Beyond all else, the health and safety of our residents is our top priority. Since 1984, we have cared for over 3,000 boys in an environment that stresses order, cleanliness, structure and compassion.
Oleksandr has been with is almost two years, and we are very encouraged by the amazing progress that he has made. This past Saturday, here on the Youth-Reach campus, we celebrated two milestones in his young life.
In over three and a half decades of ministry, some very real and very predictable patterns have become evident. One consistent pattern is the precipitous drop in giving that we experience every year in January and February.
As I sit down to write this column, we are celebrating my eldest son’s 26th birthday. I suppose that this occasion has me reminiscing and maybe a bit melancholy. As the father of seven, I often find myself lamenting the insanely fast rate at which my kids are growing up.
With the help of some very special people and the holiday support that we received, we were able to provide a Christmas experience for our boys that will be talked about and remembered for decades.
The ongoing challenge for Youth-Reach Houston, that has not changed in over 36 years, is to fund the monthly ongoing expenses that come with providing a full-service, 24-hour a day residential program for troubled boys. To operate in a healthy manner, with neither need nor excess, requires approximately $42,000 per month.
Never one to shy away from a controversial subject, it is time for me to weigh in on a subject that is much in the news and is ripe with misinformation, nonobjective opinions and thinly veiled agendas. The idea of masculinity being toxic is not a mysterious concept.
In the last meeting of the Youth-Reach Houston Board of Directors, plans were laid for several events in 2020 that will promote Youth-Reach across our city to gain both awareness and to introduce our work [...]
There was a time when the Gospel of Jesus Christ was, if not always, followed and widely affirmed in this country. There was a general respect for the Word of God, and prayer at public events was commonplace.
In this past year we put out a call to help us fund a very mundane need. We were faced with the prospect that our old pole barn, which was on the property when we [...]
