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The following Prayer Requests and Praise Reports have been shared with us from our youth, our volunteers, and our community partners. We will update these requests as they are given to us.

Requests on 10/19/2020

We have been doing prayer walks this week and these are some of the requests we have received from our facilities:

• Pray for all the staff at Zeb Pike, Spring Creek and PYC. 
• Prayer for the nine new staff at Zeb Pike.
• Pray the staff gets rest as they are working long (often double) shifts.
• Pray for staff health.
• Pray that the youth will be peaceful.
• Pray for the troubled hearts of the youth. 
• Pray for families of staff and youth.
• Pray that the Christian staff in facilities will be able to be a light in a dark place.

Request/Letter on 9/10/2020

Prayer Requests for a youth in one of our facilities:

Dear youth for christ mentors,
I'm 16 years old and I just got hit with a new very serious charge. I got a lot going on right now. I'm dealing with a lot, and my family is going through a lot too. I don't really got a lot of people for me, and now I'm in a time where I need all the help and support I can get honestly. I never really practiced religion or nothing and wasn't really taught it. But, I am open minded and I know there is a god, my family is muslim. You guys don't know me. I don't know you, but I ask for your support and for you guys to pray for me and my life and my family please. 

Requests on 8/21/2020

Prayer Requests for our Ministry Partners, Soco YFC & Our Volunteers:

• We have been doing prayer walks around each of our facilities during COVID. Please continue to pray for our facilities, their staff, and the youth contained in those faciities. They are experiencing incredible struggles due not only to the pandemic, but to significant transitions of youth and staff!

Requests on 3/12-16/2020

Prayer Requests for our Ministry Partners, Soco YFC & Our Volunteers:

• I have had repeated treatment of my lower back and the pain does not go away. So, I am learning to live with it and grateful for the few yards I can walk.
• ​Please pray for the salvation of my wife, children, and grandchildren!
• Please pray for my daughters and I as we go to San Antonio to see a very special and sick friend over Spring Break. With all that's going on with this virus we really need the Lord's direction about what to do on March 21st. That I will be able to connect with a young man in a facilty before the facilities switch this summer and that I'm listening and following the Lord's leading in the days ahead!
  
• ​Please pray for us, our volunteers, facility staff, and all the youth in our various facilities that we minister in. We are not able to go into facilities as they have all been closed to us /our volunteers and all of our programs have been rescheduled to a later date due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We will be able to call the youth on the phone and minister to them in that way. Please pray we will be able to minister hope and peace to them in the days/weeks ahead.

Requests on 2/24/2020

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• My court on Tuesday, and my family.
• My family, my loved ones and my enemies.
• My court this week and my aunt that has cancer.
• My baby brother R.J got murdered.

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• My brothers and our court dates.
• My family, the ones I’ve hurt, pray for me please.
• Safety, friends, family, help.
• My girlfriend, family, courts, enemies.
• My brother Sean committed suicide.
  
• My mom, brother, dogs, grandma, grandpa, and all of us here in this facility.
  
• Pray for my nephew that is no longer with me and my close friend that lost his life last year and my family and that my next court date to go good and to look over me and my friends and family.
  
• Pray for good vibes and my release date and a good mind set.
  

Requests on 2/14/2020

Prayer Requests For Our Volunteers & Our Ministry:

• A volunteer's dad has three weeks to live.  She will be going back east for a week to visit with her dad and family.  Please keep her family in your prayers as they go through this difficult season.
• A volunteer's brother passed away unexpectedly. He will be visiting with his family this weekend/week.  Please keep him and his family in your prayers.
• A volunteer has two older brothers who are having issues with their hearts.  They may both need pacemakers.  Please pray for their healing.
• A volunteer needs rest and wisdom to balance all the areas of his life.
• A board member’s business partner is recovering from a very serious staff infection that nearly took his life.  He has a tough recovery ahead of him so please pray for him.
• A volunteer is fostering two young men.  They are doing well but still need to be kept in prayer.
• A volunteer has a teenaged daughter that is being a teenager.  Please pray that he can stay in a position of love and have God’s understanding on how to be a great father.
• A volunteer has a brother that is facing surgery.  Pray he can go through it successfully.  She also has a teen age son that is behaving like a teenager.
• A volunteer broke his toe, please pray for quick recovery.
• A volunteer had knee surgery, please pray for quick recovery.
• A staff member's mom is aging quickly.  She is out of the hospital and back home.  Please pray she stays strong till the Lord calls her home.
• Please keep the staff of Zeb Pike and Spring Creek in prayer.  They will be going through a lot of changes this year.
• Please keep the 750+ kids that come into the juvenile justice system in your prayers and that God will use the 35 volunteers in SOCOYFC to bring life and light into their lives.​

