LIFE AND DEATH

Human life is precious because we are made in the image of God. Biblically speaking, we are supernatural beings privileged with the ability to procreate. Those procreated beings are called children, deemed the most precious of all life. Losing a child is horrific. I know parents who lost children 30 or 40 years earlier who still cannot talk about it without crying. God’s design is for children to outlive their parents, so what can we do? 

One of the most effective means to reduce and even eliminate preventable teen deaths are school chaplains. Depending on where you live, the top cause of teen death is accidents, suicide, homicide, or substance abuse, all largely preventable. 

Trained in personality risk assessment, chaplains can observe youth from a different perspective than parents and even teachers. Through student interaction, chaplains become experts on their school’s culture. They know whose selling and using drugs, drinking, having sex, and bullying. 

Chaplains routinely greet students looking for unique opportunities to engage, which is always at the student’s discretion. They coach young people to make quality life decisions helping them discover their God-given purpose and destiny. Once purpose is discovered, young people can adequately judge their actions as “on purpose” or “off purpose.” Young people naturally reject being told what to do. Still, when that same person realizes that a decision is in their best interest by “being on purpose,” they have conviction and even passion. 

Your prayers and financial support provide schools with chaplains and save lives, not abstractly but in actual body counts. For the last 20 years, no school with a Mission Generation trained chaplain has reported a teen suicide after two years or more in the program. Additionally, all forms of teen death are reduced because delinquent behavior is significantly reduced or stopped when young people discover their God-given purpose. 

Mission Generation founded the National School Chaplain Association to bring these life-saving strategies to U.S. schools. Thank you for your continued prayer and support; remember that between now and May 31st, every dollar is matched, doubling your gift’s impact.

Kingdom and Country,

Rocky J Malloy

CEO
P.O. Box 720746
Norman OK 73070-4574

Mobile: 858.472.6084
Website:  https://nationalschoolchaplainassociation.org/