08/22/2021
The Purpose of Juvenile Tale Outreach
The following service not only reinforces the purpose of Juvenile Tale Outreach, but also satisfies our exemption status which will be up and functioning this year. At-risk youth offenders (ages 10-18) benefit with a Juvenile Tale: Study Workbook and personal mentor via Friend-based Mentorship Program (FBMP).
Youth offenders will also be given information about Bible Study Teaching (i.e. Bible Trivia Newsletters, Vol. 1-3, and The Life Book see “facebook.com/thelifebookmovement“). Participation in these is required for the services offered by Juvenile Tale Outreach.
Recognizing Hope and Change
Mission
Recognizing Hope and Change is found and rooted in placing one’s faith in the bloodshed of Jesus Christ’s finished work on the cross! Juvenile Tale Outreach serves as the vehicle to share the caring message of Jesus Christ’s love with at-risk youth offenders, in need of forgiveness and redemption.
Personal mentors / volunteer members (followers of Christ who have suffered from the unfortunate hands of child abuse and/or experienced juvenile detention/probation) will correspond with youth offenders who sign up for the Friend-based Mentorship Program. It is our intention that they receive not only an authentic and trustworthy mentor, but generous portions of love and attention to feed their spiritual immune system and emotional pain.
Goal
The goal of Juvenile Tale Outreach is to:
Relate, connect and emphasize with at-risk youth offenders’ sufferings in such a way that will grasp their attention and inspire change
Help them find purpose, meaning and direction for their lives before they make the mistakes that can lead them to prison or worse.
In addition, it’s JTO’s intention to present a copy of A Juvenile Tale: Study Workbook to the Juvenile Justice System, in America and abroad, hoping they will see the possibility for at-risk youth offenders’ lives to be changed through approving and implementing the study as a ‘required’ 26-weekly curriculum to aid in their rehabilitation [Spiritual Deliverance, Healing, and Transformation].
Impact Message: Don’t allow this juvenile experience to drive you into giving up on life or believing that your life does not matter. Truth is that you are valuable, cherished, and you have both a future and a hope. Simply stated, YOUR LIFE ABSOLUTELY MATTERS!
At-Risk Youth Offenders: Those are of lesser physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual maturity due to young age, medical condition, environment (location, family cohesion, financial situation, etc.) and are possibly more severely exposed to brokenness, despair, poverty, juvenile detention/probation, and lack of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
These pressures may cause them to feel inadequate to have a relationship with God, therefore, they don’t seek such a relationship until someone is involved in their lives to instruct them in God’s love and Christ’s sacrifice.
Hope: Confident expectation about the future based on the character and promises of God.
Change: To exchange old habit patterns for new ones in Christ.