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LifeWise Academy is an interdenominational American educational program founded in 2018 as a free program that provides Bible education for public school students during school hours under released time laws. [1] LifeWise Academy states that it is aligned "with historic, orthodox Christian beliefs as expressed in the Nicene Creed." [2]
Adult mentors are usually unrelated to the child or teen and work as volunteers through a community-, school-, or church-based social service program. The goal of youth mentoring programs is to improve the well-being of the child by providing a role model that can support the child academically, socially and/or personally. This goal can be ...
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 ]
Accelerated Christian Education (also known as School of Tomorrow) is an American company which produces the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE, styled by the company as A.C.E.) school curriculum structured and based around a literal interpretation of the Bible and which teaches other academic subjects from a Protestant fundamentalist or conservative evangelical standpoint.
Teen Talking Circles, formerly known as The Daughters Sisters Project, is a nonprofit organization co-founded by Linda Wolf and K. Wind Hughes in 1993 in Washington state, and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1997. The name was changed to Teen Talking Circles in 2001.
Learning for Life (LFL) is a United States school and work-site based youth program that is an affiliate of Scouting America.It utilizes programs designed for schools and community-based organizations that are designed to prepare youth for the complexities of contemporary society and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, and self-esteem, and for careers.
Teen Challenge was founded in 1961 by David Wilkerson, an Assemblies of God pastor who left a rural Pennsylvania church to work on the street among teenage gang members and socially marginalized people in New York City and who, perhaps, is best known for later authoring The Cross and the Switchblade and founding Times Square Church.
Alpha originated in 1977 with the work of Charles Marnham, a curate at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), a parish of the Church of England in London. [4] It started as a course for church members regarding the basics of beliefs commonly held by many believers in Christ, but then began to be used as an introduction for those interested in the faith.