Detroit Metro Youth for Christ

We believe the Bible is God’s inherent Word and gives direction for living life to its fullest. Without an authoritative standard of right and wrong young people are led to the slippery slope of almost anything goes. Personal feelings and self-gratification are often valued more than truth, facts, and personal responsibility.

Our Mission:
YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.

Locally:
In the Detroit Metropolitan area includes more than 500,000 11 - 19-year-olds in 3 counties. Today, we are focused primarily on 3 communities within our target area with prayerful consideration and planning to multiply our efforts for future expansion.
We look for every good opportunity to partner with local churches, Like-minded organizations, and others with whom we share common goals and see a way to advance the cause of raising up strong leaders who make a difference in their community.

YFC'S 5 ESSENTIALS FOR FRUITFUL AND SUSTAINABLE MINISTRY SITES:

Widespread Prayer
We deliberately engage lots of Christians to intercede on behalf of the ministry site.

Loving Relationships
We consistently pursue lost kids & engage them in life-long relationships with Jesus.

Faithful Bible Teaching
We accurately handle Biblical truth, regularly coaching kids to apply it in their lives

Collaborative Community Strategy
We intentionally work together with local churches, agencies and other partners to provide sustainable youth and family ministry.

Adults Who Empower
We strategically develop leaders to reach young people from every people group.

“Geared to the times, Anchored to the Rock” (YFC’s Motto from the early years) remains the bedrock of our ministry. Our challenge continues to understand the times and while applying effective methods to anchor 11 - 19 year olds to the message and person of Christ. Thousands of young people have been impacted by God through the faithful staff, volunteers, and student leaders over the last seventy-five years. To continue to maximize our efforts to engage more young people in our post-Christian culture with an increasingly resistant and sometimes hostile environment to the Christian message we have to be more strategic and focused in seeking out God’s leading.

Our strong programing, positions, staff, and volunteers to become a significant influence and part of a young persons life. With tools like weekly clubs, neighborhood activities, juvenile institutions, local schools, camps, and a unique collaborative program using dirt bikes as a mentoring tool are some of the ways we impact the lives of kids.

Over the last 75 years, thousands of young people's lives have been impacted. In the Detroit Metro area, we have two youth facilities located next to public schools, both of these facilities are mortgage-free. Allowing us to focus our donations directly into working with youth. We have a five-year strategic plan to face the needs of future funding, building our capacity of staff and current outreach, staff and board development and a succession plan for aging out leadership. We have a strong interdependent relationship with all of the chapters in YFC/USA offering best practices as models of future endeavors. Currently, we have private funding through individuals, churches, and foundations averaging $350,000 a year. We maintain a healthy relationship with schools, institutions, and communities with a reputation for being effective in working with young people, even the hard to reach.
We need to double our giving base in order to grow our impact in reaching more youth. Our goal is to have easily duplicatable actions to share with others to mentor more young people and build our capacity for future growth.