be around for the rest of their lives. We hope to teach them to pray, to read the bible on their own and enjoy it, and to understand the importance of fellowship. We hope to walk with kids as a vessel used by God through their trying high school years and when those years are over we hope that it will not be us who altered their lives so much but Christ. That is what Young Life is: using every means that we have to bring high school kids face to face with Jesus Christ so that He will transform their lives in a way that lasts not just until they graduate but forever.

We have often been very encouraged by the support and care that has been provided to us through Christ Community Church! Thank you all so much for your prayers.

Young Life
4822 College Acres Drive
Wilmington, NC 28403
(910) 392-5551
http://younglifewilmington.younglife.org

Area Director: Sam Kennedy
Area Staff: Tara Gatliff
Leader Trainer p/t: Liz Carpenter
Administrator p/t: Melissa Pruzan