Hope

Posted by on 9 February 2010 | 0 Comments

A while ago, Loraine Apley wrote in the music journal Rolling Stone that “Hope is something you use to get you through the hopelessness of life.” It’s a pretty dark statement and it’s one I don’t believe.

Instead, I believe in hope.

Here at YFC/Youth Unlimited we see the hope and potential in every young person. Because of that, we believe it is worth giving every iota of our being as youth workers to help them develop that potential. Put quite simply, there are no lost causes as far as we are concerned.

That’s because so many of us have ourselves experienced the turn around in life that comes in meeting God and
finding out that we count, that we are special, that He loved us enough to send His son to die for us. And that means everything!

Hebrews 6:19 tells us that we have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. That’s why when we see a
hurting kid who hates himself, a teen mom who is at the end of her rope, or a young person struggling to find their own identity and making all the mistakes we made, we don’t just see the mess.  We see a life that is beautiful and can be turned around to become a transcendent thing, because we have this hope.

You see, I have hope. I hope you do, too.

Andy Harrington,
Executive Director