Requests on 9/16/2019

Prayer Requests For Our Volunteers:

• Please pray for a friend's husband who had a severe reaction to an antibiotic and can't walk. Please pray for his full recovery!

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Please bless my grandma to heal her and please pray that I may get past this trial in life.
• Please pray for my family, my friends, and everyone I'm with in this building. Please pray for me that everything in all our lives goes the right way and that we're all safe. Thank you for coming here to do all this. Means a lot.
• I want prayer to get out of here and I want to talk to my parents.

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• I want to accept God in my life. I am losing my hope. I would like to move forward and get my life together. I would like for you to pray for me please. I would appreciate it.
• I want to keep my faith in the Lord and keep negativity out of my life. I feel like I am losing my family. I would really appreciate it if you would pray for me and my future.
  
• Pray for me, my family, my girlfriend, and to ask God for forgiveness.
  
• Pray for my family, grandpa, grandma, dad, my girlfriend, and myself. 
  

Requests on 8/27/2019

Prayer Requests For Our Volunteers:

• A volunteer's niece, age 28, just passed away suddenly in the hospital. Please pray for him, his sibling, and all of their family members! Thank you.

Requests on 6/11/2019

Prayer Requests For Our Volunteers:

• Since having PMR last year, which is high inflammatory condition, it can cause problems with the heart.
  My work clinic did an EKG and then sent me to Memorial for EKG, which shows some issues.  An ultrasound at my work showed a leaky valve.  I am waiting to be scheduled with Cardiologist.  My only symptom right now is fatigue and a bit dizzy light headed, through the day off and on.
  Please pray for wisdom for doctor once they eval test 😀and healing. Hopefully since early testing/ diagnosis, it can all be controlled.

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Please pray for ​ several girls at one of our detention facilities. Please pray for their inner peace, for God to be with them and to guide them.  
• Please pray for one of our girls to be recconected with her coach/mentor soon.
  

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• Please pray for my mom's trip to Chicago. Thank you.

Requests on 5/15/2019

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Pray for my Family & why I am here.
• Please pray for me to stay sober when I go home in a week.
  
• Pray for my family and that my court goes well. Thank you!
  
• Pray for my family and my court tommorrow! That everything goes good. Thank you and God bless.
• Pray I get to go home. Thank you.​

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• Pray for this pod and all of the peopl here.
• For my family and for my time to go. For my past and for help to change the way I think and act on things. Thank you.
• Pray for my family.
  

Requests on 3/19/2019

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• I would like for you to pray for me to ask the Lord to help me find myself again. I would also ask for you to pray for the Lord to keep my loved ones safe and healthy.
• I just want you to pray tha God would save my little brother and my mom from my dad's wrath. Please pray for my sobriety to get the strength to get sober and clean.
• Please pray for my great grandparents that they would enjoy the last years of their lives.
  
• Please pray for me to have strength to get sober.
  
• Please pray for my borther to make it home safely from Iraq - he is in the military.
  
• Please pray for my grandfather's health as he is not doing well.
  

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• I would like you to pray that I go to my facility this week and start my time.
• Pray for my faith in the Lord and for my case because they say I might do time until I'm 25. Most meaningful to me are my baby sisters. Please pray for them to be healthy and to not miss me more than they already do.
  
• For my sentencing and for my family to be safe and to stay healthy until I get back home. Please and thank you.
  
• I hope my brother T gets home.
  
• Keep my family healthy.
  
• Pray for my parole violation, my family, and my girlfriend.
• Please pray for my court on the 20th.
  
• Pray for my family.
  
• I have court on Monday, I would like to get out and have a better life.
  
• I want to get out and succeed in my life.
  

Requests on 2/20/2019

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Pray for my mom because she's locked up.
• I have court on March 13th. I need strength and guidance. I don’t want to spend 40 years locked up. I don’t want to lose my family again.
  

