Victory Update

Go Tell the Secret!

As Victory Academy opens this school year, there is one thing that bothers me. For twenty years it seems that Victory has been a secret. Some things are so valuable that they shouldn't be kept secret. Victory isn't valuable because of any one person, but because God has prepared and brought literally hundreds of people together to make Victory what it is today. Staff members, volunteers, and donors have sacrificially worked together to build a ministry that produces eternal fruit. This should not be kept a secret.

What do you get when you put together a staff with years of experience working with troubled teens a program that has been developed over the last twenty years and an excellent 120 acre facility that is away from many of our cultures problems? That is victory Academy for boys! We have fantastic program for reaching at-risk teen boys, and people need to know about it. Victory is not a band-aid for bad behavior. Victory is about heart surgery; real inner-man change.

Victory Academy is valuable because our program answers the need of struggling teens and their parents. As I have looked over my ten years here and considered the almost one hundred teens and families we have helped, I was able to name many whose lives were changed right here at Victory. Overwhelmingly our alumni have graduated from high school and have gone on to serve in our military and law enforcement. Some have gone on to further their education at college. A few have gone to Bible college. One is finishing up graduate school to become a missionary pastor. Another is a youth pastor in Michigan. Dads have changed from passive to active leaders in their families. Families have seen the principles of God’s work In their homes. They have seen relationships restored. Victory Academy works. Victory works because of God’s Spirit working through God’s Word to change hearts.

There are other schools that will work with a troubled teen, but in my research, I found none that are doing the depth of work with the parents that Victory is doing. Foundationally we believe that parents are the key to long-term change and growth for a boy. If Dad and Mom are strengthened and encouraged in parenting, our programs impact will be family-wide and influential in the next generation (look at Psalm 78:1-8). Our parent program does that work of encouraging and strengthening the parents, while helping them get back to the place of influence for God in the lives of their children.

There are families in every church and neighborhood that could benefit from our program. Many teens and their parents are struggling with all sorts of problems, and Victory is all about providing hope and biblical counsel to these families. Every time I poll an audience, there is a overwhelming response that they know of teens that need our program. Think for a moment, whom do you know that would benefit from our program?

Victory Academy is open, ready, and able to help struggling teens and their parents, so go tell the secret! Let’s see what God will do!