Who is Surrendered?
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director It is like the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and he shows up each week at church and no one wants to notice. Everyone looks the other way. [...]
What One Earns, One Receives
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director For 36 years a foundational tenet of Youth-Reach is you get what you earn. Like a small microcosm of the way a healthy society ought to work, when [...]
The Final Stretch
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director As we enter the final stretch of 2020 let’s review: We started the year like most others, foolishly welcoming in a new year with no clue how it [...]
A Life Transformed
My name is Trevor Burton, and this is my story. I was adopted at a few days old by loving missionary parents. My parents served in Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and I was constantly [...]
Lessons from Sally
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director We were told to expect a weak Category One storm, and that it was headed to New Orleans…then it was Biloxi, Pascagoula, the state line area, and Dauphin [...]
Who Are You More Like?
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director It was several years ago. I was reading the account in chapter 8 of the Gospel of John that recounts the time when the Pharisees, hoping to trap [...]
Coming Full Circle
By: Curt Williams, Founder & Executive Director Like many of you, I have spent time watching the rioting, looting, arson, and violence that is sweeping many cities with some seriously mixed emotions. On one hand, [...]
The Long Goodbye
When President Ronald Reagan was facing a decline in both his physical and mental health, his devoted wife Nancy called the season “The long goodbye.” It is always painful to watch a loved one decline and face the winter of their life; right now, that season involves me, my older brother and my younger sister as we walk through these long days with my 90-year-old father.
Roughing It
Few experiences are as American as camping. People can take out an RV or stay in a log cabin, but nothing beats encountering the outdoors like setting up camp with tents and poles. Because of COVID-19, off-campus trips have been very limited. Luckily, Youth-Reach knows of a small campground that was only allowing one group to camp at a time.
Our Latest Endeavor >> Honeybees
In the next few months we are going to be launching some new opportunities for our supporters (and new supporters) to partner with Youth-Reach in some interesting ways. After finding a very large and very healthy colony of honeybees on our campus (and interpreting this to be an opportunity) we contacted Pastor Kent Wilson who we know to be a local beekeeper.