S.A.Y. Yes! Centers for Youth Development are an in-your-life mentoring ministry that focuses on the whole child. They are committed to helping young people develop a dynamic, life-long relationship with Jesus Christ and helping them become all that He created them to be.
In many inner-city neighborhoods, Christians are feeling a need to open the doors of their churches during the after school hours, and to minister to children and teens during this time of day when many are unsupervised and vulnerable to getting into trouble. The S.A.Y. Yes! program of HLIC is designed to minister to the wholistic needs of young people: physical, spiritual, emotional, social and intellectual. Here's Life Inner City offers specialized training, curriculum, and other forms of assistance.
S.A.Y. Yes! PURPOSE STATEMENT
"To help youth develop a lifelong, dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ."
OUR OBJECTIVES
We will minister to the whole child. (Luke 10:27)
He answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."
HEART (Emotions, Will)
Provide a supportive environment in which youth will develop into morally wise and emotionally strong leaders.
SOUL (Spiritual)
Provide a spiritually nurturing environment in which youth will develop into Spirit-filled, multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ.
STRENGTH (Physical)
Provide opportunities for healthy physical growth and development of future leaders.
MIND (Intellectual, Educational, Occupational)
Provide an intellectually stimulating environment in which youth will achieve appropriate academic and occupational potential.
NEIGHBOR (Social, Community)
Develop young leaders who are concerned for and involved in serving their community.
Why Youth Development?
Because there are children with wonderful potential waiting to be freed.
If Christians dont allow Jesus to use them to unleash this marvelous potential, they will see angry boys and girls become angry and hateful men and women. No community will be immune to this rage.
In the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots a vision was born in the heart of Dan Pryor, Director of Heres Life Inner City Los Angeles, and Dr. John Perkins, founder of Christian Community Development. They envisioned a transformed and changed city by a power greater than the forces of evil that tried to destroy it.
That vision became S.A.Y. (Save Americas Youth) Yes! Centers for Youth Development. S.A.Y. Yes! is an after-school Christian mentoring program that addresses the challenges of children who live in the inner city by giving them something to say yes to.
When we reach the children we reach the nation.
