Because this is what God has called us to. This is what he wants us to do with our lives. There are teens in this world who need guidance, love, support, mentoring and a safe place to hang out and have fun. We could share with you story after story about teens dealing will all kinds of hard situations: divorce, alcoholic parents, constant fighting, drugs, peer pressure to be popular or cool, bullying at school, etc. So here we are, doing our best to befriend & walk with our teens through this critical time in their lives.

1Thesslonians 2:6-12 (NIV)
⁶We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else. As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, 7but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children. ⁸We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. ⁹Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. ¹⁰You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. ¹¹For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, ¹²encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

1 TIM 4:12
Let no-one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to the believers in word, conduct, love, spirit, faith and purity.

Ps 71:17-18
Since my youth, O God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this, to hear of [the youth] walking in the truth.