CFC Youth for Christ is a young community of believers, a ministry of Couples for Christ Global Mission Foundation, filled with the vibrancy and conviction of the Spirit,eager to answer the call to do one thing โspread the love of Christ.
CFC Youth for Christ embraces the bigger vision of Couples for Christ: Families in the Holy Spirit renewing the face of the earth. The bigger mission: Building the church of the home and the church of the poor.
The community is driven with FOUR Programs grounded in different areas of the society.
CFC-YFC Community Based: Renewal in Christ through raising faith communities
A program that is grounded within different kinds of communities such as villages, subdivisions, barangays, and parishes.
CFC-YFC High School Based: Bringing Godโs High to the Schools
This program deals with the youth in both private and public high schools, but also reaches out to the school administration, faculty, and moderators.
CFC-YFC Campus Based: Renewing the Society in Christ Through the Campuses
A program which interacts with the more mature individuals in the YFC age spectrum. It is composed of all admin, faculty, staff, parents, and college students in universities and colleges.
CFC-YFC TORCH: Towards Renewal in Christ
This program serves as the identity program of the sons and daughters of the CFC Mission Core Group Members, it's a venue preparing the youth to share the torch of leadership of their parents to continue the mission, as it is handed from their parentโs generation to theirs.
CFC-YFC YCOM: How can they hear if the message is not proclaimed? Rom.10:14
This is the official communication arm & Mission Tool of YFC and its tasked to assist the YFC Ministry in doing the evangelization in a more creative manner.
With the pressing realities of the youth, Youth for Christ is guided by the principle of 4Fโs: Fun, Friendship, Faith, Freedom
FUN: Being young means having fun. YFC promotes and supports the dynamism of the youthโs thirst to enjoy life by empowering them to live it to the fullest. YFC encourages funโgood, clean fun.
FRIENDSHIP: This is the time of their lives when the youth begin to form lasting relationships with their peers. YFC encourages friendship among young people, enabling them to see God in each and every individual they encounter. The community allows the youth to experience new things, to learn, and to grow with friends.
FREEDOM: One can barely contain the enthusiasm of a spirit. Within YFC, the youth experience freedom from sins, from insecurities, and from difficulties in the past, as well as the freedom to express love and to become the individuals whom God meant them to be.
FAITH: None of the three can be fully experienced without faith in God. In YFC, the youth are taught the Catholic faith that they may better appreciate the abundant blessings they receive in their lives.
Our YFC Identity is our oneness and commonness as brothers and sisters in YFC. Yet each of us has our own uniqueness which also emanates from God as individuals and as one body anchored on the image and likeness of God. Here in YFC, our ultimate goal is to bring the youth to Christ.
We believe that our true and ultimate destiny is that we are sons and daughters of God. Our identity is the result of our innate and core values that we in YFC want to live by. Being a YFC is not just our spiritual identity, rather, the 7 IDโs are the fullness of who we are and what we can become as a true youth FOR CHRIST.
The battle cry of Every YFC: To know God and to make God known, with Passion Excellence and Integrity.
I am a YFC. Therefore I amโฆ
A Missionary. The deepest desire of my heart is to proclaim His glory. God calls me to evangelize His word. And I will walk till the ends of the earth to make Him known. I will be the strength of my brothers and sisters. I will be patient to those who have no time to listen. I will help them carry their cross even if Iโm already struggling for my own.
A Model of Excellence. Cheating is not worth my reputation. I strive for finesse.I aim for excellence and I work for it. I am disciplined focus and driven. I fight ignorance and seek for knowledge. I explore all my capabilities and maximize my potentials. I believe that this world is full of hidden mysteries waiting for my discovery. I am fated to succeed in my chosen field. I excel in my studies but remains outstanding in my service. I use my talents and skills to serve my Master. I give Him back the glory. I will forever be His instrument.
