Hey Fellow People who care about kids and love God:

Jeff Iosa received this article in an email from The Youth Source (www.thesource4ym.com) about the relationship between local churches and parachurch organizations. It is a great article; very much worth the ten minutes it took me to read it.  Here are a few quotes from the article.

In my years working for Youth for Christ and volunteering with the local church, it was amazing to see the tension and competition that often reared its ugly head between ministries.

If the little white church on the corner doesn’t get along with “Young Life,” it’s just like when the church’s children’s ministry and youth ministry are fighting over use of the fellowship hall. We are all part of the body.

I asked Chap Clark, author of the book Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers, to chime in on the issue. Chap, a Young Life veteran, immediately reacted to the question. “‘Take away’ from the church? Young Life is an expression of the Body of Christ reaching out to the world, and so they are an extension of the Church.”

(Read the rest at The Source.)