Firm Foundation Tutoring

Here are some of the amazing local youth serving with us this summer!

14 of the altogether 19 teens serving have previously participated in after school and/or summer FFT.

Here are some of the reasons they want to serve with us:

“I enjoy learning about Jesus and I get to meet new people. I also want to help out because a lot of people who inspired me to give back to the community.”

“I would like to spend my summer with FFT because of my personal experience of going there as a kid... I want to help make an impact in my community.”

“I went to this camp as a child and now I believe it is time for me to help give back.“

It was a great first week of our island escape 🏝️

🧱 we engineered with Legos
🎨 we created art
🌋 we built volcanoes
🤝 we made new friends
🌱 we learned some parables of Jesus

Thank you to volunteers, donors, and others making our high value summer possible!

Would you join the impact by giving toward a summer of high value for our youth? We are at 60% of our goal to see $100,000 given by June 30.

👩‍🏫 Teachers trained
💪 Youth interns oriented
🚌 Van rented and Field Trip Buses ordered
💚 100 children expected starting Monday!

We’re a little delayed, but here is a belated yet big congratulations to our recent grads 👏

One FFT student (who also is a tutor) graduated high school along with 3 other tutors: Moises, Titus, Sydney, and Samantha.

These tutors graduated from SLU or Wash U:
Lucy
Lily
Sanskriti
Anacristina
Tiffany
Brooks
Kathryn
Chris
David
Ady
John
Carolyn

And a shoutout to two grad school graduates:
Justin
Enoch

Please walk with us in prayer as we prepare for the summer program 🙏

Are you looking for an island escape this summer? 🏝️

Firm Foundation has you covered! Come volunteer with us as we explore an island theme 😎

Volunteer application in comments ⬇️

📣 Spring Impact Update 📣

The story of this guy, whose reading progressed 76% in grade level percentile this year (!!!) and other encouraging reads, hit email inboxes Friday and should hit your snail mailbox soon 📬

To get on our newsletter list, contact Kristen Flores at [email protected] 💌

We ended spring with a bonus bikes and robot party!

🚲 Thanks to St. Louis BWorks for teaching our kids to ride

🤖 Thanks to Cliff Sodergren and the Robotics club from Crossroads Prep for sharing your work!

It’s Give STL Day, which kicks off our summer campaign!

Your generosity of time, talents, and treasures gave this sweet girl her very first taste of cotton candy.

And now she is about to taste her first Firm Foundation summer program 🌞

Our goal is to see $100,000 given by the end of June, which fuels our entire summer!

By God’s grace and your generosity, we have already seen $30,000 pledged.

Join us in praying and giving to see $70,000 in new and increased giving in 7 weeks so that 100 children and youth might taste and see God’s goodness this summer 🙏

Last year we started a new tradition of recognizing tutors and students who have been with us for 5, 10, or even 20 years in one case!

This year we celebrated one 5-year student anniversary (and FOUR tutors) 👏