Services
Nutrition is one of the key elements of a good academic performance. As such, we provide meals for the students (and the tutors). We cover the cost to hire two cooks that prepare fresh and healthy meals.
Meal Service
We partner with Next Generation Focus, a nonprofit organization that provides tutors and teachers to help our students complete their homework and improve in the areas where they are underperforming in school.
tutoring
We create a safe environment for children to learn and grow together. Fellowship and friendship are cultivated in and through sharing meals and experiences.
fellowship
Partners
Next Generation Focus
SEAS partners with Next Generation Focus (NGF), a community-based organization that provides educational, relational, and financial resources to help children receive a quality education. NGF’s SmarterMe is a low-to-no-cost program that incorporates learning activities based on the school district’s standards and provides skills to help students with self-esteem, leadership, teamwork, and more.
NGF SmarterMe Program
NFG intentionally recruits local high school students as SmarterME tutors and mentors. As SmarterME® volunteers and interns, the teens learn about social responsibility and service-learning and develop the soft and hard skills necessary as they transition into young adulthood.
Low-to-no-cost, grade-appropriate, and individualized learning acceleration and enrichment activities in reading, mathematics, and STEAM according to school district standards.
individualized
Expose children to new ideas and skills to enhance their development.
age ApPropriate
Teach teamwork, leadership, good work ethics, and socialization by creating a safe place to make new friends and interact through new experiences.
Socialization
Promote self-esteem, self-confidence, and respect for others.
Self-Confidence
St. Brendan the Navigator
SEAS first set sail as a program in the summer of 2022 at St. Brendan the Navigator Catholic Church in Cumming. Named for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the SEAS summer program, invited educational risk children to the parish four days a week for Bible study, faith formation, and educational activities. After a successful summer, SEAS became an after-school program, meeting for two hours each school day.
Everything is connected! It's beautiful Teamwork
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Before joining SEAS, each family is interviewed to discuss their needs so that the parish can help address them. This includes faith formation for sacraments, ESL classes for parents, and receiving goods from the parish food pantry.
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“When you start to provide those things that the church is supposed to provide for them, they come as family groups. Any program we do is, in the end, an opportunity to evangelize. And as Christians, that’s the church’s mission.”
Father Matthew, Pastor of St. Brendan the Navigator
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From volunteers cooking healthy meals to catechists helping to supervise activities, SEAS is supported by the St. Brendan’s parishioners and various other ministries.
Content for this page was derived and inspired by an article featuring SEAS Back on Track from in the Georgia Bulletin, written by Samantha Smith. To view the full article, please click here.
