Kid Brothers of St. Frank supported the following ministries for 2006:

ArtZtudio
ArtZtudio is part of Open Door Fellowship Church, a ministry located in urban Denver. Their purpose is to embrace needy and broken people. ArtZtudio was founded in 2003 and is located in a drop in center where homeless kids and "near" homeless kids can drop by. They serve lunch and offer a place for the kids to hang out, as well as a clothing bank and resource center. Mentoring and bible studies are an active part of ArtZtudio. Volunteers make themselves available to the kids to mentor, take them to the doctor, job interviews, etc.

Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap is a Children's Services Organization in Vancouver, Washington. Bridge the Gap provides opportunities for foster children. They provide short term and long term services for children ages 0 to 18. Through this program, foster parents are able to get assistance with clothing, school supplies and other necessities for children new to foster care. They also provide assistance to the foster parents to allow the children to participate in extra curricular activities, such as sports, music and art lessons, and other after school and summer activities.

The Christian Center of Anadarko
The Christian Center of Anadarko is a community outreach center located in Anadarko, Oklahoma. They currently run an after school program with 25 to 40 kids attending. Their outreach ministries include the following: youth media projects, youth mentoring programs, a soup kitchen that serves six meals a week, monthly food distributions, an emergency food pantry and a clothing closet.

Hope in Transit
Dave and Lisa Sprinkle, formerly with the Legacy Traveling School have branched out on their own to start Hope in Transit. Hope in Transit is designed to bring love and hope to young people on the reservations in the southwest using music as a vehicle to minister to spiritual, emotional, physical, and social needs. Dave and Lisa travel in a monthly cycle to three different locations on the Navajo and White Mountain Apache Reservations teaching the students keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, recorder, music theory, and recording technologies. Because they are able to spend quality time with the students at each location, they have become "voluntary accountability partners" for the kids, encouraging them to make good decisions, to work and study hard, and ultimately be who they were created to be.

Ironwood Coffee House Project
Dave & Pam Innerebner run the Ironwood Coffee House. They work on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Hayward, Wisconsin. They currently have a community center where the older teens and young adults on the rez come and hang out. They strive to live out the love of Christ by just being available and "living life" with the people on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation.

Joy Ranch
Located in Hillsville, Virginia, Joy Ranch is a residential home for troubled children in a Christ-centered family environment. The children that come to Joy Ranch come from broken homes; some are abused and neglected and some are there because the family is in a crisis situation. They provide therapeutic recreational activities for the children in their care.

Mission Year
LOVE GOD / LOVE PEOPLE // NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
Mission Year is a dynamic movement of believers dedicated to building the Kingdom of God through sacrificial service. Every day our Team Members put their faith into action in inner-city neighborhoods across the nation, providing a powerful combination of community service and Christian love. They tutor, build, nurture, repair, encourage, assist, organize, teach, learn from, listen to, and pray with all kinds of people, all in the name of Jesus. It is a radical opportunity for Christian young people to put into practice the simplest and most important commandment of Jesus: "Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself." By living and working for a year in a poor, urban neighborhood, partnering with a local church, volunteering at a social service agency, and spending time with neighbors, Mission Year team members effectively impact their communities while catching a deeper vision for what the Kingdom of God is like.

New Directions
New Directions, located in Greenfield, Ohio is a Christian community youth ministry designed to reach out to students in grades 7 through 12. With a full-time youth minister on staff, New Directions is able to reach out to all of the youth in the area. They have an informal game night, a coffeehouse, a high energy worship night with music and a message, weekly Bible studies, small groups, summer camp and mission trips.

One Way Farm Children's Home
One Way Farm is a Children's Home that is located in Fairfield, OH. They provide both temporary emergency shelter and long-term permanent placement through facilities. They have served over 8000 children over a 30 year period.

Underground Skate
The Underground Skate Park was started in the fall of 2002 as a result of two youth from the South Mountain Church in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, wanting to do an outreach for their community. They would invite their unchurched friends to come and skate in the basement of the church and then have a Bible lesson. An average of 23 young people come to the Underground Skate Park three nights a week to spend time skating and also learning about Christ.

Unlock Ministries
Unlock Ministries provides Opportunity Camp, a typical summer camp experience with spiritual, character, and leadership instruction to at-risk fourth graders attending Title One schools in Midland, Texas. Students that attend Opportunity Camp are determined by their school counselors to be at-risk, yet possessing leadership skills and qualities. While at camp, the students will participate in a wide variety of traditional summer camp activities including swimming, hiking, sports, arts, and crafts. The campers are also presented with a curriculum centering on God's truth as it relates to character, specifically regarding respect for authority, parents, elders, peers and siblings, property of others, and nature. Counselors from Opportunity Camp will follow up with these children during the school year with an after school program.

Wandani
Wandani exists to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the inner-city of Milwaukee and to assist urban youth to prepare for lives of positive service to their communities. Wandani is a Swahili word meaning "companions." The goal of St. Marcus' Wandani Youth Ministries is to build friendships and to make companions with the kids in the inner city of Milwaukee. Current offerings include karate classes, open gym, homework club, and basketball. These Bible-based programs are free and open to all children aged 5 to 17.

Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center
The Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center is located in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee and strives to draw urban and suburban families together and to provide excellent academic, cultural, and social opportunities for at-risk and under-served urban children. Kid Brothers is partnering with this ministry to provide scholarships to help parents rise out of government subsidy and return to the work force and job training. The Wayne Reed Center emphasizes character development and self esteem and has been rated in the top 3% of childcare programs in the state of Tennessee.

Youth Horizons
Youth Horizons' mission is to strengthen young people and their families through a network of personal and professional relationships in two primary programs, the Martin House Residential Program and the Youth Horizons Mentoring Program. Founded by internationally renowned singer Earnest Alexander in 1985, Youth Horizons is dedicated to serving these young people and their families without regard for race, creed or religion. All of Youth Horizons' programs seek to give young people the skills they need to become productive members of our community. Both the Martin House Residential Program and the Mentoring Program emphasize life-skills training, including effective decision-making techniques, communication skills and conflict resolution.

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