Champion of the Poor. I am selfless. I open my hearts and hands to those in need. I listen to the cry of the less fortunate, the unheard voice of the poor. I treat them equally and fairly. I care for them and value their existence. I protect their dignity. I respect them for they deserve to be respected. I share to them the privileged of being love. They are worth the love of my GOD, and they have all the right to know it.
A Patriot. I am proud of my race and nationality. I love my country for I know this is where my God wants me to celebrate His glory. I refuse to blame the government for its current situation. I am part of the problem and so as the solution. I strive to contribute something to make it a better place. I work for the betterment of my fellowmen.I shield them from abuse and discrimination.
100% Free. I walk in the sane and wholesome path of chastity.I consider my body the temple of my soul. I wonโt defile it for it means tarnishing my spirit. I am not cynical about love. I donโt play game on the seriousness of its affection. I believe that real love waits.If it means I have to sacrifice then so be it. I keep my mind open but pure. I show it through my words and my actions.I despise the thought of evil and reject lustful ideas that poison my mind. I am pure in heart. I denounce selfish ambitions, violence and abuse in any form. I prefer the road less traveled even if it means being alone. I am unmoved by the overpowering influence of the crowd. I protect my future and I say no to alcohol drugs and other vices that could harm my being.
Single-Minded for God. I am living a God-centered life.I surrender to His will. I donโt question His plans on my life. I trust rather than doubt. I allow Him to fulfill His purpose in me. I strive to live my life the way He lived His.
Source of Unity to the Family. Evangelization starts at home.I serve God by serving my family. I make sure that communication is always open. I strive to understand rather than to be understood. I talk less and listen more. I protect unity and oness. I respect my parents and love my siblings.
A+ | Creating a culture of excellence
Education is an act that has formative effects on the mind, character or physical ability of a person. It is a process wherein acquired knowledge, skills, and values are transmitted from one generation to another. Hence, it plays a significant role especially in molding the minds of the youth because it teaches one to think intensively and critically. Being one of the basic needs of man to prepare himself and actively face what the world can offer, education molds and equips a person for his future and to face the rapid changes in the society.
Despite of the vitality of the role of education in the society, it continues to face pressing issues from the declining interest of the youth to study, the divided attention of the youth between learning and social media and computer games, the lack of facilities in public schools, frequent interruption of classes because of erratic weather, and the alarming number of drop out due to poverty and other limitations. CFC- Youth for Christ has taken notice of these issues and is taking active participation in seeking solutions to the prevailing issues on education through basic paradigm shifting. YFC desires that fateful moment good quality education is shared to all and social transformation is achieved through education.
This gave birth to the A+, an education advocacy of the CFC-Youth for Christ. Aligned with the ministryโs vision of, โYoung People Being and Bringing Christ Wherever They are,โ A+ moves the young to put their faith into action through education by living out one of the identities of a Youth for Christ, โModels of Excellence.โ With an anchor verse taken from the book Romans 12: 11, โWork hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion,โ the young are challenged to walk their talk in the hopes that a bright, renewed and united society awaits us.
As students, we have been blessed to be given the opportunity to grow and learn in schools, campuses, and universities. A+ is an advocacy that calls young to embrace education as giftโa special gift from God. Like every good gift received, we must treasure education with care and utilize it for its purpose. Education is a gift given to us by the Lord intended to be shared to others and to transform the society.
100 Percent Free | Be free. Break free. Live free.
Purity and chastity has always been one of the values that we as Christians want to uphold. These virtues give us a deeper sense of worth and a greater understanding on the sacredness of the gift called life. These virtues tell us that we are no ordinary creatures but an authentic child of God.
With this in mind, we are called to live in a matter worthy of being His children, imitating the ways of His Son Jesus. This hasnโt been easy for most of the youth today. In a lifestyle where influence can be found anywhere and anytime, there has been a growing sense of confusion and distortion Godโs intention for love and freedom.
