Your Easter gift to Breakaway Outreach will help give at-risk children a life-changing, hope-restoring summer camp experience this year, at a very critical time when kids will need to be processing all that has unfolded during this worldwide tragedy.
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Chattanooga Underprivileged Kids to Experience Cherokee Culture
Underprivileged kids from Chattanooga will absorb some intriguing Cherokee culture through food, festival, craft-making, and more!
Breakaway Summer Camp: Fearless
Breakaway's summer camp for children of prisoners, at-risk youth, and disadvantage kids. Our theme this year was "Fearless." Kids learned five daily principles.
5 Tips for Engaging Youth Volunteers
“[The world’s hope] is to rely on youth . . . not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” — U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Today, there are many youth who want to make a difference and serve their community, yet are often overlooked as possible resources in volunteer mobilization. Here are 5 Tips for Engaging Youth Volunteers via VolunteerMatch.org.
CNN: American teenagers embracing “mutant” Christianity
Interesting CNN article on how American teenagers are embracing “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem.
Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on a self-serving strain of “mutant” Christianity.