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EVERYYOUNG PERSON/ONEAT A TIME
phone: 209-522-TEEN fax: 209-522-8621 email: [email protected]
web: www.scyfc.com
Play Ball!Rick J. Fritzemeier,Executive Director
Joe, Johnny and Frank were nothing more than average as major
league ball players. Sure theywere in the majors, but between the
three their highest batting average was .262.
They certainly werent long ball hitters (even for their era)
with Joe having the best career HR record of thethree at a mere 32.
Stealing bases? Nope, nothing special there, they only totaled 20
for all three of themduring their entire time in the majors.
But all three are all still memorialized at Cooperstown in the
Hall of Fame. Perhaps even more to the point,they are as of this
date the only players in the great Hall that were inducted not as
individuals, but as aunit.
Tinker to Evers to Chance! The mighty 6-4-3 combo of the 1908
Chicago cubs. In fact as a double play unitthey have yet to be
surpassed, still having recorded the most double plays ever for the
same combination of
short stop, 2nd baseman, first baseman.
Amazing really that in a sport that greatly honors individual
accomplishment, these three average guys sitenthroned with the
likes of the Babe, Gehrig, Mays, Sutton, Thompson, Reese, Robinson,
and Kofax, not forbeing great as an individual, but rather as a
team of three.
Eccl. 4 puts it this way, but a three strong cord is not easily
broken.
YFC has a wonderful staff & volunteer team, including our
wonderful Board members, but withoutyourpartnership (take your
pick, do you want SS, 2nd base or 1stbase?) we cant make the play
happen.
And just as important as Tinker to Evers to Chance was to the
Cubs accomplishing their mission of winninga World Series (they
actually did it 4 times during their T-E-C era), your partnership
is absolutely critical toour mission, seeing thousands of lost
youth become life long followers of Jesus Christ.
Play Ball!Rick
P.S. Speaking of partnerships, we need your help. With this
newsletter we are launching the E-project. Ourgoal is to redirect
as much of our written communication with you (from us to you and
vice versa) aspossible to electronic form. Newsletter on the web or
in email. Gift receipts in email. Gifts from you to usthrough our
electronic banking system or our web site. Of course you have to be
okay with and agree to this.
But heres the motivation, we believe if enough of you will
partner with us in the E-project venture, it couldmean a saving of
as much as $20000/year. Im thinking that should/could be
motivating.
So please give this your consideration, watch for more info. In
the coming weeks about converting over, orfor more immediate
answers give Christie Berlin, our office manager, a call at
(209)522-9568 ext.111.
Graduating Class of 2011Marvin Jacobo, Director of Tapestry
YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the
local church and other likemindedpartners to raise up lifelong
followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle,
devotion to the Word of God
and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ and
commitment to social environment.
Youre Invited!
Come to one of our upcoming See the Story events!
Learn how the ministry of YFC is impacting kids in our
community.This is a free event.A light meal will be provided.This
is not a fundraising event.
Please be our guest at any of thefollowing dates
May 25th, June 22nd, and July 27th.12:00-1:00pm
Please RSVP to [email protected] or call us at 522.TEEN x
119
In Memory ofSheryl Fenstad&Kenneth Paul
Youth for Christ wishes to thank those who
havegenerously given in honor of
Sheryland Kennethslives.
Eileen Bushong Glee Fritzemeier Julie Hargraves Paul Madden
Angels StoryRick Roberts
Juvenile Justice Director
Over the years in the Juvenile Hallwe have ministered to many
teenswho we knew could eventually besentenced as adults and spend
muchof their lives in institutions. One of
these young men was Angel Cabanillas. Angel wasgiven a 132 year
sentence for a murder he commit-ted at 14 years of age. We could
look at Angels lifeand say what a tragic waste, but God still has a
de-
sign for his life. Angel became a Christian while inthe
Stanislaus County Juvenile Hall. Albert Dade-sho was his mentor and
still makes regular contacteven now where he is in the Delano State
Peniten-tiary. Angel has become passionate about his rela-tionship
with Jesus and has a desire to share hisstory with other teens
about the consequences of
being in a gang. He recently hand wrote a letter forus to share
with teens that is 2 1/2 pages long en-couraging them to walk a
different path. Below is a
small excerpt:
Dont waste your lives on gangbanging ordrugs. All gangbanging
ever did for me iscause me misery and give me a life sentence
be-hind bars. For the rest of my life Ill be lockedup. For the rest
of my life Ill be separated frommy family. You need to change.
Rehabilita-tion doesnt begin in a program. Rehabilitationbegins
within. I don't know why things hap-
pen the way they do but God Almighty has a
purpose for every thing. All I can do is, Trustin the Lord with
all thine heart and lean notunto thine own under-
Mentor Moms
Alissa Collins
Director of Teen Parents
Mentor: a trusted counselor orfriendDo you know what seems to
betrue of every successful businessperson, movie star, author,
pho-
tographer, politician, pretty much every suc-cessful adult? They
all have had a mentor.Time and time again, as you read
biographies,magazine articles and hear interviews, all at-
tribute their success, in part, to someone whocame alongside
them and helped developtheir raw potential.
With this in mind, Teen Parents is going back
to its roots, with the Mentor Moms program.
