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Youth For Christ (YFC) is a worldwide Christian movement working with young people, whose main purpose is evangelism among teenagers. It began informally in New York City in 1940, when Jack Wyrtzen held evangelical Protestant rallies for teenagers. [1] Rallies were held in other U.S. cities during World War II, attracting particularly large ...
The motto of the Girls' Brigade is "Seek, Serve and Follow Christ", and its aim is "to help girls become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and through self-control, reverence and a sense of responsibility to find true enrichment of life." [ 2] Since 1936, the Girls' Brigade has been a founding member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth ...
Formerly called. Campus Crusade for Christ International. Cru (until 2011 known as Campus Crusade for Christ —informally "Campus Crusade" or simply "Crusade"—or CCC) is an interdenominational Christian parachurch organization. [ 1] It was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright.
—BSA Troop 97 [is 1] Columbian Squires is a Catholic boys' Scout-like organization run by the Knights of Columbus. The Squires considers itself to be an athletic team, social club, youth and civic improvement group, management training, civil rights group and spiritual development program. Squires history The Columbian Squires were begun in 1925. In December 2012, the Knights of Columbus was ...
Dec. 7—'It's harder being a teenager these days than when I was growing up' By Ayanna Eckblad Jonathan Dagner, 73, grew up in Albert Lea, attending all of his schooling in the city through high ...
Torrey Johnson. Torrey Maynard Johnson. Torrey Maynard Johnson (March 15, 1909 [1] – May 15, 2002) [2] was a Chicago Baptist who is best remembered as the founder of Youth for Christ in 1944. For a time Johnson had his own local radio program called Songs in the Night, which he later turned over to Billy Graham who was also hired as the first ...
"Youth for Christ (YFC) follows the motto of "Geared to the times, anchored to the Rock" in an attempt to help equip young people to minister to each other." That that is the motto and that is a stated aim may be a fact; that youth for Christ follows that motto or attempts these things is an opinion.
Clark founded the first national church youth organization, Christian Endeavor, the forerunner of the modern denominational "youth fellowship". The society was formed in order to "bring youth to accept Christ and work for Him". The youth were shown that the church cared for young people. The Society enabled youth to express themselves while ...