Offering Hope to Hopeless Kids

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tyrone Flowers shares his dramatic testimony of experiencing a turbulent childhood that culminated in being shot at age 17, an attack that has left him disabled for life. He describes how he found faith in Christ, forgave his attacker, and found a new purpose in life through ministry to at-risk urban youth.

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0:00.0	For decades, our programs and resources have helped Jane's family, and she recommends
0:06.9	focus to everyone she knows.
0:08.8	Focus on the family would be at the top of the list.
0:11.9	I mean, when I go on the website, I'm blown away by all the different ministries that
0:16.4	you have that minister to families on every level and individual.
0:25.1	Today, Jane wants to encourage more families through focus on the family.
0:31.1	By us giving our money to you, we're hitting all these different important ministries,
0:38.4	you know, pro-life, parenting, marriage issues, individual issues, just so many different things.
0:41.7	All are a part of where our tith goes.
0:45.3	I just feel like we're just starting a big bang for our buck.
0:46.4	I'm Jim Daly.
0:51.0	By working together, we can be a lifeline to anyone who needs our help.
0:55.4	Join our friends of Focus on the Family at Focus on the Family.com slash families.
1:00.5	I was in a juvenile system after going through the foster care for three years in reformatory schools,
1:07.3	state hospitals, and all of a sudden I'm at this reformatory school.
1:11.5	And I was going through the mill line and this beautiful African-American lady looked at me and smiled
1:16.5	and said, you remind me of my son.
1:19.0	Wow.
1:19.4	And at that moment, it was the first time I felt like I had a mother.
1:23.1	Well, that's Tyrone Flowers, and he knows firsthand about the challenges facing at-risk kids.
1:29.4	Tyrone is our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and we'll be hearing more of his
1:34.0	remarkable story and the unique mentoring ministry he has now for at-risk kids like he was.
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