Badgerland Youth for Christ-Portage & Wood County

01/16/2023

Today we remember Dr Martin Luther King Jr

12/22/2022

Big changes coming our way! As of January 1st, 2023 we will be part of Badgerland Youth for Christ as the Wood and Portage County ministry site. This page will remain but branding may change a little in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

10/12/2022

"I can grab a pencil when I want one" What other little things have students in the detention center learned not to take for granted? Find out more in this week's prayer email:

"I can get a pencil whenever I want to use one." The conversation topic came up again last night, it does every few months or so with our students--"what things have you taken for granted outside of here that you will appreciate more when you leave?"  Two of the three boys I was talking to had neve...

10/11/2022

We are revamping our aftercare program and need your help!! Have a helpful skill, craft or idea to share with our students? Are you interested in providing or purchasing a meal for 6-8 people? Sign up for either one here:

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Meals can be dropped off any time between 12pm-4:30 pm. Leaders should expect to present or engage the students from 3:45-4:45pm Thank you!

10/05/2022

A new direction and new space for our aftercare programming. Find out more in this week's prayer email:

"Pray for space," God whispered. This year has been full of amazing ministry growth and progress, some stories that have already been shared, others that are still developing and yet to be told.  Throughout 2022 one thing God has continuously whispered to me is "pray for ministry space."  I'd driv...

08/31/2022

Miss this week's prayer email? Check it out here:

"Kids these days..."                                         One thing that comes up regularly in both staff and volunteer training in YFC is the differences between the generations.  We often do this not to divide but to have a deeper understanding of concepts or values that mi...

08/29/2022

We are so excited to be the recipients of donations for the music survey on 89Q Hope is Here this week. Check out the music survey here: https://89q.songscore.com/ and listen for more information on Youth for Christ throughout the day on air!

08/24/2022

Building unity one slice of pizza at a time. Find out more in this week's prayer email:

"Are you allowed to do this at home?"                                          "No. If we do we get yelled at for it" Our aftercare programming last week took on new meaning after one of our volunteers asked the students this profound question. Over the last year or so we've gr...

08/17/2022

What does it mean to love our students like Jesus would? Find out in this week's prayer email:

What does it mean to "love like Jesus"? In a recent training on abuse prevention I was challenged to think of this: What does it truly mean to love like Jesus?  I'll admit in my twenty two years of walking with the Lord I'm still figuring that out and regularly fail miserably at it. In the midst o...

08/10/2022

What can we do to help struggling youth in our area? Find out more in this week's prayer email:

A recent headline caught by eye as I was looking through social media... "Half of Stevens Point junior high students were disciplined last year during spike in misbehavior" The article in the Stevens Point Journal shared that a total of 701 of the 1462 students in seventh through ninth grades had so...