April 2025 Prayer Requests

Prayer Laborers,

This month please pray for progress toward 2025 goals. Thank you for interceding on behalf of Courage Youth staff, platforms and, most importantly, Courage Youth learners. 

~ Courage Youth Lead Team, Life Coaches & Management Committee 

CLASS & CLUB

• Goal: Increase learner participation across all sites to 1629.

• Progress: Currently we have 565 learners in our clubs across Courage Youth sites. We are grateful for the enthusiasm and dedication exhibited by our learners towards their personal growth.

• Request: For the Holy Spirit’s intervention in the character transformation of Courage Youth members.

COMPASSION 

• Goal:  Conduct Pregnancy Awareness Campaign.  (CYSA social workers  and the director of a local pregnancy help center go class by class interacting with learners on sexual health and fidelity.)

• Progress:  Thirteen days scheduled between mid-February and the end of March across our schools.

• Requests

  • Pregnancy Awareness Campaign continues to go well in the 2nd Term (April-June).

  • Boys’ Conference, second annual sexual health and wholeness workshop for male learners: 1)  wisdom and creativity for male Life Coaches planning the workshop;  and 2) transformative results when the workshop is conducted in July.

CAREERS

• Goal: Successful rollout of the Life After Matriculation/Job Readiness Training (LAM/JRT) program in Grade 11 and 12 classes across all our high schools.

• Progress: We are pleased to have successfully completed 50% of our 2025 Grade 12 LAM/JRT workshops.

• Request: For this roll out be fruitful, fall on fertile minds, and learners grasp the knowledge they receive.

ADMINISTRATION 

• Goal: Complete Career Liftoff Interest Inventory (CLii) assessments with all Courage Youth learners.  (Completing assessments for all Courage Youth members is a major step up from our grade-focused approach in past years.)

• Progress: We are making good progress toward the goal, working smoothly with Life Coaches at the respective schools.

• Request:  To be able to continue the pace without challenges.

EXPANSION 

• Goal: Establish a Courage Youth Club at a Community Learning Centre (CLC) in East Rand.  (CLCs offer post high school literacy, numeracy and vocational skills primarily for disadvantaged youth.)

• Progress: Initial Courage Youth club engagement planned starting in Term 2.

• Request: For God’s wisdom as Courage Youth expands to our eighth site and this new venue.

 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and 

do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 

Joshua 1:9