YL Capernaum Everywhere

A guest post by Lindsay Frail I have been a “typical” leader for 4 years now, and I have seen God’s love so brigh tly through them, through me and for me, it’s been beautiful. A few years ago God gave me a sweet friendship in my friend Brittany , who is on staff with YL Capernaum. I’ve loved seeing her receive God’s love and pour it out on her kids, I’ve loved watching, even going to some clubs and supporting her, it’s been a jo y. I was called to typical kids, she was called to kids with special needs and we supported each other, and that was a good fit. And it was good, until God said He wanted more. Camp time came, and don’t you know that not a single one of my girls signed up. I pushed forms on them for months, and they shot me down for months! Then one day Brittany asked if I wanted to take them as buddies, I thought “sure this would be fun!” I asked them and within 30-minutes of me asking, 6 of my girls had asked their parents and had signed up. So on our way to Capernaum ...

A guest post by Susan Greene A few years ago at a Young Life banquet a friend of mine was telling why his family has supported Young Life for so long. He is a well-known and respected member of our community, and he is a Capernaum parent. In a moment of brutal honesty and great vulnerability he said, “I never would choose to have a son that was handicapped. And I wouldn’t choose to immerse myself in that community voluntarily. But Young Life does. And I am so grateful.” He and his wife would talk about their son as handicapped (not disabled or special needs), because they liked to say that his handiness was barely capped due to his disability.   Whether the parents of our friends are believers or not, they are true saints.   They were not given a choice in choosing the easy or hard road.   For all of us, we choose the easy road knowing that there may be bumps along the way. Yet for the saints that parent our friends in a split second, the hopes and dreams they had ...