Young Life Cleveland West

Working alongside a local church to clean a neighborhood home This year, the local YL staff organized the first local discipleship trip in our region, the Cleveland Leadership Experience. Some of our goals in creating this were to: Serve local ministry partners in the city of Cleveland. Give students an opportunity to learn to lead and grow in Christ through service. Provide vision for students to stay local and make an impact in their city during and after their high school years. Create space for students to experience a different environment and to learn from leaders of diverse environmental and ethnic                                                                                    backgrounds. A text a leader received from a student two days later. All this was accomplished and more as we taught students the value of service and sacrifice and then put those values and our faith into action! Our friends grew immensely in this short overnight trip together and are

Bay and Rocky River H.S. on the way to Saranac Lake Fairview H.S. at Lake Champion Lakewood H.S. at Timber Wolf Lake Young Life camp can often feel like the finish line of a year of running hard after students. And, in a lot of ways, camp does demonstrate the results of months of showing up at the school, putting on weekly clubs, taking kids to get food, playing games, and having leaders feel like they're starting their own mulching business to get every last kid on that bus to camp. But, as is often true, things looks a lot different when viewed from a spiritual perspective. For example, camp trips begin to look a lot more like the starting line than the finish line. For many of the 90+ students we took to camp this summer, they unplugged from their phones for the first time in a long time (something parents often get excited about). They talked about very real things and about Jesus with their friends every day for an entire week for the first time. Some student