Prayer Walk - June 2nd, 2007 at MLK jr, Jr High School
Invitation to the Initial LightHouse Prayer Walk
On Saturday morning, June 2nd from 8:30 to 10:30, we will prayer walk the campus of Martin Luther King Jr. JHS located at 3051 Fairfield St. Sacramento, CA 95815.
The morning shapes up this way:
Coffee, juice and muffins
· Participate in a brief orientation about LightHouse
· Break up into two’s for prayer over the campus, its principal and assistant principals, teachers, other staff personnel, youth attending MLK and their families
· Summarize our collective impressions after praying
· Closing prayers
On behalf of those involved with LightHouse, thank you for considering this prayer walk. We hope you are able to join us in prayer on June 2nd. Please RSVP to bcoibion@surewest.net if you plan to attend.
Bill Coibion
Vision:
LightHouse expects to see at-risk, fatherless young men prepared for life, becoming leaders in their community and inspiring others to follow in their footsteps.
Mission:
LightHouse will tutor, encourage, train and mentor these young men through a family environment of safety, acceptance and assurance that we’re not going to abandon them. Starting in 7th grade, young men, along with their mentors, will form a pseudo family, which will remain intact through high school graduation and beyond. LightHouse intends to provide some direct funding, develop access to funds and provide guidance to support those young men who their desire to further their education. LightHouse will implement activities to encourage more parental involvement with their sons and MLK JHS.
LightHouse "helping young men prepare for life"
LightHouse is a concept inspired by God through William H. Coibion Jr. and Samuel E. Harris, principal of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. JHS (“
MLK”).
MLK, located in Del Paso Heights, is one of seven JHS in Sacramento’s
Grant Joint Union High School District.
MLK has vast racial diversity, with students from over thirty-two nations represented.
Poverty is the largest predictor of child abuse and neglect. Children in families with annual incomes below $15,000 are 22 times more likely to be abused or neglected than children in families with annual incomes $30,000 or more. It has been reported that 90% of children raised in extreme poverty will remain in poverty the remainder of their life.
Estimated annual MLK family household income is $13,000, which is extreme poverty in this nation.
Up to 90% of the students attending MLK are fatherless and suffer from abandonment, abuse, gang intimidation, drugs and other substance abuse.
72% of the population says fatherlessness is the most significant family or social problem facing America and 90% of Americans agree that “fathers make a unique contribution to children’s lives”, according to a Gallup Poll.
Approximately 38% of young people, 18 or younger, are living in a home without their
biological father.
It is further estimated that another 20% of those same aged youth have a dad but he in not engaged in their life.
70% or more of the adults in prison today came from being raised fatherless. Fatherless children are twice as likely to: drop out of school, have lower GPAs, lower college aspirations, and poorer attendance records than children living with two parents.
To learn more about the
Vision and
Mission of
LightHouse,
click here to Freedom Hall.
. . . "helping young men prepare for life"
