Who We Are

There are many ways to describe church. The people of God. Two or more gathered in His name. The Bride of Christ. The Body. Yet our ecclesial minimum, and our discipleship approach is worship, mission, and community. We envision our devotion toward God with the color yellow, and we call this worship. We envision our devotion toward people with the color blue, and we call these mission and community. Yellow and blue make green. Loving God and loving people makes disciples.  We measure the health of our families and microchurches and discipleship by whether or not we are living in the green.

It’s vital to get the order right. Worship is first. We are not fully ready to “go blue” until we have first “gone yellow” in relationship with God. But once we have connected to God in worship we cannot help but receive his heart for a lost and suffering world. This leads us into mission. As we engage in mission with the people of God, community is the natural result. It is vital to realize that we do not encounter authentic community by looking for community; it is the result of encountering God and getting on mission – together. It is also curious and beautiful to watch how biblical community causes us to hunger and connect with God.

What We Do

Purpose: to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith through the following methods: praying for youngpeople; 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; and working with a team of like-minded individuals, such as volunteer leaders, committee members, donors and staff.

What We Believe

Statement of Faith

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.