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History of Life Coaches for Kids®
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 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 may be chosen by boys to find structure and male leadership and crime can become a way to pay for 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.
The vision and mission for Life Coaches was born and in 2000, Life Coaches for Kids became a 501C3 organization.
Children of Prisoners
In 2004, Life Coaches for Kids® began partnering with several ministries that work with children of prisoners. Seventy percent of children with an incarcerated parent end up in prison themselves. Ending the cycle of father absence can also end the cycle of incarceration. Today, almost fifty percent of the young people being mentored by Life Coaches for Kids® have a parent in prison. Current partners in this ministry include Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree Ministries, Bridge Builders for Kids, and Parenting with Purpose.
Life Coaches Leadership
Life Coaches for Kids® is led by an excellent Board of Directors and Glenn Jeffrey continues to volunteer his time as President. Outstanding volunteer Life Coach Directors at each partnering ministry provide the critical day to day leadership for the ministry. Volunteer Coaches are the real heroes, the men and women who give their time and their friendship to young people who desperately need a friend.
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Life coaching is loving
a child until they love themselves.
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Breaking the Cycle of Father Absence
Life Coaches for Kids® is an equipping ministry that partners with churches and faith-based organizations to develop mentoring ministries for children from single parent families. Life Coaches® provides the vision, organization, training and long term support needed to lead effective mentoring ministries that match caring, Christian adults to kids, ages 5-17.
3 WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
1) Become a Life Coach. Regular trainings are held to train Life Coaches and learn more about the ministry of mentoring children.
3) Give a gift to support one-on-one mentoring for an at-risk child.
For more Information,
please contact
Glenn Jeffrey, President
763-475-0290
glennjeffrey@lifecoaches.org
Life Coaches Overseas
Recently Life Coaches® has partnered with Emerging Young Leaders in India and other countries in Asia. This ministry mentors orphaned kids in the south of India devastated by the Tsunami, but is primarily focused on mentoring young men and women ages eighteen to twenty-five to steward their lives in the marketplace, educational, civic and church sectors of Asia for the Kingdom of God.
Watch a video of Life Coaches® in India.
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