What is Young Life?
Young Life is an interdenominational Christian Organization that reaches out to every Middle School and High School Student. This takes place when Christ Centered Volunteer Leaders and Staff build friendships with teens. As a natural part of these relationships we communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ to our teenage friends in a non-threatening, loving way.
Quotes From Kids:
Young Life has given me a sense of belonging and family.
Young Life has given me life again.
Young Life has given me faith to continue my life. It has saved me from a lesser fate.
Young Life has helped me realize so much more about myself and my relationship with God. It is truly amazing.
Young Life has helped me through the good times and the bad. It has given me lifelong values and friends and I can’t imagine my life without it.
Young Life helped me out when having a rough time in my life and pulled me out and helped me get through the rough times.
Young Life has shown me what a relationship with God really is. I’ve become closer to God because of it.
Young Life has given me the Christian community I needed toget through high school
Before I came to Young Life, I didn’t feel a sense of purpose in my life. Now I have been shown how amazing God is and how much He loves me.
What I appreciate most about Young Life is the amazing leaders.
Young Life has made me reflect deeply on God’s role in my life…and it’s given me a group of people who love me for me and that’s important.
Why Young Life?
We are creating solid Christian leadership in the ministry of Young Life and beyond! Here is a list of people who have graduated OP in the past 10 years and what they are doing now.
Full Time Staff:
Chris McCune- Area Director: Somerset, PA
Andrew Vogan- Area Director: Exeter, NH
Lisa Thomson- Crooked Creek Ranch Property Staff: Fraser, CO
Student Staff:
David Armstrong- Mobile, AL
Team Leaders:
Angela Salerno- Athens, Ohio
Jess Weiss-Hamburg, NY
Matt Nedimeyer- Ithaca, NY
Volunteer Leaders:
Mike Hammond- Wood County, OH
Vince Makowski- Syracuse, NY
Kelsey Sweet- Rochester, NY
Meghan Robertson- Rochester, NY
Scott Schuler-Hamburg, NY
Casey Beuler-Hamburg, NY
Samantha Jemiolo- Orchard Park, NY
Chelsea Wheeler- Orchard Park, NY
Nick Pokoj- Orchard Park, NY
Nick Kaczmerek- Orchard Park, NY
Matt Campbell- Riverside, CA
This is only a list of kids who are currently involved in YL. It doesn’t include the kids who were volunteers or on staff and now are not. It doesn’t include the kids who are leading the LifeTeen at Nativity, or a Bible study in the Navy, or a Bible study for Intervarsity. This doesn’t include all of the kids who are now living Christian lives, raising Christian families, and are leaders in their place of work or churches.
We are also making a difference in the lives of kids in the HS and MS. We have relationships and are sharing Christ with kids who have family problems, drug and alcohol addictions, are making destructive sexual decisions, and the list goes on and on. Each kid that we work with is unique and needs Christ in their life. We are here to give them Christ and to help them grow in their love and knowledge of Him. While many ministries get wider they grow shallower. I am proud to say that is not true of us. While we do grow and look to continue to grow wider; the depth of our relationship with kids and the depth that we take kids in their faith is never compromised.