Ministries
YFC accomplishes it's mission with these local ministry programs.
Juvenile Justice Ministries:
What is Youth for Christ’s Juvenile Justice Ministry (JJM)?
Topeka YFC works primarily with teens at the Shawnee County Juvenile Detention Center (SNJDC), and the Kansas Juvenile Corrections Center (KJCC) in north Topeka.Our strategy is to help young people develop a way of living taught by Jesus Christ; balancing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of life. We seek to build valued relationships that are sustained through ongoing involvement as they re-enter their communities.
Why JJM?
On any given day in the US there are over 500,000 teens actively incarcerated in local detention centers. The sad fact is that, for many of these young people, the detention center is the only place they feel safe, have reliable meals, are sober, or are not facing constant verbal abuse. It is also a place of deep despair for many, and a place where they have the time to think about their lives with a clear mind and an open heart. It is during this time that they are most open to hearing the transformational message of Jesus. YFC’s JJM gives believers around the country effective tools to pursue the thousands of young people experiencing the challenges of incarceration, abandonment, addictions, and abuse in institutions and programs all over the United States.
How does JJM impact our youth?
Every kid is wired for relationship. Whether they are outgoing and loud or quiet and reserved, they want deep relationships with people who care about them. We believe this is a God-given desire, true of every kid, and we want to be those caring individuals who engage them in relationship. Every program, every interaction, is designed to build a relationship and to start conversation. Through those conversations we earn the right to speak into the lives of the youth we meet with the hope and saving grace of Jesus Christ.
To learn more about how you can be involved with the YFC Juvenile Justice Ministry in Topeka, please call our office at 785-232-8296.
YFC Core:
YFC Core is about encouraging each other to follow Christ in a way that naturally invites friends to follow Jesus with us. That means simple steps of faith obedient to Jesus’ command to love as He loves and be ready to share the Good News when the Holy Spirit prompts us.
YFC Core® is an effective way to mobilize students and adults to reach every teenager at a high school or middle school. We each have a limited sphere of influence in our lives for deep 3Story® relationships. YFC Core® provides an ideal platform for those adults with a heart, skill and gifts of mobilizing and discipling others into fruitful ministry. Some schools are closed to Youth for Christ adult staff. No school is closed to students. Students have existing relationships with their lost peers. YFC Core equips them to make the most of what God is already doing in those relationships.
YFC Core® is teams of Christian students with adult coaches who together, actively love in a way that naturally invites friends to follow Christ with them. YFC Core® is about relational evangelism and is committed to living and coaching 3Story®. Teams of students meet weekly with adult coaches to Share, Pray and Discover how God is challenging them to take risks and invite their lost friends to naturally follow Jesus with them.
YFC Core Teams practice SHARE – PRAY – DISCOVER (SPD) weekly. - SHAREing stories with one another - PRAYing together - DISCOVERING from God simple ways to faithfully love our friends.
To learn more about how you can become involved with YFC Core Ministry in Topeka, call our office at 785-232-8296.
YFC City Life:
YFC City Life combines healthy relationships with creative programs to help young people have a positive influence on their world. It is a place for teens to have fun and make friends while also providing them with the skills and hope they need to live in a turbulent world.
YFC Camp:
YFC Camp offers teens an environment that invites God to transform their lives through shared experiences, outdoor challenges, and times of solitude that draw students to the heart of God, all within the context of authentic relationships and memorable learning experiences.
Camp includes food, lodging, transportation, rappelling and on site recreational activities such as horseback riding, swimming, b-ball, v-ball and low and high ropes challenge. Whitewater rafting is available at an additional charge.
Camp is open to all students who have just completed grades 8 through 12. Registrations are accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
To learn more about YFC Camp, or to learn how you can be involved, contact our office at 785-232-8296.