You Can Be the Love That Changes a Child's Life - Gary Wilkerson Podcast - 063

About this sermon

World Challenge’s partners in Texas are reaching out to at-risk youth to help them find their heavenly Father. Father’s Love ministers to children from low-income, often single-parent households and offers them schoolwork support and a safe environment where they can play sports and have fun. Today, they share their heart for the work and how God is redeeming the next generation. KEY QUESTIONS FROM THE PODCAST • What is Father’s Love ministry in Jacksonville, Texas? • How has showing God’s love to children changed the trajectory of their lives? • How would you encourage a parent who is feeling discouraged by their child’s choices? • How advice would you give to other youth ministers and youth pastors? NOTABLE QUOTES FROM THE PODCAST God really has made me realize and encouraged me that that's what ministry is. It's about love and relationships. – Melissa Wagner You really have to break down those walls and build trust and that doesn't happen overnight, especially with a young person who's coming from an abusive background. Just be faithful, continue to reach out to them and continue to try to love unconditionally. – Melissa Wagner There are times when a kid's going to make really bad decisions, have bad friends... Yet that doesn't mean that God is not looking, not watching; he's not ignoring the problem… he's always, always, always longing for them to come to him, and he's always going after them, and he won't ever stop going after them despite their bad decisions. – Brett Wagner ABOUT FATHER’S LOVE Father’s Love is an outreach to at-risk youth based in Jacksonville, Texas (with former outreaches in Pennsylvania and Virginia). The ministry reaches impoverished youngsters, ages 10 to 19, with the message of God’s enduring love for them. The approach at Father’s Love is simple: No matter the situation, they can know the love of their heavenly Father and be assured God has a special plan for their life. Web: https://www.fathersloveministry.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fatherslovejville Instagram: https://instagram.com/fatherslovejacksonville/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1bt9KnfyuSDIlpJnGDU5fw ABOUT GARY WILKERSON Gary Wilkerson is the President of World Challenge, an international mission organization that was founded by his father, David Wilkerson. He is also the Founding Pastor of The Springs Church, which he launched in 2009 with a handful of people. He has traveled nationally and internationally at conferences and conducted mission ventures such as church planting, starting orphanages, clinics, feeding programs among the poorest of the poor and the most unreached people of the earth. Gary and his wife Kelly have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pastorgarywilkerson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/garywilkerson

Topics

• Love & Compassion
• Parenting