Serve Our Youth Network
Main Office (Pella)
309 Roosevelt
Pella, IA 50219
(641) 620-9037

Des Moines Office
c/o Polk County Youth Services
1548 Hull Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50316
(515) 286-3344 x6818 (#8 after hours)
http://serveouryouth.org

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Serve Our Youth Network This week's prayer update.

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Please pray for one of our mentees who ran away, and still hasn’t been located yet. Pray for safety. Please pray for the families of the kids that
Katie
Katie
HEAVENLY FATHER PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND THIS CHILD. PUT A HEDGE OF PROTECTION AND SAFETY around them where ever they are. May they be found safe.
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Serve Our Youth Network Hope that everybody has a fun and safe 4th of July weekend!

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Serve Our Youth Network Thoughts from a fellow co-laborer working with juvenile offenders.

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From Fuel by Jimmy Larche: Let’s face it. Compassion is sexy today. It’s talked about in every arena from politics to religion. Many churches have
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Serve Our Youth Network The last of the "how mentoring helps" posts.

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From Mentor: Mentors help young people set career goals and start taking steps to realize them. Mentors can use their personal contacts to help
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Serve Our Youth Network Hey we are 10 from having 300 fans, invite your friends to become a fan and put us over the top!

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Serve Our Youth Network A great way to serve kids!

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From “Literacy in Corrections” by Kenneth Mentor, JD, PhD and Molly Wilkenson, PhD …Research consistently demonstrates that quality education is
Pat
Pat
With libraries having to cut their hours due to lack of funds there's need for other sources of reading help for kids. A good contribution to our future generation
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Serve Our Youth Network The second of three posts on "How Mentoring Helps"

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From Mentor: Mentors help improve a young person's self-esteem. Mentors provide support for students trying new behaviors. Youth who meet
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Serve Our Youth Network Interesting information about children of prisoners.

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From the Family and Corrections Network: By Ann Adalist-Estrin Having a parent in prison or jail poses different challenges for the child at each stage of
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Serve Our Youth Network The first of a three part "series"

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From Mentor: Mentors help keep students in school. Students who meet regularly with their mentors are 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of
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Serve Our Youth Network Found an interesting article on discipline.

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From Family Insights: Is punishment really enough when it comes to parenting? We can all agree that punishment is a quick way to get results like
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Serve Our Youth Network From today's AP news wire.

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From AP: Surprising number of teens think they’ll die young CHICAGO (AP) - A surprising number of teenagers—nearly 15 percent—think they're going to
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Serve Our Youth Network Thank you to a couple of camps that partner with us!

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This summer we will be able to send over 20 children to camp, thanks to partnerships with Wildwood Hills Ranch and Lake View Camp. The older children who have
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Serve Our Youth Network Two of our volunteers are going to be honored.

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Two SOY volunteers will receive a Governor’s Volunteer Award. Rich Thomson has been a faithful volunteer at Polk County Youth Services for over three
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Serve Our Youth Network This week's prayer update

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Please pray for the following prayer requests: Pray for a mentee who was in a car accident, and was seriously injured. Pray for her recovery,
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Serve Our Youth Network Shane hit the milestone of being on SOY staff for seven years.

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By Shane Vander Hart Just realized that in midst of working with Bernie and Daryl (Daryl writes our federal grant proposals and is 3 for 3) on a grant we just
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Serve Our Youth Network The Second Chance Juvenile Mentoring Initiative Grant has now been submitted to OJJDP. Please pray for God's favor.

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We are in the process of moving our main office in Pella. Our new mailing address is: 309 Roosevelt Pella, IA 50219 If you’d take note, we’d
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Serve Our Youth Network Hey help put us over 300 fans - suggest us to some friends! Thanks!

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Serve Our Youth Network Our latest prayer update.

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Please pray for the following prayer requests: Randy, one of our Bible discussion group leaders asked for prayer that he would communicate God’s
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Serve Our Youth Network Shane & Bernie are in another grant meeting, grant proposal due 6/15.

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Serve Our Youth Network Interesting study

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From The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society: As a consequence of the epidemic of divorce that has swept the nation in recent decades, millions
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Serve Our Youth Network Interesting survey on teenage spending habits for those of us who parent or work with youth.

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A Seventeen Magazine survey shows how the recession is affecting teenagers. Despite the recession, 75% of teens are receiving the same or more
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Serve Our Youth Network Bible discussion groups @ Polk County Youth Services tomorrow night - (http://serveouryouth.org/opportunities/chaplaincy/) please pray, and contact Shane if you are 21+ and interested in observing one.

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Praying God blesses the leaders and students tomorrow evening.
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Enjoy your night off - you are still planning on sabbatical in June right?
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Rich
I am Shane. Although I have been stopping at the Detention Ctr weekly to see a boy in 400. I am sill working with 2 boys at Youth Homes, one of whom rings the bell tomorrow and will be going home.
Hope all is well.
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Serve Our Youth Network Pray for Shane as he trains Third Reformed Church Children & Youth Ministry volunteers in Pella tonight.

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Serve Our Youth Network Pray for Shane as he has mentor training tonight.

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Serve Our Youth Network Bernie & Shane are in a marathon grant meeting.

Rich
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Mining for money?
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It is a OJJDP Second Chance Juvenile Mentoring Initiative grant, and would expand our capacity to provide aftercare for kids we work with at PCYS (and other facilities).

This is the grant we are working on - http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=47191
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Serve Our Youth Network A slideshow, sponsors, and prize winners.

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We couldn’t have asked for better weather! Here are some pictures from the day: We would like to thank sponsors for making this day
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Serve Our Youth Network Our prayer update for this week.

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Serve Our Youth Network Looking for a speaker this summer? Are you a pastor in need of pulpit supply? Would you like a SOY staff person to come share with your church, organization or civic group?