Kid Brothers of St. Frank supported the following ministries for 2005:

Baptist Children's Home and Family Services
This children's home began in 1918 as an orphanage in southern Illinois. They offer residential care for children ages 6 to 18 who have been victimized by abuse, neglect or abandonment, or who are experiencing emotional or behavioral difficulties. In 2002, nearly 800 children and families were served through BCHF.

Broad Ripple Inroads
Broad Ripple Inroads is a ministry that works with inner-city kids who hang out around the Broad Ripple Bridge in Indianapolis, Indiana. The majority of the "Bridge Kids" are middle class, suburban, high school "misfits", perhaps some of the most at-risk kids in our society. Broad Ripple provides a gathering every Friday night where these kids can develop relationships with caring, Christian adults. Small groups, bible studies, leadership training, teamwork and developing relationships is encouraged and modeled to these teen-agers who have no one to look up to and help them in this stage of life.

Christ in Youth
Christ in Youth exists to connect young people with Jesus Christ. The Mission at Christ In Youth is dedicated to providing opportunities for young people to experience God and His Word in a way that transforms their lives. It is designed to be a cutting edge youth ministry organization that provides programming and resources for the local church. They offer week long conferences in the summer as well as weekend retreats during the school year.

Cookson Hills
Cookson Hills, located in Kansas, Oklahoma, gives at-risk kids a second chance at life by nurturing them towards a better lifestyle by means of a loving home life, professional counseling, and a quality education. It is an entire community approach, where a child lives in a Christ-centered home, goes to a Christ-centered school and enjoys the safety and peace of a Christ-centered community.

Cornerstone Youth Center
The Cornerstone Youth Center is located in Monroeville, Indiana. This ecumenical based center provides a fun place for teens to go after school and on the weekends. Structured programs such as tutoring, small groups, Bible studies, character building sessions, and discussions geared toward struggles in teen's lives happen weekly, as well as the opportunity for teens in the community to hang out in a safe, chaperoned gathering place. Cornerstone Youth Center is trying to be a light in the community and offer alternatives for the teenagers.

Diamond Willow Ministries
Diamond Willow Ministries (DWM) is a Christian non-profit organization located on the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation in Central South Dakota. DWM is comprised of Dakota and Lakota Sioux people, and non-Indians, that live and work on the reservation. Those involved with DWM are committed to positively impacting the lives of those on their reservation.

Some of the things that the mission does on the Reservation include the following:
* Providing, preparing and serving evening meals for the youth at the Fort Thompson Boys and Girls Club.
* Providing assistance to individuals for critical home repairs.
* Assist with the many various emergency personal crises that arise.
* Cantemawaste Youth Club, a children's club for Christian fun and learning on Sunday mornings with camps throughout the summer months.
* Weekly Singing, Bible study and prayer time.
* Sunday morning worship.
* Individual Bible studies and individual counseling and support through personal relationships.

East Central Ministries
The vision of East Central Ministries is to transform the low-income East Central neighborhoods of Albuquerque into communities where God's peace is present and all of God's children can flourish. Wings of Eagles seeks to "equip urban Native American youth with the skills, confidence, and character necessary to become Christian leaders."

The ministries they currently offer:
* Native American youth leadership program
* Community food cooperative
* After school tutoring program
* English as a Second Language classes
* Life Skills
* Computer classes
* Christian Addiction Counseling
* House church worship
* Community gardens

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.

John Engle Christian Counseling Center
The John Engle Christian Counseling Center is located in Hamilton, Ohio. They are committed to providing clinical counseling and preventive education to individuals, couples and families who are struggling to keep their psychological and moral balance in a troubled world. Kid Brothers has given the counseling center funds for scholarships so that at-risk youth who have no insurance or other means of payment can receive the services they need.

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.

Southeast Area Ministries
Southeast Area Ministries (SEAM) work with the impoverished in Houston, Texas. SEAM assists high-risk children and families by providing food, clothing, work clothing for adults, job placement assistance, and emergency aid for single mothers. They receive referrals of high-risk children needing nutritional support, school uniforms and school supplies. A total of 30 schools in the public school system currently refer high-risk students to SEAM. Last year, they gave aid to 2,726 children.

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.

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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