Our Mission, Vision & Core Values

Rise Up!
Inspiring, Influencing and Impacting Kids’ Tomorrows… Today

Our Mission
To impact 100 kids to become 1st generation college students.

Our Vision
By 2020, to holistically love, influence, and impact 500 under-resourced kids through life skills training, mentoring, and a college education with the expectation they will do likewise for others.

Core Values
As disciples of …

Jesus Christ who, as Lord of our hearts and lives, is therefore, the Lord of our work.

We are committed to the disciplines of…
Prayer:  Through God, by prayer, all things are possible, especially changed lives.

Teamwork:  We believe our staff is stronger together.  We aim to prove this by persevering
through struggles, conflicts, and by celebrating our successes.

Leadership Development:  Leadership must be multiplied.  Our staff is provided opportunities to
develop their abilities, feel the weight of extra burdens, seize the
initiative, and attain the power of final decision.

In order to affect…
Community:  We are building a community within our staff in order to reach the under
resourced in our greater community.

Through the means of…
Love:  As God is love and we are called to love Him and our neighbor, so love drives our
our staff and our ministry in the service of others.

Influence:  The heart of our mission is to influence kids, families, and the community through
one to one mentoring relationships.

Character Development:  Life skills training is an integral part of our mentoring, after school,
and abstinence programs and is key to a kid’s future success.

Acceptance:  Regardless of whether a kid attains our spiritual or academic goals, our
unconditional love for that child will not waiver.

Excellence:  Our dedication to excellence involves not only demanding our work be above
reproach, but to cast a vision of excellence within the community we are trying to
reach.  Since there is a correlation between excellence and achievement,
breaking the poverty cycle through the acquisition of higher education and/or
vocational skills is an inherent value of our mission.