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Changing the Odds in your Community
Geoffrey Canada describes his personal success story as “against the odds.” Many of his childhood friends are dead or in jail, and others have battled lifelong addictions and chronic unemployment. Like him, most grew up fatherless and poor. By the mid-1990’s, Canada had personally overcome the odds that still conspire against millions of inner city…
Read MoreMotivational Monday: Take Your Youth to the Ball Game!
RELOAD Lab ATL Where Training Meets Fun for you & Your Youth We want to encourage you to mix a little play into your curriculum. Here’s a great way to do so: RELOAD Lab ATL training for youth and youth workers (includes Braves game tickets). Topic: Nothing progresses without change – science, technology, education, even…
Read MoreReproducing Reproducers
There is an old saying that goes, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” What this simply means is that when you are so deeply engrossed in something, so completely lost within the trees, it is impossible to get a clear view of the bigger picture. Simply put – you miss what is going…
Read MoreEight Full-Funding Essentials (Because Who’s Not Tired of Being Broke)
“God’s work done God’s way will not lack supply.” – Dr. A. R. Bernard I confess. I struggle with believing this. Not the overarching idea of it. I believe in Jehovah Jireh after all, the God who provides. I preach from the same Bible prosperity preachers espouse, and encourage myself in Jesus’ assurance that our…
Read MoreMotivational Monday: Jesus in Hollywood
Interested in Film & Media? Dan White Hodge, an industry veteran of more than 20 years, shares unconventional perspectives on Film, Hip Hop, and Theology. Lookout for him as one of our national conference speakers at 360 Nashville Today’s Motivational Monday gives you a peak at some of Dan’s previous works.
Read MoreGrace Still Abounds When They Grow Up
This past Christmas, UYWI.org featured the story of Jose “Cochise” Quiles, the founder and president of the New York City street gang Satan’s Sinners Nomads. Two thousand years later, the Word again became flesh for Cochise when Pastor Rick moved his family into the neighborhood; refused to be intimidated by taunts or horrified by a…
Read MoreMotivational Monday: “Boys R Us” by Swoope
Searching for a way to encourage older teens transitioning into adulthood? Check out this new hit by Swoope:
Read MoreFinally Friday: 3 Practical Ways to Empower Youth
Milton Campbell shares 3 practical ways to empower your youth! Check it out:
Read MoreAre You Ministering Down to Stereotypes?
“Once you label me you negate me.” – Soren Kierkergaard Some stereotypes are real. At least that’s the thought that crossed my mind last week driving through Queens, when my wife observed that we were stopped at the quintessential “ghetto” intersection (she didn’t use the word ghetto; I did), lined with a check cashing pay-day…
Read MoreMotivational Monday: Larry Acosta on Empowering the Next Generation
Empowering the Next Generation Hear from the man who followed his calling and started UYWI.
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