Serve Taylor Afterschool is proud to introduce the Future Men Initiative. By facilitating classic boyhood adventures and recreation, in a disciplined way, we are instilling the skills, habits, and characteristics of good and proper men.
The mission of Serve Taylor Afterschool is to inspire students facing traumatic hardships and/or generational poverty to develop healthy, intergenerational relationships, and build brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Who is eligible to enroll?
Presently, we exclusively enroll boys from 4-8th grades.
What is the program like?
We focus on character formation by mentoring and building healthy relationships.
How much does it cost?
Our approach is pay-what-you-can afford and no children are turned away due to cost. The full price is $150 a month (August-May)
Because our group is small, space is limited. Email us and let us know you are interested in enrolling your child and we will go from there.
How can I support STA?
Support us financially by setting up an automatic recurring monthly donation! And since we are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, all donations are tax-deductible.
When and where?
The program runs Monday - Thursday from after school lets out until around 5:15pm. We are based out of the Tripp Center located at the corner of Adams and Mills, on the campus of Christ Fellowship church (1517 McLain St) in Taylor, Texas.
Future Men
Our mission is going to be effectively accomplished by taking a focused aim at mentoring and specifically by cultivating relationships that resemble and reflect those of a brother or father. By facilitating classic boyhood adventures and recreation, in a disciplined way, we are instilling the skills, habits, and characteristics of good and proper men. Skills such as patience and endurance; habits such as self-sacrifice and a hard work ethic; characteristics such as loyalty and courage. By this, we will effectively help create healthy, thriving young men who go on to make positive impacts in their own families and in our communities. Men equipped and empowered to work hard and make wise decisions, raise sturdy families, and start businesses of their own, benefiting themselves and creating a brighter future for the next generation and the world around them.
More Than Facts
Kids need more than facts, they need character—they need to know how to live. Education is the transfer of a way of life. The boys in the Future Men Initiative will be shown and taught a way to live that sadly too many of today’s children have rarely or never experienced.
Transferring a Way of Life
A life well-lived will be one where they see not only themselves but the wide world around them. By facilitating adventure, we broaden creativity and imagination. We tell a better story and challenge our boys to think about those stories they love and the one they live.
Stories Lived
What character are you? The one everyone sees and hates or the one they want to be like? Through relationships with those of different generations, we want to expose our boys to the lives of others in their community and help them to broaden their vision and learn to live their story well.
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Caleb Ripple and his wife EJ married in 2007 and now have seven children yet alive, 6 rambunctious future men and 1 ferocious girl. He is one of the founders and the director of Serve Taylor Afterschool which began in 2015 and a founder and teacher at Koinonia Classical Christian School (est. 2018). He has been a pastor at Christ Fellowship Church in Taylor, Texas since 2007, and loves making music and working outside, getting his hands dirty.
