Cleveland Leadership Experience (C.L.E.) service trip

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 taking up the challenge by one of the speakers, Te'Sheba Oliver, to pray for city of Cleveland every day for the next week. The attached text message is actually from a student who just started a relationship with Christ at camp this summer!

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. -Mark 10: 45

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. -John 15: 13