S.O.S. - SAVE OUR SONS
The vision of S.O.S. is to provide a safe, profoundly empowering and life changing experience to teens needing to escape the deadly cycle of drugs and alcohol. These vices are only aggravated by peer pressures and a destructive self-image that can only be addressed through a dramatic change in environment and through a challenge to one's life perspective. The foundational principal for SOS is based on the eternal perspective, 'nothing has value but that which you turn over to God - including our lives.
One City will avail a safe and life changing experience for young adults struggling with today's tough issues. By taking them away from the familiar and destructive influences in their daily lives, they will be exposed, instead, to a world where life cannot be taken for granted. With the amazing opportunity to work alongside the people of Uganda, whether it's building, teaching, farming or some other life sustaining project, their perception on the realities of life will take on a whole different perspective.
While there is a great deal of groundwork to cover in Uganda and in the states before we'll be ready to launch SOS, God is opening the doors for this ministry, and we are relying totally on His timing and direction.
This ministry was birthed through the death of our son, Sean, on July 30, 2007. Sean's friends played a very important role in his life. No matter what he was personally going through, helping his friends always took priority. Bringing this ministry full circle to include our sons from here will entrust that we can "Keep the Light On"; keep the light on the memory of all our sons whose battle is over, and on the faces of all those who are still in there fighting, who still have hope.
