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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Presenting life options to urban youth
Programs: Presenting the gospel of jesus christ to urban youth in san diego county
weekly program:uyc supports student-initiated, student led faith clubs that take place at over 90 public middle and high schools in san diego county, serving physical and spiritual food every week. This is made possible by our collaborative of 56 local churches that work alongside student leaders each week.
project 25:students from 50 middle and high school clubs performed over 30,000 hours of volunteer service to the san diego community. We challenged them to read the parable of the talents in matt. 25. They prayerfully identified a need in their school, city, or world that they wanted to meet in the name of jesus. Then, they made a short video giving an account of how they put the funds to work on behalf of others. We hosted all clubs at city view church for a red carpet awards celebration. Judges awarded trophies to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place projects that made the most incredible impact with their resources. Students were involved in such projects as purchasing the freedom of slaves in sudan, drilling fresh water wells in developing countries, designing an anti-bullying mural at a school where bullying caused a suicide, feeding the homeless, sharing the good news about jesus with friends, cleaning up beaches, and other meaningful outreach events for the community.