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
We have helped 195 emerging adults explore their unique design through COMPASS.
We have provided marriage mentoring for 62 young adult couples who have completed the SYMBIS© Assessment.
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Through these two specific environments, we have discovered other needs and provided additional environments and resources to meet these emerging adults where they are.
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Many other emerging adults, in addition to those from COMPASS and SYMBIS, have participated with us since the beginning through various types of special events, small group environments, service projects, or mission trips. It has been a truly amazing journey so far!
Cultivate also serves foster youth. This began in 2017 when Cultivate started preparing and serving food for the Foster Care Families of Coweta County through their 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.
As Cultivate worked with families involved in foster care, a seed was planted to do more because the needs are so great. Since 2022 Cultivate provides a weekly chapel event for foster youth at a local children’s home. During this time, we have established relationships with 31 youth. Of these 31, 11 have made professions of faith and 6 have been baptized.
THE HUGE GOAL AHEAD
Our recent experience of working with foster youth has led us to a greater understanding of what they face. Of those 31 foster youth, 18 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 diploma
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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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Can you imagine trying to finish your educational or career goals when you have no where to call home and don't even know where your next meal is coming from? We believe God is leading us to begin an Independent Living Program (ILP) for former foster youth and under- resourced youth in our community. The goal is that the ILP would give them a chance to develop and pursue goals for education, career and independence.”
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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 partner, will you pray and consider helping even more?”