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Dear YWAPsters,

We hope your day is filled with lots of opportunities to smile!

Tomorrow, March 1, 2013 is the day of YWAPping. You can support our young people by sharing your time, talents or treasures. For one day, the United Way has sponsored a Spring It On fundraiser. If you could help us that would be COOL BEANS!

"This is the window in our Youth Center.
 The other side of the window is a crawlspace
 where a Homeless Dude currently sleeps.
 We are doing our best to help in even though he won't talk to us.
Children are learning compassion."

Could you forward this email, tell your neighbor, post it at work or church or the post office. You could even tell your dog to spread the YWAPnews through the "Back yard Bark!"

Please Facebook it, Twitter it, Linken it AARP it - yes you can AARP about YWAP!

 Thanks for your time, you are changing the lives of children

in a positive way by who you are.

Please share this link:

http://fundraise.springiton.org/fundraise?fcid=236254

VIDEO:

Click on the link below to see our Video to learn more about how we are helping children in the City and stopping the violence - it will be worth 4 minutes of your time:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1546677139548&set=vb.111808805513470&type=3&theater

Summary of Mission and Activities:

1. To encourage disadvantaged youth to lead purposeful lives by identifying their gifts and using them to participate productively in their communities;
2. To provide disadvantaged youth with leadership activities which foster their knowledge and self-esteem, and empower them to make informed decisions about their lives; and
3. To inform disadvantaged youth about issues such as conflict resolution, abstinence, nonviolence, anti-bullying, community activism, and entrepreneurship.

Our three main methods of accomplishing our mission are:

• The After School/Community Outreach Program (Youth Center);
• The High Adventure Wilderness Leadership Camps (Local camping trips and mountain climbing in the Adirondacks)
• Mentor Force (team members go to WNY school classrooms and assist educators and students in building life skills)

"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

Please visit our United Way Page at:http://fundraise.springiton.org/fundraise?fcid=236254

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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

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

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MentorForce
A Scholarship for a young person to attend a 3 day Wilderness Adventure in the Adirondack Mountains is valued at $185. We are a 501c3 and your donations are tax deductible. You may give online at:
http://www.gofundme.com/73te4
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us. 

Please share this blog, thank you.

Releasing the Spikenard of Your Soul

You may feel like a cactus in a desert canyon keeping people away from your heart with needles. Let your cactus heart flower, just believe it's your season.

Spikenard is precious, valuable, cherished, treasured and very costly.
Your soul is irreplaceable; tender, precious, esteemed and loved.
You are a pearl who was purchased at a great cost.

When the preciousness of your soul is leaked through brokenness, the Repairer of broken walls will heal you. You will become like a well watered garden whose spring never runs dry. You were created  to do more than just live a leaky life. You have been designed to live like a river of free flowing love that breaks through the damns of brokenness. 

Brokenness is part of a regenerating design that brings a greater strength than you could ever imagine. Bitterness is a disease that takes root in the brackishness of a stagnant soul - a lifeless, unmoving pond of self pity. Embracing brokenness will help you resuscitate a soul bereft of compassion.  

There is no canyon of despair where God cannot create awe inspiring love.

If you are struggling, imagine a cocoon where you emerge with wings of freedom.
If life is hard, imagine polishing the brilliance of your diamond like future.
If somebody is irritating you, imagine yourself as an oyster creating a pearl of great price.
If you need to forgive yourself, imagine yourself as a tree letting your leaves fall and new buds appearing in a new spring of your life.
If you feel lonely, imagine being the seed just released from the Farmers hand into the broken soil. Soon you will burst forth into the sunshine as a new sprout.

Will you pour out something valuable on somebody today?
Will you pour your time, talents or treasures
when the world considers your actions wasteful?
When you pour out your soul on somebody,
don't wait for them to be grateful or
pour back into you,
just keep pouring. 

Even Niagara Falls flows on a cold, dark winters night.

The source of the precious spikenard in your soul
is unlimited and unfathomable.
The river of compassion needs to flow
through you to keep love moving.

