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"SONGS OF THE REAPER"
VINTAGE VINYL RECORD ALBUM
33RPM
AS SUNG BY THE TEEN CHALLENGE CHOIR
OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
UNDER SUPERVISION OF
REVEREND ROBERT "BOB" BARTLETT
MUSIC DIRECTOR - RICHARD J. DAVIS
ACCOMPANIST - EVEALIE PAINTER
LOCATION RECORDING SERVICE
LRS
2201 BURBANK BLVD.
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA

LRS - 1265-3263
SIDE 1
HOW GREAT THOU ART
IT MAY BE TODAY
HE BELONGS TO ME
TROUBLED HEART
SONGS OF THE REAPER
SIDE 2
THE FINGER OF GOD
THANK YOU JESUS
OVER THE SUNSET MOUNTAINS
YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN
SWEETER AS THE DAYS GO BY
GOOD-BYE WORLD GOOD-BYE

RECORD IS SOUND TESTED
RECORD PLAYS EX+
DUST JACKET SHOWS SEAM SPLITS
OTHERWISE
VG+
GREAT MID CENTURY MODERN
JESUS MOVEMENT / JESUS PEOPLE
RACIAL INTEGRATION

GOD'S MIDNIGHT ARMY
CIRCA 1960 - 1970

YOUR SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED

 

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FYI

Teen Challenge is a network of corporations that offer Christ-centered, faith-based solutions to youth, adults, and families struggling with life-controlling problems, such as substance abuse.

With headquarters near Springfield, Missouri, Teen Challenge USA (TC USA) oversees the US network consisting of ~80 501(c)3 corporations representing ~200 residential programs. Unaffiliated Teen Challenges (though related in purpose) have also been be started around the world, with ~100 countries representing ~1000 programs, and are served by Global Teen Challenge based in Columbus, Georgia.

The ministry that would later become Teen Challenge was founded in 1958 by David Wilkerson, an Assemblies of God pastor who left a rural Pennsylvania church to work on the street among teenage gang members and socially marginalized people in New York City and who, perhaps, is best known for later authoring The Cross and the Switchblade and founding Times Square Church.

It wasn't until 1962 that Teen Challenge started its first residential program—the model it uses to this day.

In 1973, 15 years after the ministry began, Teen Challenge established a national headquarters.

In 1995, Global Teen Challenge was founded to assist the growing number of Teen Challenges starting up outside the US, but struggling to acquire the necessary resources and training.

Mission
The official Statement of Purpose of Teen Challenge is, "To provide youth, adults and families with an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to life-controlling problems, such a substance abuse, in order to become productive members of society. By applying biblical principles, Teen Challenge endeavors to help people become mentally-sound, emotionally-balanced, socially-adjusted, physically-well, and spiritually-alive."

Organization
While the residential model continue to be the primary service of Teen Challenges around the world, an increasing number of community small groups and other non-residential models are also used.

Teen Challenge USA is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit headquartered in Ozark, Missouri. Though self-governing, it also exists as a department of the U.S. Missions division of the Assemblies of God USA.

TC USA maintains accreditation standards, curriculum, training and resources to all Teen Challenge organizations within the United States and Puerto Rico.

Each individual US corporation is self-governing, though TC USA does require a minimum set of accreditation standards be met to be able to function with as a "Teen Challenge".

Global Teen Challenge is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.

The mission of Global Teen Challenge is to assist with the development of new centers outside the US, but they also provide resources and training to the existing programs.

Global Teen Challenge is divided into seven regions with a director or representative for each region. The seven regions with their directors and basic residential statistics as of November, 2010:
Latin America and Caribbean - Duane Henders; 1,250 beds in 102 centers in 17 countries.
Europe - Tom Bremer; 892 beds in 58 centers in 28 countries.
Africa - Doug Wever, 1,034 beds in 14 centers in 9 countries.
Asia Pacific - James Lowans; 357 beds in 51 centers in 9 countries.
Northern Asia - 30 beds in three centers.
Eurasia - Kevin Tyler; 11,600 beds in 370 centers in 14 countries.
North America - Tim Culbreth (interim), 7,536 beds in 223 centers in 2 countries.

