LifeCoaches.org
Title
Life Coaches for Kids--Support for Christian Mentoring Ministries
Description
The vision for Life Coaches for Kids™ began in 1998. Glenn Jeffrey left a successful corporate career to pursue new ways to make a difference. He began by researching new understandings and approaches to helping youth at risk.
Research about father absence persuaded him that the most important issue underlying the majority of troubled kids was the voluntary abandonment of children by their fathers. Without caring dads, many kids lacked clear boundaries, effective discipline and healthy male role models. They live with the chronic pain of rejection. Drugs and alcohol are often used in attempts to dull the pain. Gangs are chosen by boys to find structure and male leadership and crime becomes a way to pay for the drugs. Looking for love in all the wrong places for both boys and girls is a way to find some measure of acceptance and love. Too often, the babies that come from these relationships grow up to begin another cycle of father absence.
Finding a way to break this cycle became the mission of Life Coaches. Jeffrey’s business background and a focus on ministry that makes a difference instilled in him a desire to find the most effective way to accomplish this mission. In 1997, he helped launch the faith community’s participation in America’s Promise, a national youth development effort led by General Colin Powell. His research on mentoring during this initiative persuaded him that ‘one to one’ relationships with healthy Christian role models would have the best chance of inspiring a transformational difference in the lives of troubled kids. Lives broken by the voluntary withdrawal of love might respond to the voluntary gift of love.
Contact
- Glenn W Jeffrey
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- Medina MN
- United States 55340
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- +1.9999999999
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