Life Coaches for Kids®: Major Expansion

These are exciting days for the national Life Coaches for Kids^® ministry, which has served as an umbrella and resource to us at Bethlehem for years. 

Over the last year, Life Coaches began a partnership with Young Life, the world’s largest youth ministry (reaching approximately 2 million kids in about 70 countries).  The goal of Life Coaches has always been to reach the millions of father-absent kids throughout the world.  Until the Young Life partnership, however, Life Coaches ministries had only been started in a handful of states and in India on a small scale.  At this time Young Life has already started training hundreds of mentors in 15 major cities in the U.S.  This kind of expansion has been the hope of Life Coaches all along.

The next step of this partnership was just announced. As of May 1, Young Life will be taking over ownership of the Life Coaches ministry.  Practically, this means the ministry has the chance to grow 30-fold (by conservative estimates) over the coming years, without having to build a national-sized ministry from scratch -- Young Life already has the scale necessary to expand Life Coaches immediately!

Please join us in praying for this amazing opportunity.  At Bethlehem, we will keep doing what we've been doing with just a few small adjustments, like finding a new name for our ministry.  Our hope is that thousands more kids in Young Life programming will get to experience what 15 kids are currently experiencing in ours.

Life Coaches has put together a good-bye page on their website.  It has a moving photo tribute to their last 12 years of church-based ministry.  I encourage you to check it out.  You'll see a number of pics of the mentors in our program and they sneak me in there too.  Enjoy!  

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