Youth CANDO! Leadership Inititiative
9th — 12th grade
Youth CANDO! is a youth leadership initiative that utilizes the talents and abilities of teens by developing their leadership and mentoring skills and allowing them to provide constructive fun and loving care for younger children. Teens work alongside adults and take on the responsibility of providing children, ages 5 to 13, with fun-filled structured activities during various fellowship times.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.