Pray for guidance as we seek out women who
can be cheerleaders, encour-
agers, mentors and guides to
these young moms once a
week for 2 hours. PraiseGod for vision and direction
during this exciting time!
Five Love Languages For Couples Inspires Our Work With TeensBy
Marty Villa, Director and Lead Therapist
and Sarah Andrews, Staff Therapist
One of our favorite things to do with couples in counseling is
to have couples take a
Five Love Languages Survey, based on Gary Chapmans book, The
Five Love Lan-guages. The survey assesses in what ways people give
and receive love. The five areas
assessed are:
Words of Affirmation Quality Time Receiving Gifts Acts of
Service Physical Touch
Can you imagine if you and your spouse or significant other
spoke completely different languages, and
how difficult it would be to communicate needs and desires? I
(Sarah) remember back to my own pre-marital counseling and taking
this survey with my husband Matt. Matts primary love languages
areWords of Affirmation and Physical Touch and mine are Quality
Time and Physical Touch. We speak one
language the same, but otherwise we would miss each other's
needs and desires completely because tome I could just sit in the
room with Matt and feel loved, which was nice after a long day in
the office orof counselingto just be together. However, Matt needed
to be together and talk, to speak words and
talk about our days and in this way his needs were met and he
felt loved.
As a couple we can clearly see that when things are tense it is
because I need more quality time or wejust need to stop and catch
up with our words and use them in ways that affirm one another.
Love languages can be assessed not only for spouses, but
adolescents and children as well. Many timeswhen working with
parents and teensor even teens by themselveswe discern that no one
is speakingthis kid's love language and it has not been modeled for
them, and as a result they don't feel heard, un-derstood, or loved.
Just like the couples we counsel theyas well as their parentsneed
to be taught to
listen & speak each other's love language.
Discover your love language
(http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/love/ ).
Mentoring Makes a Difference!Ken SylviaDirector of Mentoring and
Ceres Community Area Ministries
For a while now I have taken the time to write a letter or
informationalpiece about our Next Step Mentoring Program, and
include it in our Youth for Christ newsletter. How-ever, I thought
it would be good for a change to let our mentors tell you how their
efforts are making adifference. Here is a story from Jim Groft, a
retired teacher and school administrator who mentors atCeres High
School.
Jamie (not his real name) just sat there. He didn't make eye
contact and veryrarely entered into our conversations. It was hard
to get him to participate. Afterabout 5 weeks of this, one Monday
he was the only one to show up. We talked andthe Holy Spirit seemed
to open up the floodgates! He shared about his life andhow his
father died and his uncle took over" the drug business (part of a
majordrug cartel from Mexico) in Jamie's area. He shared about
seeing his close cousinshot down before his eyes, the danger of
living in his neighborhood and the fear ofnot waking up in the
morning. He shared, and shared and shared. Finally afterabout 2
hours I told him I needed to leave and offered to take him home (he
is nowliving with another relative). When we arrived at his house,
he continued to shareabout his life. Just before he opened the door
to leave the vehicle, I was promptedby the Holy Spirit to ask him
if he would like to invite Christ into his life. He nod-ded and I
was privileged to lead him to the Throne of Grace of our Lord and
Sav-ior. I immediately contacted some prayer warriors about him
(using his real first
name) and had them pray a hedge of protection around him. My
next concern isto disciple him so that he can grow into the soldier
that Christ can use. What won-derful opportunities God has given us
in the Mentoring program!
What is great about this story from Jim is that this is what we
call missional relationships at its best.Jim has spent countless
hours every week getting to know Jamie, tutoring in math, just
talking about lifestuff, and in many ways simply becoming friends,
and God provided the opportunity beyond and outsideof mentoring
hours to have a spiritual conversation. We believe that it is
crucial to obey the law of theland which prohibits proselytizing
during government sponsored programs, but we are fully within
ourrights to share the Good News outside of that time and space.
This is how engaging the communityand schools can work! Our
students get to know people who love Jesus, and along the way have
an op-
portunity to improve their grades, attendance, and behavior, and
set goals for a preferred future!
Thank you for your support of our programs at Youth for Christ!
Please continue to pray for these rela-tionships to produce
fruit!
PETE HERNANDEZ Jr.(John B. Allard School)
DAVID GONZALEZ(Elliott High School)
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 2011!
I want to thank you from the bottom of myheart. To those who
helped pay for choir tourso I can go and have a great time. Also
tothose who had faith and guided me in theright direction. To those
who helped megraduate and get my diploma. To all of youwho believed
in me when I was too stupid tobelieve in myself. Thanks for having
patiencewith me and not judging or being quick toturn your back on
me. To thebig homies having faith and keeping me outof trouble.
Pete Hernandez Jr.
I want to thank all of you whoinvested in me either with prayer,
time,finances, or just believing in me. I want tothank God for you
all listening to God andbeing faithful, surely God is going to
re-ward you for your help making me theman in Christ that I am
today. Bless yourkind hearts. Once I was apart of tearingdown the
West side ofModesto. Now with your help I will be apart of
re-building it.Bless you!
David F. Gonzalez
Empowering young people to discover, develop and maximize their
God-
YFC DINNER & AUCTIONMake sure that you get to your calendar
and save the date of
Saturday, November 5th 2011for our annual Youth for Christ
Dinner and Auction.Cant wait to see you there...stay tuned for more
details to come.
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