Long Island Youth Mentoring
Long Island Youth Mentoring helps the Church in providing a safe and effective ministry to fatherless youth. We have done so for forty years.
Mission
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27God shares His call to visit and minister His love to the fatherless 40 times in His word.
Mission
God shares His call to visit and minister His love to the fatherless 40 times in His word.
We are here to assist the Church in answering this call safely and effectively.
Auction
The Harvest Auction is a once a year event that is designed to fill God’s storehouse with the financial resources that are necessary to fulfill His mission. It is a quality fun event. Join us by staying at home! Long Island Youth Mentoring will hold the 2020 auction online this year.Auction
Bidding opens Thursday, November 19th, at 6 pm. We will also have a live-streamed program on Saturday, November 21st starting at 7 pm. Invite friends for a fun viewing and bidding party. We will share God’s heart for this ministry, highlight some of the auction items, and have some fun.
Why
The answer to the problems caused by fatherlessness are not found by passing a law or passing out more checks. A problem that is caused by the loss of a primary relationship – a missing Dad — must be addressed and solved, by the establishment of new, positive personal relationships.Why
Long Island Youth Mentoring recruits healthy Christians to consider if God is calling them to a mission field of one fatherless child. Then we provide a screening and training process. This helps prospective mentors determining if this is a part of God’s call. If so, we match them with one child who has asked for a mentor. They meet for 2-4 hours each week for a year. FATHERLESSNESS
Values
The best way to communicate God’s love, truth, and righteousness on this mission field is through personal one-to-one relationships. We depend on the Spirit of God to help us discern people’s core needs. We seek to do so in a way that encourages dependence on God…Values
• …and assist in meeting them. We seek to do so in a way that encourages dependence on God, His Church, and His biblical mandate to work to sustain ourselves and to serve others.
Minister to Long Island Fatherless Children
The ministry of Long Island Youth Mentoring is made possible by God’s provision through His people who invest their time and resources.
YOUTH MENTORING STORIES
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An Orphan’s Story
On one recent, especially beautiful day, Linda was hoping to hike with Jaclyn (an orphan living in a group home). But to be totally truthful, she did not expect to be able to leave the building. Linda was having a bad day already and dreaded the idea of being holed up in that dark room, again, playing yet another game of Yahtzee where the sound of dice echoes endlessly around the cinderblock walls. She wondered why she had even planned anything as she waited for Jaclyn to appear down that long, cold hallway.
A Tale of Two Journals – Bud and Me
Bud, February 2017 My name is Bud. I'm ten. As soon as school is over for the day, [...]
Max is Waiting
He opened the small lidded box slowly, almost reverently, and introduced me to his treasures one by one. Among them was a small toy airplane, a rock shining with mica, and a souvenir from an outing with his parents. I listened raptly as he told me how he had acquired each item and pointed out their other distinguishing characteristics. Then suddenly he looked up at me, directly into my eyes and said, “My daddy died.”
Good Lap Andy
We were standing in the lobby of a church where I had just spoken. A young man walked up to me to say thank you. He was surrounded by a group of kids he had packed in a van and brought to church. “Why do you thank me?”
So Alive
Eight-year-old Courtney* is the oldest of four girls in her family. As with most of our Youth Mentoring kids, Courtney and her three younger sisters are being raised by a single mother. Her parents divorced about two years ago and that was the beginning of Courtney’s challenges. As a result of her depression, anger, hurt and fear over the divorce, Courtney started down a road of overt defiance at home and at school, which caused her grades and peer relationships to dramatically shift in the wrong direction.
I sent the following text to one of our mentors: This is the reply I received: Here are the details: Roger & Chris are the most unlikely of pairs. Roger is all gray-haired, Jesus loving wisdom. Chris is all things youthful, including…
Katie* was and is a troubled young woman. All of her life’s “demons” have yet to be exorcised, but at the very least, the reality of how much her Youth Mentoring friend has meant to her over the last 10 years is finally sinking in …
I’ve been having a rough time lately more with myself then anything else really; my mom and family are well which is a blessing. This prison time is not easy, at this time in my life I would truly like to do the things that are positive in . . .
When a child grows up in a dysfunctional home, he knows nothing else but to repeat that pattern. When a Christian mentor prays up and shows up 2-4 hours a week, the child experiences God’s love. Within that love, a new family legacy is modeled and made available. Will you consider this life-changing call?
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