Core Structure of Programs
The TCUSA Board of Directors approved a "Phase" system to explain core structures of Teen Challenge. All centers of any Phase are expected to be involved in Phase 1. The phase ministry is as follows:
Phase 1 - Recognition of destructive and habitual thoughts that lead to substance abuse.
Phase 2 - Focus on healing the wounds of past failures and broken relationships.
Phase 3 - Character development and spiritual growth with a discovery process identifying personal strengths and setting individual goals.
Phase 4 - Continuing Care Planning includes employment/educational plans, housing, financial planning, relationship skills, support system evaluation, leadership skills and relapse prevention. This may or may not be residential, but generally these centers involve Phase 1 activity, as well as providing pastoral counseling and referral. Many of these ministries also coordinate or directly provide the non-residential expression of Teen Challenge: Living Free (formerly Turning Point). Living Free is small groups based. The Crisis centers that are residential are typically very short term until a more permanent discipleship bed can be located.
Phase 5 - Re-entry - generally for those graduates needing additional assistance in education, transitional housing, securing jobs or job skills, but can involve other reasons.
Phase 6 - Restoration - for graduates who have returned to old behavior patterns. Phase 6 is a rare ministry as a center, and is more often co-located with a Phase 4.
Another major component of the Teen Challenge structure is the Teen Challenge curriculum by Dave Batty. This is known as the Group Studies for New Christians and the Personal Studies for New Christians.

Studies of program effectiveness
In 1973, Archie Johnston compared results of Teen Challenge with that of a transactional analysis approach at a Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution therapeutic community, and with a third group who received no treatment.

While the numbers of subjects was small (17 in each group), he found evidence to support his recommendation that, while Teen Challenge was an "effective" treatment (with a drug recidivism rate after 29 months of 32%), Transactional Analysis was a "very effective" treatment (with a comparable 16% rate), suggesting that perhaps the lower recidivism rates were a result of TA changing the addiction concept of the self-image more thoroughly and at a slower pace. He hoped that Teen Challenge would incorporate some psychotherapy into their treatment model.

An independent analysis completed by Wilder Research has demonstrated MnTC’s effectiveness using a broad range of measures.

In their study of 154 former residents who graduated between 2007 and 2009:
74 percent of adult program graduates reported no use in the previous six months
58 percent had attended school since graduating
77 percent were either working 30+ hours a week or were a full-time student
80+ percent rated the overall quality of MnTC as “outstanding” or “very good.”
When asked to name what helped most, the faith-based aspects of the program were mentioned most frequently.

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Bob Bartlett
Robert Bartlett is the founding pastor of Living Water of the Valley Church in Phoenix and has served the congregation for twenty-five years. Bob has been in the ministry for over fifty years. He has traveled to many countries of the world in crusades, and teaching seminars. Before coming to Phoenix, he traveled with his wife and children for six and a half years and are the founders of a very important missionary outreach, "KIDS International." They took young people to third-world countries for a week of missions on the streets, in the parks and in local churches in the evenings for ministry. Many young people received their calling to full time ministry on these trips, and are now missionaries all over the world.

He and wife, Ona, also preside over "Living Water International," a worldwide organization reaching ministers with fellowship and training, bringing the body of Christ together in a special and loving way. Their other organization, "Redeem A Child," was a sovereign move of God to rescue slave children in the Sudan. To date, they and their partners have purchased over 1500 children from the Muslims, and returned them to the safety of their parents or Christian orphanages.

In the 1970's Bob served as director of Teen Challenge in Philadelphia. The popular book, The Soul Patrol told the story of the successful ministy.

Bob and Ona have been married for 49 years and have six children: Rob III, Kamwyn, Nicole, Kourtne, Phoebe, and Joel. They have eight grandchildren.

Robert and Ona Bartlett have been in the ministry for over fifty years. They have traveled to many countries of the World in crusades, and teaching seminars. Before coming to Phoenix, they traveled with their children for six and a half years and are the founders of a very important missionary outreach, "KIDS International." They took young people to third-world countries for a week of missions on the streets, in the parks and in local churches in the evenings for ministry. Many young people received their calling to full time ministry on these trips, and are now missionaries all over the world.

In Phoenix, Bob and Ona founded Living Water of the Valley Church, and host a radio program, "It's A Family Affair," heard every weekday morning. They also preside over "Living Water International," a worldwide organization reaching ministers with fellowship and training, bringing the body of Christ together in a special and loving way. Their other organization, "Redeem A Child," was a sovereign move of God to rescue slave children in the Sudan. To date, they and their partners have purchased over 1500 children from the Muslims, and returned them to the safety of their parents or Christian orphanages.

Pastor Ona was called to the ministry when she was twelve and Pastor Bob when he was fifteen years old. They have been married for 49 years and have six children: Rob III, Kamwyn, Nicole, Kourtne, Phoebe, and Joel. They have eight grandchildren: Rebekah, Zachary, Trevor, Duncan, Jared, Julian, Seth, and Reagan. We welcome you to Phoenix, and our church, and want you to know we love you, and so does God.

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