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• Keep my family wealthy and good in life!
• Please pray for me to get out on the 27th and do well so I don’t get in anymore trouble.
• Pray for me about my court date on Tuesday and pray that God lets the judge say that I can go home with grandma and help my mom do her classes. I want to get home.
• Pray for my baby's Mom because I want my baby to be healthy.
• To make sure my dog is good. Because I got arrested with him an he’s at my friend’s house.  But I’m not 100% he’s there.
• Court dates and family members.
• Being successful after parole and my loved ones!
•  Thank you for coming to see me! Demons are like my friends.  Please pray for me and better life.
• Please pray my commitment starts soon so I'm not just sitting in here wasting time.  Thank you.
•  Can you please pray for my little sister and her court sentencing.
• Can you please pray for my sentencing and my dad’s kidney transplant to go smooth.
• Please pray for my family, my sister, and court Tuesday the 19th.
• For my court dates and my family.  Please and thank you.
  
  

Requests on 2/14/2019

Prayer Requests For Volunteers:

• Please pray for clarity for me as I am in a challenging season and need direction.
• I am new to SOCO YFC and excited about coach/mentoring youth. Pray for me as I work with youth who are not in the system yet or who are transitioning out into community.
• Please pray for my new job and my family as I have just moved to Colorado Springs and am new to SOCO YFC.
• Please pray for our new volunteers who are going through training.
• Pray for our 40+ volunteers as they reach out to the 1,000+ plus youth who in within the Juvenile Justice System. Thank you! 

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Please pray me as I am back in a facility after being out for a while.
• Please pray for me - I am paroling home to Omaha, NE on February 19th. I want to prove to my parents that I have changed and want them to trust me again.
  

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• My court date is on February 13th, please pray it goes well.
• I need to develop my Bible reading and faith while I'm inside- please pray for me.
  
• Please pray the courts will allow me to stay in the juvenile system. I amd 17 and don't want to be in the adult system!
  

Requests on 2/04/2019

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Please pray for hope and guidance to be more like you in every aspect possible and show me how to be patient.  Thank you for all you have gave me and shown me these past 16 years.  I praise you in the Lord ’s name  – Amen. 
• Dear Father God, I come to you for strength and the ability to move forward.  To be able to forgive myself for my mistakes along with others.  I ask for you to show me the light at the end of the tunnel and to keep me and my family moving forward.  Thank you, Father God for being by my side throughout the struggle.  I love you and thank you in your Father’s name I pray – Amen.
• Pray for me and my brothers to do good so than can be together with me.  For me not to fall into my old habits.  
• To discharge successfully on the 19th of February.  Going back to the same environment could be really hard, but I believe God can guide me though it right now.  I want God to help me stay on the right path and from dangers.  I also thank God for everything he has done for me, bad and good, for I learned a lot through the bad.  
• Pray for my Grandpa Leo, he is on life support because of cancer.  ​

Requests on 1/27/2019

Prayer Requests For Young Men:

• Upcoming court date.
• My family to be ok, and for my mom to come and get me soon and for me to do the right thing when I get out and stay on track.
• To go back home to my mom.  For DHS to give back custody.​
• I wanna fresh start and I wanna get out for my birthday on feb. 8th.  I’ve made mistakes but I’m ready to try and change.
• Can you please pray for my case and for me to change my ways and see life in a different perspective.  And keep my family safe, wealthy and healthy. Amen much love.
• Please pray that my court date goes good and I succeed when I get out.  Also, that I can stay clean when I do get out and don’t fall back into my old habits.
• Dear heavenly father I pray that my family will be good for this year that I’m doing.  And my brother and sisters are good any my homies get out soon and do good and same goes for me Amen.​
• Pray that I get out and do good for my kids.  And my mom also.  To make sure all my homies are gonna be okay and that my wife will always love me. 

Prayer Requests For Young Women:

• Please pray for the Lord's Strength to keep my head up and try not to end up in county.  Soon, I also wanna pray that the Lord watches over my daughter, and the rest of my family.   And last but not least I pray that the Lord helps me make amends to the people that I’ve harmed who I care about.
• Please pray for my mom.  She has lung cancer and she’s dying  She’s my whole world and I need some guidance when she passes.​