After-School
Homework Program
Children ages 4 to 12 are provided with a safe haven where they receive a healthy snack or meal, may participate in praise and worship, and get help with their homework.
Robotics Club
Initiated
as a service project by a group of high school students from St. Mark’s School
of Dallas, the Robotics Club gives children exposure to technology.
Art
Club
The Art Club gives children an outlet to express themselves while learning the fundamentals of art. Nursing homes and prisons receive the art that the children create.
Angelic Praise & Community Choir
Encourages
children to find and develop their voice while learning scriptures and
establishing common ground with other children. To listen to or order our
children’s CD, go to products.
Girls
Mentoring
Girls are provided with mentors who listen to, encourage and guide them through their teen years.
Boys
to Men
Connects boys with men who encourage, challenge, esteem and affirm them in their spiritual, educational and masculine development.
Heart of a Champion
Character Building Program
Using
interactive workbooks with well-known sports figures as examples, the
self-esteem and reading, writing and comprehension level of youth is elevated.
Youth receive their own workbook.
GamePlan
Using
interactive workbooks, youth are encouraged to abstain from behavior that will
short-circuit their long-term goals while elevating their reading, writing and
comprehension level. Youth receive their own workbook.
Violence
Prevention
Using a 10-week curriculum, youth are taught how to deal with anger in productive, non-violent ways. They are also taught the causes, effects and results of violence on society and individuals.
Game Night
Teamwork
and fellowship is stressed as youth play basketball, board games and other
competitive sports.
Readers
Lead, Leaders Read
“It is with books as with men... a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.” Voltaire. An adult facilitated reading club wherein youth are given a mandatory and an elective reading list.
College Preparatory Classes
Assists
youth in planning and preparing to enter community colleges, universities or
trade schools. Services range from tutoring for the TAKS, PSAT and SAT tests as
well as assistance with finding financial aid and scholarships.
Community
Service
YBC children and youth, as well as children, youth and adults from the local community may perform and receive credit for community service as an act of charity, restitution or a Rites of Passage.
El Puente (The Bridge)
Creates
a sense of community among Spanish-speaking adults while teaching them English.
Summer Evangelism, Reading & Life Skills Training Program
On
weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., children receive a morning snack, nutritious
lunch and an afternoon snack. Reading is stressed each day during the summer.
As
pictured here, activities ranging from arts and crafts to Bible study, creative
writing, choir and field trips give children a fun, learning summer that they
will never forget.
Summer
Youth Intern Program
An opportunity for youth to develop leadership skills, grow in grace and develop a social morality. Youth raise support to serve in this program.
Christmas Outreach
In
demonstration of the “free gift” that God has given us through Jesus Christ, we
display compassion by giving each child who participates in YBC a “free gift” at
Christmas. Gifts are also provided for a select number of needy families at
Christmas. See Giving.
© 2005, Youth Believing in Change