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The Cultured Team is excited to welcome our first interns for 2023. Chhan-Tahvi Finch is majoring in psychology at Seattle Central. Chhan has a passion for working with children. She will tutoring, inspiring youth to be creative, and helping with the Cultured programs. Journee Dunn is a pre-med/psychology major at Seattle Central. Journee enjoys being part of the South Seattle culture and encouraging students to thrive in her community. Journee will be helping with advisory, leading small group discussions, and helping with Cultured. Interns are a key part of the Cultured mission. Interns relate to the youth, bring deep community

Cultured celebrated Black History with the staff and students at Emersones Elementary with an inspired dance performance. Word don’t do it justice, so view it instead….

Click to read the Cultured February 2023 newsletter.

Thursday, February 16 Emersones Elementory 9709 60th Ave S. Seattle, 98118

The Seattle YFC Board of Directors is proud to announce Mike Davis as the new Executive Director. Mike moves into this position after three years as Ministry Director for the South Seattle YFC. Mike developed the Cultured program that fully integrates the Seattle YFC mission into the community, schools, juvenile detention, homes, and streets in South Seattle. Mike will be bringing a new, community-oriented direction for Seattle YFC. Mike brings a strong leadership track record of bringing Jesus’s love directly to where the youth need it most. He spoke about what they did in South Seattle in 2022: “To begin,

Seattle Youth For Christ attended three camps this summer:  Why is camp important for our ministry? The outcomes are friendships, overcoming challenges, staying healthy, building character, and having a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ.  Romans 5:1-5  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and

Hello my name is Alera Vargas and I am the administrative intern here at Cultured. I am so delighted for the opportunity to be sharing my heart this month with you all. Interning at the Cultured site has taught me many things and filled my life in many ways but the most important being the relationship that is fostered between myself and the students as well as the importance of understanding the community you are working with. COMMUNITY “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just

Jeremiah 17:7-8 – But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. Ephesians 3:16-19 – I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray

In Everything Give Thanks POET: UNKNOWN For all that God in mercy sends – For health and children, home and friends; For comfort in the time of need, For every kindly word and deed, For happy talks and holy thoughts; For guidance in our daily walk – In everything give thanks! For beauty in this world of ours, For verdant grass and lovely flowers, For song of birds, for horn of bees, For the refreshing summer breeze, For hill and plain, for streams and wood, For the great ocean’s mighty flood – In everything give thanks! For the sweet sleep

Time to Get Live! Time to Represent! “Time to get live! Time to represent!” is a chant we say when we are hyping the kids up. We are amped up about this new school year and ready to have crazy faith! We believe God is on the move. Our goal is to love our students harder than we ever have before, support our community, support our church, and support our local schools. We will be doing this by having open studio time, school assemblies, youth services, outreach, and by just being available. One major project that was recently completed was