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Stories of transformation or inspiration from teenagers or youth leaders in Young Life

Faces of Young Life is dedicated to telling the stories behind the many faces that represent Young Life

23/04/2024

Contact Work is the name we use for the "no programs, just friendship" part of what we do to make a difference in the lives of young people. Our volunteers and staff ask themselves the question, "where are youth hanging out after school, and what are they doing?" In discovering the answer to these questions our team enters the world of teenagers by going to where they are and building positive mentoring-relationships. These connections start at the play ground, city square, park bench or at a sports field. From these beginnings it is our goal to bring hope and transform lives.

24/09/2021

Happy 20th year anniversary to Young Life Belarus. The team celebrated in style and we are so thankful to all the wonderful friends and supporters of Young Life in Belarus. We are blessed with a wonderful team of staff and volunteers reaching out to teens!

22/06/2021

Help us make a world of difference in the lives of teens in Belarus and the Baltics. Send a teen to camp. Partner with a local staff person. Support an outreach program.
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17/06/2021

The Corona Virus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have had a significant impact on our face-to-face relationship style of outreach to teens. Like many schools, churches, and other groups we too went online in a bid to remain connected with youth.

We remained faithful to being there for youth, creating a friendly and open environment to chat, have fun and talk about Jesus. This new space presented many challenges, but we faithfully turned up each week.

Interestingly, most of the teens who showed up online were teens who would not necessarily turn up to our face-to-face meetings. These teens where the online-teen. They spent their time after school online gaming and in chats with like-minded youth.

The online teen would likely never turn up to church, a youth group, or even a Young Life club event. They consisted primarily of atheists and skeptics who have no problem mocking and chastising outsiders.

They shared stories of their struggles with the online world and how fatigued and bored they were with online school - many failing to turn up for classes.

We had not seen this youth sub-culture in the past. If it was not for this pandemic, we may never had noticed them. But here they were turning up each week to hang out and hear a little more of who Jesus is, and the difference he can make in their lives.

As things get back to normal, we'll make every effort to continue to provide online content and engage with our online teen friends. We now see them and they matter.

21/08/2018

Nastya has been coming to Young Life for 3 years now. Each time I go to take a photo and if she is in it, she hides her face. She's not the only teen who does this, each year at one of our camps there is someone who does this. The reasons are varied, but we will love and care form them just the same. This year as Nastya served for the first time as a junior leader at camp she was always smiling and served others selflessly and she even allowed photos to be taken of her. Pray for teens like Nastya who for various reasons hide themselves from God and others.

14/08/2018

Some teens in Belarus have never owned a bike or learnt how to ride one. So, Young Life leaders (like Alina here) patiently and loving teach them how to ride. Tomorrow this girl will be riding through the forest and by a beautiful river with her team thanks to Alina and other leaders like her. Way to go!!

17/08/2017

2000 years ago when Jesus walked this earth he was a master at communication often connecting the physical world with the spiritual. He was recorded as saying, "the Kingdom of Heaven is like..." and then draw a comparison to everyday life. At our Young Life camps, we try to do the same. Just another face of Young Life.

12/08/2017

I love the creativity and energy of Young Life club leaders. They are always looking for new and interesting ways to have fun, sing songs, do skits and play games. Here is the latest contribution from our Belarus team. A song called the best day of Young Life

27/06/2017

Veronika lives just outside of Minsk (the capital of Belarus) in a small town. She is 25 and loves Jesus and has a heart for teens that do not go to church. Her involvement with Young Life started several years ago, when on a summers day she was bored with siting in her apartment watching TV. So she decided to grab a soccer ball and go outside to a nearby school oval.

As she walk past several teenagers (who were just sitting around doing nothing), she made a big and bold move “I’m going to the oval to kick the ball around, do you want to join me”?

She loved the fitness aspect and making friends with some of the neighbourhood teenagers. She told a friend about what she was doing, and they said, “You have to check out Young Life, they do the same thing and they have seen many teens make a commitment to follow Jesus”.

So, we met with Veronika and we began to disciple her and encourage her.

When Veronika goes to the sport field today, the big move she made 2 years ago is even bigger – Today she can have anywhere between 20 – 120 teens gather! Isn’t that awesome

Their favourite game is capture the flag, but there is a lot of time for friendship and conversations about Jesus.

16/05/2017

Behind every wonderful program we do for teenagers there is the faceless leader - someone who is serving behind the scenes to allow others to shine in the spotlight. At a Young Life camp we call them Work Crew - they are the ones who volunteer to clean and serve campers & leaders. Our local area's call them Committee - a group of adults who provide wisdom, accountability, encouragement, support and share the burden of staff. Our accounts department call them donors - the ones who provide the financial backing for staff & every program that impacts a teenager. Our mission also call them prayer partners - the faithful who pray invisible prayers to a mighty God who opens doors & transforms lives. Thank God for the faces of these folk whose image is rarely captured by a camera as they serve the mission of Young Life.

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