Happy 70th!
Dear Friends, Happy Birthday! Just two weeks ago, Young Life officially celebrated its 70 th birthday. In 1941 Jim Rayburn and some other folks in Texas had a great vision for how to reach out to teenagers who weren’t interested in the church and started this mission….what a wonderful thing to celebrate! They discussed how to live out Colossians 4:5 “ Walk in wisdom to them that are without ” and John 1:14 “ And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” (KJV) with teenagers to help them hear the gospel with new ears and be discipled by a loving Christian. It’s how they formed their plan to reach teenagers and it’s what Young Life is still doing—going where kids are and helping them hear and experience the gospel for themselves. But, while Young Life is still very true to its roots, I like to think the mission has grown even more than Jim and his friends in Texas could originally have imagined. Camp in Colombia Jim and his friends started with the desire to reach teens