HELP US IMPACT THE NEXT GENERATION
With your support, we believe that we have an opportunity to help emerging adults where they are and meet their needs as mentors and guides. Cultivate currently provides all of its services free of charge in order to remain accessible to those with limited resources. Services include but are not limited to COMPASS (vocational mentoring), SYMBIS© (premarital mentoring), CULTIVATE CARES (resources for spiritual and practical needs) and an Independent Living Program (ILP under development).
Your gifts enable Cultivate staff and volunteers to continue pouring their lives into the emerging adults we are currently mentoring and will help us continue to expand our reach. Checkout Cultivate's ongoing impact here.
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Cultivate is a 501c3 non-profit organization so gifts are tax deductible. If you have any questions about donations to Cultivate or how you can participate with the ministry of Cultivate, please e-mail us info@cultivatenext.org. We are so thankful that you would consider becoming a financial partner with us!
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CULTIVATE'S ONGOING IMPACT
Cultivate has helped 202 emerging adults explore their unique God given design through our COMPASS vocational mentoring process.
We have provided pre-marriage mentoring for 69 young adult couples who have completed the SYMBIS© Assessment and met multiple times with a certified mentor couple.
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In addition to those from COMPASS and SYMBIS, more emerging adults have participated with Cultivate through various other types of growth opportunities:
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355 have attended a Special Event Gathering.
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94 have volunteered for Service Projects.
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74 have participated in weekly Bible Study.
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60 have received basic apologetics training through Cultivate True North
Cultivate also serves foster youth. This began in 2017 when Cultivate started preparing and serving food for the Foster Care Families Association of Coweta County at their annual Easter Eggstravaganza event. Not only is this event loved by all who attend and serve, it meets a practical need in the community and provides the opportunity to serve others in the name of Jesus.
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During the summers of 2018 and 2019, Cultivate held week long COMPASS Day Camps on campus at a local children's home providing vocational mentoring for 17 foster youth.
Since 2022, Cultivate has helped to provide a weekly Chapel gathering for foster youth at a local children’s home. During this time, we have established relationships with 47 foster youth - 11 of these have made professions of faith and 9 have been baptized to date.
THE HUGE GOAL AHEAD
Our recent experience of working with foster youth has led us to a greater understanding of what they face. Of the 47 foster youth mentioned above, 39 have been moved to another facility, aged out of the system or left before they turned 18. After attending several conferences and doing our own research we have discovered these staggering statistics about foster youth who age out of care:
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3% will ever achieve a college degree
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20% become homeless as soon as they age out
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50% are not able to complete their high school education
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60% of guys are incarcerated (due mostly to survival crimes)
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65% have gaps in their education due to being in 7 or more schools
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71% of girls become pregnant by age 21
If you are like us, the immediate reaction is - THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! We have to do something...
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We believe God is leading us to begin a new transitional or independent living program for former foster youth and under-resourced youth in our community. The goal is that this housing program will give them a chance to develop personally and spiritually as they pursue goals for education and career, moving toward independent living and thriving adulthood.
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This huge goal will require Cultivate to expand drastically in both financial support and leadership.
Will you pray and consider how God might lead you to partner with Cultivate? If you are already a partner, will you pray and consider helping even more?”