Believe In Youth

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"-Mahatma Gandhi

Believe in Youth is all about finding who you really are, your full potential, and what you have to give to this world

What is Our "Why"?

True fulfillment in life comes from more than just having fun or being entertained. True fulfillment comes through working hard to achieve a goal or accomplishment, especially one that benefits or impacts others.

Despite this, in today’s world people have become increasingly self-centered. Often people complain of not having a sense of purpose or belonging, and, sadly, many people, including youth, don’t feel like they have anything to offer to this world or to others. This, in our opinion, leads to discouragement, depression, or loss of happiness.

When we are self-centered and only focus on ourselves it is impossible to find true joy. Believe in Youth focuses on helping youth work hard to contribute their talents, skills, and gifts to make a difference in the world. This helps us focus on people or things besides ourselves, as deeper and lasting happiness comes from serving selflessly.

Life is most meaningful when we contribute to and are an active part of helping others and shaping the world around us, for good.

Believe in Youth focuses on helping Youth reach their limitless potential by creating something bigger than themselves, learning soft skills, working as a team, finding true joy, and learning important life lessons. Youth will work on something larger than themselves. This could be creating a non-profit, running a business, writing a book, etc. The goal is to teach youth how to create something that can outlast them. It should continue impacting the world even if they are no longer around to keep the idea going.

Youth will work as a team to complete projects that they decide, plan, and execute. The projects keep everyone in Believe in Youth together as a team, and fun activities are an addition that helps create camaraderie with others while you are creating something larger than yourself.

Some of the projects that may be worked on could be:

Hosting a dance, blood drive, or fun run
Getting sewing machines to Guatemala
Writing and helping to pass a new law

The projects will be decided on, planned, and executed by the youth. Other projects similar to the ones listed above may be worked on at the same time, as participants are creating something larger than themselves.

The format of a Believe in Youth meeting generally follows this plan:

At the beginning of a Believe in Youth meeting there will be a devotional. The devotional could be about concepts from the recommended content list or simply things the meeting host came up with that is related to the content for the month. The devotional should be focused around helping others reach their full potential. Anyone can volunteer to prepare and present a devotional.
After the devotional youth will work together as a team to decide on a project and then make commitments for what they will do in the upcoming month to make the projects happen.
Everyone in Believe in Youth will have a personal project that they work on. Each meeting will have time to encourage, help, and provide solutions for people with their personal projects. The personal projects are in addition to the group project.
Assign accountability partners. Accountability partners will help keep youth on track throughout the month until the next meeting. They will help youth to get all commitments done.

Each Believe in Youth meeting will be different and unique. This is simply a possible outline.

To maximize the experience of Believe in Youth we encourage all participants to read something from the recommended content list. Each item from the content list teach important life skills.

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