Youth for Christ approaches inner city with holistic ministry

USA (MNN) -- Overall, Youth for Christ focuses their ministry on school campuses. Yet, in the past decade, they've also been intentional about their inner city ministry, City Life. Executive Director of YFC's Central Ohio branch, Scott Arnold, says within 20 years, the majority of kids will live in cities. He asks: "How do we take what we've learned and then begin to add to it things that we don't know about what it takes to be effective in a city?" Through questioning, YFC has discovered a holistic approach, which then divides into specific programs for prevalent issues: "We just recognize [the] reality that social needs and spiritual needs both have to happen in a really broken community for you to get traction in moving kids toward becoming life-long followers of Jesus." Specific to the inner city, they've learned: "We tend to think of inner cities as places where there's poverty or there's teen pregnancy or there are lots of single-parent families. And that can be true. But we think the number one core issue in the inner city is broken relationships." Learn how to start restoring these relationships by visiting our Web site. Full story: http://www.MNNonline.org/article/14039