Teen Parents & Mentor Moms

The YFC Mentor Moms/Teen Parents ministry connects trained adults with pregnant girls and teenage parents in programs designed to help them make good choices and establish a solid foundation, not only in their lives, but also in the lives of their babies.  Like every ministry of YFC, Teen Parents seeks to engage these young people wherever they are found as life-long followers of Jesus Christ.  The rate of pregnancy among American teens is almost twice that of English and nearly four times that of French teenagers (Singh and Darroch, 2000).  Pregnancy is only one aspect of the situation.  The majority of the teens will go through with their pregnancy and choose to be the primary caregiver.  We must come along side them and assist them to become the best moms and dads that they can.  In 2001 there were 175 ministry sites throughout the United States. Thousands of teenage parents are participating in local ministries.

Here in Lane County our Mentor Moms program has teamed up with Young Life's teen parent program called Young Lives.  Together the program is called Young Lives and Mentor Moms (YLAMM).  Unfortunately there is a great need in our community for this type of ministry but through YLAMM we are seeing a number of young moms and moms-to-be receive the love and encouragement needed during this testing time in their lives.