You may never know their names, but their Father in heaven does.

Romans 12:8 (New International Version)
if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

Check to see to see what beds are still available for adoption.   

Prayer For C dorm

Jesus, I'm praying for C Dorm

My precious little C Dorm.

The boys need to know your love,

Please rain on them from above.

Lord, let them feel safe & secure – hold them dear,

Help them to see you are always near.

These guys are protected by the Blood,

Satan, remove your filthy hand,

& return to your burning quicksand.

Lord use YFC in a special way,

Bless each volunteer each and everyday.

I thank you for all the boys in C Dorm!

Father them Lord – one by one –

Let them know no matter what they've done,

They'll always be your son!

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Good news!!!!! 

Your prayers are being answered!!!

At each activity the youth are asked to sign in.  On the sign in sheet there is a section for comments.  Although we cannot tell you the youths name we can tell you there bed # and the comment they had.  When there is a prayer request we will post it here.

As you can see some beds are not adopted yet... and some of these little ones have asked for a chaplain visit and or prayer.

In case you wondered:  When a resident turns 18, they are immediately removed to the County jail.  We are blessed to have Loren as one the members of our chaplain team.  Loren ministers at both JDF and the County so the boys that he meets at JDF he can also visit at the County.  This week Loren met with Jesus, who moved to the County last week.  Jesus is trying to get his life together and gave Loren a message to give to the residents of JDF, “You don't want to come here”.  

These numbers do not represent the number of residents we see each month.  We average about 500 contacts with residents every month and average about 30 chaplain visits per week. 

With some of the proceeds from 10-80 we were able to purchase 5 cases of Bibles for the Detention Facility. There are enough Bibles for each youth.    Thank you so much for your support.  With your help we can make a difference in these young ones lives.

The Bible we purchased titled, My City My God, Contains added extras: an overview of the Bible; historical context; profiles of people from the bible; studies on teen related issues; a dictionary and concordance; the gospel presentation, and  testimonies of teens who have chosen to live their lives for Christ

We were also able to purchase several NOOMA DVD's.

RAIN : Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us. 11 minutes

Luggage : Maybe a friend turned their back on you. Maybe someone you loved betrayed you. We all have wounds and we end up carrying around these things that people have done to us for weeks, months, and sometimes even years. It isn't always easy to forgive these people and after a while these hurts can get really heavy. So the only way to feel better seems to be somehow getting back at the people that hurt us, to get revenge. But does revenge ever truly satisfy? Maybe forgiving isn't something you do for someone else to let them off the hook. Maybe forgiveness is all about you. God didn't create you to carry these wounds around. God created you to be free.

Lump:   A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

Flame: I love these shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment or lust for love, but God wired us in a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it's meant to be felt.

Sunday:  Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away? Because we're supposed to or because we think that God needs it? Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake, or because it'll make us look better to the world around us. We're tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things he really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feelings of duty or obligation. God doesn't want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.

Dust: Believing in God is important, but what about God believing in us? Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People of love, compassion, peace, forgiveness and hope. People who try to do the right thing all of the time. Who act on the endless opportunities around us every day for good, beauty and truth. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or feel like we don't have what it takes. But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some of the radical things that he did, we'd understand the faith that God has in all of us.

Bullhorn:   God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we've got and love others in the same way. But it's not always easy to love everyone around us, is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people's political views, religious beliefs, behaviors, or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we're right and they're very wrong. But Jesus doesn't separate loving God and loving others. So maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it's the only way.