Secularism, materialism, and relativism are simply few of the many factors that seek to confuse minds, distort values, and influence the lifestyle of the young generation. As Youth for Christ, we aim to stand by the life that God has created us for, to live as one upholding the values and lessons that He has taught from the beginning. The YFC Identities serve as a guide and reminder of the primary roles that we ought to take on in this life. One of these identities is to live 100% Free.
More than having something to fight for, the freedom to live life as it should be is something that every person should experience and enjoy. It is a common notion to associate freedom with the thought of doing anything that we want to do. The world has placed the real kind of freedom that God has given us into a negative light. As children of God, we use the freedom God has given us to achieve our main purpose of loving, honoring, and serving Him.
RevUP | Revolution of Uplifting the Poor
The Lord has a crazy dream for His people. According to Jeremiah 29:11, โI alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for.โ With this regard, the Lord has two plans for mankind; one is for everyone to experience prosperity and not disaster, which means that the Lord planned mankind to experience his grace and the fullness of life in Him and not to feel grief, pain and poverty. His other plan is for mankind to have a future to hope for, a future that the people would always look forward to.
Even with His original plan, the reality remains that there are still poor people around us. Sadly though, people all over the world give donations and alms which help them go through their days, however their real needs are still being ignored.
Over the years the community of Couples for Christ have been advocating and moving towards the alleviation from poverty. The community has already been able to start programs to help the poor, regain their confidence and their lives as well. The CFC with its mission in Building the Church of the Poor has the program of ANCOP or Answering the Cry of the Poor. This program aims to alleviate poverty in the country, through education, community development and health and nutrition. This is the way of CFC to help alleviate poverty in the country.
As Youth For Christ, we believe that as young as we are, we have the capacity to be of great help especially helping the ones closest to our heart, the youth. YFC are called Champions of the poor, we are to help out in alleviating poverty in the country by sparking hope in the hearts of our fellow youth and to start change in the society by changing their minds with regards to poverty so that the trend of poverty may stop.
YFC REV UP or Revolution of Uplifting the Poor is a call for Youth For Christ to be young people moved by the Holy Spirit to work with the poor as an expression of Godโs transforming love.
A response to the YFC Identity of being a Champion of the Poor, and rooted on the verse โโฆTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.โโ โ Matthew 25:40. REV UP is an advocacy which aims to spark change in the society, through the power and passion of the youth, by allowing them to see God even in the least of our brothers and sisters.
G-Project | Green generation for a greener nation
In the story of creation, the Lord created everything else before man. Not just to have a place to live in but it comes with a responsibility to nurture and cultivate it. โThen the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it.โ Genesis 2:15
The call to take care Godโs creation has been one of our purposes; to be stewards of His creation. But instead of taking care of it, we seem to take it for granted. Itโs beauty and magnificence slowly fades because the very hands that is supposed to nurture it, is the same hands that destroy it. We became selfish with our own comfort.
This call still continues to speak to us as we hear the cry of our environment as we experience calamities and disasters. It is time that we as members of Youth for Christ take a stand in fighting the apathy towards nature, and start taking proactive measures in helping reverse the effects of our previous actions. It is after all in the heart of our mission as Christians to take care of what was given to us by God. Most of us neglect the fact that in order to love and serve Christ fully, we must also love, protect and care for the environment that He blessed us with.
YFC Greeneration is an advocacy of Youth for Christ that aims to rally todayโs generation to be a green generation for a greener nation. It is an expression of love to God by a generation called to take care of His creation. This is Youth for Christโs response to the call for responsible stewardship, that is deeply rooted to the attitude of Catholic stewardship. It acknowledges that everything that we are enjoying right now came to be because of God. From the food we eat, to the place that shelters us, none of these will be in existence if not for Him. As others mistakenly adore so much the creation to the point of ignoring the Creator, YFC Greenerationโs every action is directed towards the Creator channeled through His creation.
The Youth for Christ continues to excel in its evagelization all-throughout the world.
