PROGRAMS

  • life-on-life

    Life-on-Life creates opportunities for mentoring among fatherless and under-resourced individuals who meet with a caring Christian adult or a husband-wife team on a regular basis. Mentoring also happens occasionally through activities such as athletic coaching, tutoring, and bike repair.

  • hype remix

    Hype Remix is a group mentoring program where high school teens experience God in the urban context. Activities revolve around Bible discussions but also include small groups, open gym basketball, board games, retreats, KAA Summer Camp, fishing trips, and other relationship-building activities.

  • the rock

    The Rock is a basketball program for urban teens that meets on Monday nights. Activities include open gym basketball, Bible discussions, prayer, and, on occasion, basketball leagues and tournaments.

  • reset

    Reset is a two-year residential mentoring program that equips fatherless young adults with the spiritual, emotional, relational, educational, and economic tools to reset their lives, challenging and teaching them to grow spiritually and become emotionally and financially stable.

  • Urban Transformation Ministries Institute

    Urban Transformation Ministries Institute equips the church to minister to the fatherless and urban poor through training workshops, seminars, college-level classes, internships, consulting, and weekend and week-long urban immersion trips to Grand Rapids's urban neighborhoods.

  • professional counseling

    Professional Counseling offers staff, volunteers, and students who struggle with trauma or other mental health issues on a limited, as-needed basis.