Thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day to catch up with YOKE and to keep us in your prayers. We’re still hard at work recruiting and training volunteers to join us in mission, connecting with middle school students to help them discover their identity and purpose in Christ, and enriching our local schools. We’re so grateful to all of you who help make that vision a reality.
YOKE is also growing in some new and exciting ways! We’ve welcomed two new YOKE babies in the last couple of months. On September 16, Program Director Madjoel Douglass and his wife Maria welcomed their firstborn, a son they named Noël Slava (Slava is Russian for “Glory” and reflects Maria’s heritage).
Bridget Beam, former YOKE Kid and YOKE Folk and current area director in Knox County, and her husband Nick, welcomed their second child on October 1, a daughter they named Freya – a traditional Norse name that means “Noble Lady.” Kaiah, a fixture at the YOKE House, is excited to be a big sister, too.
Psalm 127 says that children are a gift from the Lord and compares them to arrows in the hand of a skilled warrior. Think about the significance of that. An arrow in the hand of a skilled warrior can change the course of a battle, an army, a nation, even the world. What potential these two little ones contain! Join us in rejoicing for these new gifts to the YOKE family and in prayer for these new, young parents as they raise the next generation of YOKE Kids!