God is the irrepressible refiller of your soul.
His cup of love never runs dry.

Fill someone's cup of suffering with love,
you will flow in rivers of freedom, just let go.

The fragrance of the spikenard in your soul will
smell like a bouquet of love to the broken soul.

A snow heart pushes it's way up through the frozen ground of a bleak midwinter. Your spring is just around the corner.

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Mark 14:3-9
The Message

3-5 Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper. While he was eating dinner, a woman came up carrying a bottle of very expensive perfume. Opening the bottle, she poured it on his head. Some of the guests became furious among themselves. “That’s criminal! A sheer waste! This perfume could have been sold for well over a year’s wages and handed out to the poor.” They swelled up in anger, nearly bursting with indignation over her.

6-9 But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why are you giving her a hard time? She has just done something wonderfully significant for me. You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives. Whenever you feel like it, you can do something for them. Not so with me. She did what she could when she could—she pre-anointed my body for burial. And you can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she just did is going to be talked about admiringly.”

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"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

Please visit our United Way Page at:http://fundraise.springiton.org/fundraise?fcid=236254

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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

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

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MentorForce
A Scholarship for a young person to attend a 3 day Wilderness Adventure in the Adirondack Mountains is valued at $185. We are a 501c3 and your donations are tax deductible. You may give online at:
http://www.gofundme.com/73te4
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.  

The Ladies from W.A.V.E

The women from W.A.V.E multiply love through one young lady who touches other young hearts.

The following story has many components. I want you to focus on some ladies of action who are changing the world one young person at a time. They are the women from W.A.V.E - "Women Against Violence Everywhere." Some folks talk about stopping violence. These ladies help teach relationship building skills and self esteem development. They help young people form personal foundations that multiply love and servant-hood instead of fear and violence. They are mentioned only briefly. A seed stays briefly under broken dirt and then it grows, Oh! How it grows! Their efforts are causing a ripple effect that will bring a tidal wave of love that washes and restores the broken hearts of young people.

The HOMELESS DUDE Wasn't "HOME"

I took some pizza wrapped in 2 paper plates out to where I thought he was sleeping. I told the young people inside the Youth Center where I was going as I stepped out the side door.

 There is a covered area on the side of the church next to the Youth Center. The homeless dude stacked up some mattresses and box springs for walls. The floor is dirt and the wind is frigid as it blows against the cold concrete.

I called into the darkness to see if he was "home." My callings into the shadowy stillness were met only by the sound of the wind. I left the paper plate covered pizza with a napkin on the barred window sill that serves as his night stand.

 He usually sleeps on top of one mattress with another pulled over his body for insulation.  He's been "evicted" several times and the Police deliver him to a shelter. I don't know why he keeps coming back.

I was my first night back at the Youth Center after a couple of weeks away in heaven - I got married to a wonderful lady who loves God and her neighbors. The first story I heard was about another fight amongst young ladies. It saddens me to hear about people who take the pain that was heaped on their hearts and they enlarge the pain by inflicting wounds on others.

The young people were hungry and they ate mini tacos and waited for pizza. I told them we had to save a few slices for the homeless dude. After dinner, we opened the gym and we were packed until about 9. One of the highlights of the night was the appearance of the ladies from W.A.V.E. They demonstrated commitment and love in action by coming to the Youth Center for an audience of one. All of the girls were absent except for one. They came for the one.

 Imagine what Buffalo would be like if we taught our children how to love their neighbors one neighbor at a time. What if we taught them that each individual is just as important as a group of individuals? In a world where big numbers seem to equal success, the ladies from W.A.V.E. are changing the world one young person at a time - that's a more excellent way.


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

"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.facebook.com/bob.kuebler

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

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MentorForce
A Scholarship for a young person to attend a 3 day Wilderness Adventure in the Adirondack Mountains is valued at $185. We are a 501c3 and your donations are tax deductible. You may give online at: http://www.gofundme.com/73te4 or
 http://fundraise.springiton.org/fundraise?fcid=236254
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.