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Action: Inspired by a 20 year history of "direct service" with youth at risk for delinquency due to poverty, court-, and/or drug involvement EMC now focuses our efforts toward the adults (18 years and older) that invision or participated in the leadership of youth-serving organizations. We also strengthen and parents and guardians with a dream of economic and familial stability, and civic engagement through neighborhood organizing, GED classes, youth-serving non-profit incubation, strategic planning, and resource development.

We also provide workshops and classroom experiences with youth in locations that support their growth and development in areas of education, resilience, entrepreneurship, and advocacy.

Our Motto: Committed to Communities Educating

 EMC accomplishes these this goal through:
  1. Social Justice Advocacy
    1. Effective and Effecting preschool, primary, and secondary public education
    2. Ending Juvenile Mass Incarceration
  2. Restorative Family Conferencing and training
  3. Harding-Anderson Village for Engagement (H.A.V.E.)
    1. Grass roots - Non-profit incubation
    2. Grass roots - Non-profit fiscal sponsorship
    3. Grass roots - Non-profit leadership development
  4. Alternative Learning Communities
    1. Adult Contextualized Literacy
    2. Ged Prep
    3. "Thinking for a Change”
Emerging Ministries:
We are committed to COMMUNITIES educating!
Approach: Through collaborative training, advocacy, mentoring, and non-profit development consulting - EMC develops, implements, and promotes community-empowered processes that assist communities to improve upon, initiate, and sustain the support systems and networks necessary to foster and support a neighborhood-based matrix that assists youth, their families, and their communities to improve positive life-sustaining outcomes (i.e. academic and economic achievement, civic engagement, pro-social participation) and thus enter into an adult “future with hope”
​History: The Cookman Beloved Community Church accomplishes its vocation to “Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8) - through the 501c3 non-profit, EMC (Emerging Ministries Corporation). EMC began in 1999 as a ministry envisioned and actualized through the hard work of four adolescents (Mark and Robert Jones [18 y.o.), Brandon Young (20 y.o.), and Aaron Wells (19 y.o.), who were members of the since discontinued Cookman United Methodist Church’s youth group. These gentlemen were concerned about their, and their peers, future and hope: especially in the areas of vocation, education rights, and responsibilities. They formed EMC to address the felt needs of urban youth for leadership development, social justice, employment, positive peer network, entrepreneurship, fun, and safety.
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