The Chapel Creates a Bright Spot

Dear Chapel Family,

I am writing to you as the Director of Youth With A Purpose to express our gratitude for allowing God to bless us through your Thanksgiving Offering. The timeliness of your gift was truly divinely orchestrated.

At the time of your offering, we stood at the financial Red Sea. We were expecting money from several organizations and the money was delayed. We have 2 corporate bank accounts, one had a balance of zero dollars and the other had a balance of negative thirty seven dollars. Yes, we were in front of the Red Sea financially. To put it another way, we weren’t just standing in front of the Red Sea, it seemed like we were back pedaling toward the Egyptian Army.

I was on Day 7 of a 21 Day Fast. I have a Fasting Journal written by Jentezen Franklin and the Prayer Focus of that day was Finances and Prosperity. On that day I received an email from Daryl Largis that said in part:

“we have included Youth With A Purpose as one of the ministries included in this year's special Thanksgiving offering. The other ministries are in Niagara Falls which is also a desperate place for the gospel.  As such, I was wondering if there is a convenient time for me to get the check to you. I can come your way or if you are in the neighborhood you could stop by my office.”

(Please note: We will stand with you as we fast and invite you to join us as we fast.

If you want to know more about fasting, we love to teach!)

I cried and I’m doing it again now as I write. Our needs were urgent as we serve thousands of young people every year and we had lost a major funding source. We believe that God wants us to remain serving his children. We have seen many ministries come into the City of Buffalo and do beautiful works of His mercy and grace and then they leave. We are called to be “fishers of men” but sometimes we use a method called “catch and release.” We go into a neighborhood, serve the people and then leave them vacant without any continuing support. Sometimes I wonder if we have actually made things worse than before we came and served. Luke says it this way:

 Luke 11:24-26 The Message "When a corrupting spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn't find anyone, it says, 'I'll go back to my old haunt.' On return, it finds the person swept and dusted, but vacant. It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits dirtier than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse than if he'd never gotten cleaned up in the first place."

WE NEED TO BE JESUS IN THE CITY PERMANENTLY!

Please contact us if you would like to know how to get involved or what to pray for. Here is a copy of our Bright Spot Report that will give you a little more insight for your prayers. Thank you. Jesus loves you and so do we.

You'll see God's smile and celebrate, finding yourself set right with God. You'll sing God's praises to everyone you meet, testifying, 'I messed up my life— and let me tell you, it wasn't worth it. But God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I'm alive again! Once more I see the light!'
Job 33:25-27

 

THE YWAP HOPE TRUST - RESIDUAL GIVING

If you want to see your name 

etched into concrete commemorating your generosity,

you will not want to read this letter.

This is a letter for generous people who would like to give

and hear the echoes of change in the hearts of children.  

• Your giving will put a dent in the drug pusher's profit.  
• Your giving will silence verbal, emotional and physical abuse. 
• Your giving will create a safe space for children to feel valued. 
• Your giving will give children an opportunity to walk away from gangs.
• Your giving will create businesses through the YWAP Entrepreneurial Incubation Program.
• Your giving will take guns out of children's hands.
• Your giving will help teach young people how to form healthy relationships.
• Your giving will help children learn how to climb the mountains of life.
• Your giving will never stop giving; it will be multiplied, duplicated and will become residual.

As you fill the heart of a child with opportunity, 

that child's heart overflows with contagiousness 

that spills into the hearts of more children.

What does YWAP do?

• A Community Outreach/After School Program 5 days a week year round.
• We serve about 40 healthy snacks and hot dinners 5 days a week.(approx. 7,000/yr)
• Our Relationship Mentoring Program reaches 100's of students in class during the school day. All aspects of relationship building are covered in including: suicide, bullying, business creation, respect for authority, self accountability, discipline and more. Our goal is to be in every Buffalo School.
• The Wilderness Adventure Program takes young people into the Adirondack Mountains. We teach life survival skills that help them climb the mountains of life.
• YWAP Leadership Camps are designed as retreats that promote healing and understanding.

Our Youth Center has only had 8 people work in our kitchen and 3 of those people have had family members murdered by a bullet to the head. We are located in one of the poorest and most dangerous sections of Buffalo. All of the families who live here are at risk. We need your help.

Through your giving, you will promote healing, understanding and business creation that will be contagious and residual. We are asking you to help support Youth With A Purpose financially. All one time gifts, monthly support and Program Sponsorships will be residual because they keep creating more opportunities for young people to grow.

We are asking for your help. 

Thank you for your Residual Giving.

 Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

 http://www.gofundme.com/73te4

http://www.facebook.com/bob.kuebler

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-With-A-Purpose-Inc/111808805513470

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.   

Youth With A Purpose Inc is a 501c3.

Your donations are tax deductible and will help build character in young people.

THE YWAP HOPE TRUST - RESIDUAL GIVING

If you want to see your name 

etched into concrete commemorating your generosity,

you will not want to read this letter.

This is a letter for generous people who would like to give

and hear the echoes of change in the hearts of children.  

• Your giving will put a dent in the drug pusher's profit.  
• Your giving will silence verbal, emotional and physical abuse. 
• Your giving will create a safe space for children to feel valued. 
• Your giving will give children an opportunity to walk away from gangs.
• Your giving will create businesses through the YWAP Entrepreneurial Incubation Program.
• Your giving will take guns out of children's hands.
• Your giving will help teach young people how to form healthy relationships.
• Your giving will help children learn how to climb the mountains of life.
• Your giving will never stop giving; it will be multiplied, duplicated and will become residual.

