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Fun and Games

August 29, 2014

The Youth Horizons Mentoring team has been holding monthly game and movie nights since the beginning of the year. The fun evenings have provided an opportunity for matches to connect, potential mentors to get involved with the program, and kids on the Waiting List to spend time with caring adults. Christian is a 10-year-old boy on...

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Letter from Earnest – September 2014

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Residential

August 29, 2014

My friends – we have had the summer of a lifetime this year and yet is has been very difficult for us. There is tremendous cause for celebration but we also feel a tremendous sense of loss. Let me explain. We are just past the one-year mark with the second house being open. It was pretty...

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New Mentor Orientation – 08/06/14

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August 6, 2014

Letter from Earnest – August 2014

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August 4, 2014

Happy August to all of you! And it is happy. We are all in good health. Our great God is faithful to provide for our needs. We continue to be challenged and inspired by our work and more than anything, with the help of the Holy Spirit we are making God’s love known to others. By...

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Quilting and Church Camp

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Mentoring, Success Stories

August 4, 2014

“I’m learning stuff that only a grandma can teach you,” Teresa Coons says. She’s making a quilt with her mentor, Patricia Carey. Teresa – who will be starting her junior year in high school this fall – has been matched for almost a year with Patricia. Soon after they were matched, Patricia invited Teresa along to a...

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Summer Camp

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Residential

August 4, 2014

The residents at the Kinloch Price Boys Ranch had the opportunity to attend Super Summer Church camp with the River Community Church youth group earlier this summer. It was an amazing experience for the boys – and for the house parents. “The boys from Youth Horizons spent time intermingling with the kids from the River youth...

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Youth Horizons Benefit Golf Scramble – 07/12/14

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July 12, 2014

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Awards Party a Success

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Mentoring

July 3, 2014

More than 150 goals were set and accomplished this spring by children in the mentoring program. The Mentoring Awards Banquet was held June 5 at Countryside Christian Church. Mentors worked with their protégés to set academic, life skills, and spiritual or service goals. The party was made possible by the generous support of Richard and...

July2014

Patty and Rachel

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Mentoring, Success Stories

July 3, 2014

Just make sure to use spellcheck. That’s mentor Patty Gnefkow’s advice for her protégé Rachel Perkins as she prepares to apply for jobs and enter into the post-high school world. Patty and Rachel have been matched for five years. They first started meeting when Rachel was 13. “We have a mutual and genuine friendship,” says Patty. “I think of...

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Chicago Trip

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Residential

July 3, 2014

The boys at the Kinloch Price Boys Ranch spent a week in Chicago last month along with some of the ranch staff and their families. “There were 21 of us in all”, says Zach Massey, lead house parent. The purpose of the trip was largely experiential, says Zach. “To see what life is like in a big...

July2014, Kinloch Price Boys Ranch, La Villita

Fun and Games

Letter from Earnest – September 2014

New Mentor Orientation – 08/06/14

Letter from Earnest – August 2014

Quilting and Church Camp

Summer Camp

Youth Horizons Benefit Golf Scramble – 07/12/14

Awards Party a Success

Patty and Rachel

Chicago Trip

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