🧠 Mindset Matters

Real Conversations. Renewed Thinking. Christ-Centered Clarity.

Mindset Matters is a powerful semi-annual or quarterly mental health event designed to help teens develop the emotional resilience and clarity they need to thrive—in life, in faith, and in their future. Hosted by licensed Christian therapists, each event creates a safe, engaging space where students explore how their thoughts, emotions, and spiritual life all work together.

Teens don’t just hear motivational messages—they experience practical group therapy sessions, coping tools, and interactive conversations that equip them to better manage anxiety, self-worth, relationships, stress, and identity.

🔍 What to Expect:

✅ Group sessions led by licensed Christian counselors and therapists

💬 Breakouts that foster open discussion and peer understanding

🧰 Biblically-integrated tools for self-regulation, focus, and peace

✝️ Reflections that ground mental health in God’s truth and grace

👫 Encouragement that says: you’re not alone—and your story matters

Each Mindset Matters session builds toward a greater goal: helping teens reframe their struggles, reset their thinking, and rise into the fullness of who God created them to be.

Because the right mindset can move mountains—especially when it’s rooted in truth.

🚀 LaunchPoint

Back-to-School Cultural Exposure Retreat for the Next Generation
LaunchPoint is Genesis Engaged Media’s signature summer retreat designed to elevate the vision, faith, and academic ambition of underserved teens. This August experience is purposefully timed to reignite motivation and direction before students return to school—transforming their mindset from overwhelmed to empowered.

Held in Washington, DC, this back-to-school journey blends cultural enrichment, spiritual formation, and joyful community-building. Teens will explore meaningful places, grow in identity, and return home ready to pursue the school year with boldness and belief.

🗺️ Retreat Highlights:
🎓 Campus Visits to Howard University & Georgetown
Explore Black excellence and top-tier academics—planting seeds of ambition.

🏛️ National Museum of African American History & Culture
A powerful reflection on legacy, purpose, and identity.

🎢 Busch Gardens Adventure Day
Building joy, confidence, and shared memories before the school year begins.

⛪ Lodging at a Christian Youth Retreat Center
Spiritual deep dives, peer bonding, and workshops on academic purpose, faith, and mental resilience.

🎯 Why It Matters
Many students begin the school year feeling uncertain, unseen, or unmotivated. LaunchPoint rewires that trajectory, giving teens something powerful to carry into their classrooms: vision, confidence, and God-centered hope.

Sponsor a seat. Launch a life. Empower a school year.

🌿 Rooted & Rising

A Faith & Resilience Retreat at Fort Caswell, NC
Rooted & Rising is a transformational teen retreat where young hearts grow grounded in God’s truth and rise with renewed strength for life’s challenges.

Hosted on the historic and youth-centered grounds of Fort Caswell, this multi-day experience offers a sacred blend of spiritual discovery, biblical deep dives, mental health enrichment, and social connection. Students will worship under open skies, walk beside the ocean, and build bonds through small-group reflection, leadership workshops, and guided rest.

Whether they’re battling anxiety, facing life decisions, or just needing direction, this retreat equips teens to face the world with faith and resilience.

🔑 Retreat Features
📖 Daily Devotionals & Biblical Deep Dives

💬 Faith-Based Mental Wellness Sessions

🤝 Social Development Activities & Peer Discussions

🎶 Worship, Bonfires, & Coastal Reflection Time

🏐 Team Games & Confidence-Building Challenges

🛏️ Peaceful Lodging & Meals on a Campus Built for Teens

Let your roots grow down deep in Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong. —Colossians 2:7

This isn’t just a break—it’s a breakthrough.
Rooted in truth. Rising in strength. Ready for purpose.

🎭 CULTURE|LINK

Linking Youth to Live Culture, Lasting Growth, and Shared Joy

CULTURE|LINK is a dynamic youth outing program that connects underserved teens to enriching local and regional experiences—ranging from HBCU football games and professional sports events to gospel concerts, stage plays, and ballets. These outings are more than entertainment—they’re carefully curated moments of exposure, bonding, and personal discovery.

Each trip is an opportunity to step outside routine and into inspiration, helping teens build cultural awareness, deepen peer relationships, and gain social confidence.

🎯 Why It Matters:
Too many youth grow up without access to the enriching events that shape identity, open doors, and spark imagination. CULTURE|LINK breaks that barrier by turning fun, live experiences into tools for growth—and creating memories they’ll carry for a lifetime.

🧭 Program Highlights:
Group trips to HBCU & professional sporting events

Outings to live performances like gospel concerts, ballets, and spoken word

Pre- and post-event reflection circles to process what they saw and felt

Chaperoned by trusted mentors to ensure safety and connection

Designed to bridge faith, joy, and youth development

Because culture isn’t just consumed—it shapes character. And when youth are linked to the right moments, their future opens up.

🔥 FaithFuel

Feeding the Body. Nourishing the Soul. Foreshadowing the Fulfillment.

FaithFuel is a sacred space and weekly youth ministry powered by GEM in partnership with New Life Bible Church (NLBC)—designed to meet teens in both their practical and spiritual needs. At its heart is a shared table: a place of belonging, biblical learning, and nourishment, inspired by the ancient rhythms of Shabbat and fulfilled through the person of Jesus Christ.

Each week, teens are welcomed to a table where they’re fed hot meals or nutritious snacks, immersed in foundational biblical truths, and uplifted by intentional encouragement and gifts—reminders that they are loved, seen, and called to purpose.

🍽️ Why a Meal? Why Now?
In the Old Testament, Shabbat was more than rest—it was a divine invitation to pause, connect, and remember. And at the Last Supper, Jesus reframed that table, revealing Himself as the ultimate fulfillment of rest, provision, and communion.

FaithFuel brings that vision forward—a modern-day table of grace where teens, many of whom lack daily consistency and affirmation, are fed both physically and spiritually in the presence of peers and mentors who care.

🙌 What FaithFuel Offers:
Shabbat-inspired meals that center and restore

Christ-centered teaching that draws from both Old and New Testaments

Interactive lessons and conversations that make Scripture real

Encouragement gifts, games, and incentives that show teens they matter

A rhythm of belonging, joy, and growth in a consistent weekly space

When teens experience the fullness of the table, they begin to understand the fullness of God's love.