City Life Timeline
The City Life core ministry model has its roots in a rich history of YFC desiring to reach high-risk youth. Lifeline ministries launched this passion through camps and trips, but when the model evolved to a year round ministry it was called Youth Guidance. Youth Guidance focused primarily on youth in systems and staff saw there was the need to develop a ministry model that worked with young people in urban communities before they might become incarcerated. Urban Ministries and then City Life was born!
- 1944 - Youth for Christ Begins
- 1948 - Saturday Night Youth Rallies Begin
- 1958 - Bible Clubs Begin
- 1963 - Lifeline Summer Camps Begin
- 1965 - Lifeline Ministries Begin Year-round
- 1972 - First Youth Guidance Operations Manual
- 1977 - First National Urban Division Field Staff Director Appointed
- 1999 - Urban Ministries name changed to City Life