As you fill the heart of a child with opportunity, 

that child's heart overflows with contagiousness 

that spills into the hearts of more children.

What does YWAP do?

• A Community Outreach/After School Program 5 days a week year round.
• We serve about 40 healthy snacks and hot dinners 5 days a week.(approx. 7,000/yr)
• Our Relationship Mentoring Program reaches 100's of students in class during the school day. All aspects of relationship building are covered in including: suicide, bullying, business creation, respect for authority, self accountability, discipline and more. Our goal is to be in every Buffalo School.
• The Wilderness Adventure Program takes young people into the Adirondack Mountains. We teach life survival skills that help them climb the mountains of life.
• YWAP Leadership Camps are designed as retreats that promote healing and understanding.

Our Youth Center has only had 8 people work in our kitchen and 3 of those people have had family members murdered by a bullet to the head. We are located in one of the poorest and most dangerous sections of Buffalo. All of the families who live here are at risk. We need your help.

Through your giving, you will promote healing, understanding and business creation that will be contagious and residual. We are asking you to help support Youth With A Purpose financially. All one time gifts, monthly support and Program Sponsorships will be residual because they keep creating more opportunities for young people to grow.

We are asking for your help. 

Thank you for your Residual Giving.

 Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

 

"All Children Are Gifted" 

 http://www.gofundme.com/73te4

http://www.facebook.com/bob.kuebler

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-With-A-Purpose-Inc/111808805513470

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.   

Youth With A Purpose Inc is a 501c3.

Your donations are tax deductible and will help build character in young people.

The YWAP Hope Trust - HOW TO BE HEALED

This is the Relationship Tree.Two trees grew separately from the ground and connected about 15 feet off the ground. Then they separated and grew into the heavens. When two become one, they are stronger and still continue with their individual growth. When giving and receiving become one in God's spaciousness, there is healing.

Today is Day 6 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

How to be Healed

 There are times in life when we do not feel like giving. We may be in a valley season of deep pain caused by depression, death, disease or divorce. It is not easy to stand during a tsunami of contrary winds. Curled into a protective fetal position, we try to escape the pain. Giving may be the last thing on our minds. We feel empty, How can we give out of our emptiness?

When all of the leaves have left the tree, it would appear that the tree has nothing left to give. A tree never stops giving, The leaves may be gone for a season but the branches still give a safe resting place for the critters.

There are several things that can bring comfort during the storm. Friends who listen with their hearts are invaluable. Counselors and support groups can be safe havens that create safe places to vent and cry. Surrendering your weakness to God is the best place to start. Give yourself permission to feel frail and take a deep breath. This too shall pass, there are better days ahead. In a minute, I'm going to give you something that you may not have heard before. But first, let's look at another tree picture.

The rings on a tree will tell you how old it is. An old tree has to weather many storms. It's roots stretch deep to form an anchor in the earth. The circles represent the years of life. Sometimes we feel like we are going in circles. Change your perspective, weathered storms create circles of life that give seasons of productivity.

The keyword that will help you create healing for yourself and others is spacious. Pain is localized, God's spaciousness is infinite. It's another matter of perspective. When you feel broken, imagine a wave breaking in on the oceans shore. The breaking wave recedes back into the unlimited buoyancy of the entire ocean. 

Psalm 18:19 "He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me."

Psalm 31:8 "You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place."  

Psalm 104:25-27 "There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there. All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time."

Spaciousness

 The current event of painfulness does not define your whole life.The pain is only a small snippet of time in your life compared to the larger picture. One event in your life does not define your life. If you love somebody, you love them over the spaciousness of their whole life. You don't love the bad things that happened to them but you just believe that God works everything, the good and the bad, into His greater purpose. 

 

When you are in the darkness, focus on one tiny light at a time. Let the tiny light be the beginning of your victory story. Let the tiny light be your testimony of overcoming your adversity. This is where faith comes in. You cannot develop faith unless you are tested. Your faith muscle needs to be broken down before it can be built up into a stronger faith. This is a natural process in God's kingdom of spaciousness. 

Fasting

 Ask someone to send out prayer requests for fasting and prayer. There is power when people will humble themselves and pray. I'm asking you to give of yourself to create a hunger and thirst for more of God as you seek His mercy and grace to be showered upon someone who needs healing. Please consider fasting as a three-fold fold cord that will: deepen your relationship with God, defeat destructive powers and principalities and open the floodgates of heaven with immeasurable blessings.

Joel 1:14 New King James Version (NKJV)

14 Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the LORD your God,
And cry out to the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 The Message (MSG)

12 By yourself you're unprotected.
With a friend you can face the worst.
Can you round up a third?
A three-stranded rope isn't easily snapped.

 Ps 27:13-14 I am still confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. 

Fervent Diligence

When you are desperate for healing, find a way to give an opportunity for someone to pray and fast for you. You will release a healing flow of God's grace and mercy that will become reciprocal. I do not know what healing is, only God does. He will reward your faithful and fervent diligence as you hunger and thirst for the spaciousness of His love.

 Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

 

"All Children Are Gifted" 

 http://www.gofundme.com/73te4

http://www.facebook.com/bob.kuebler

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-With-A-Purpose-Inc/111808805513470

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.   

Youth With A Purpose Inc is a 501c3.

Your donations are tax deductible and will help build character in young people.