New Life located in Bremerton, Washington, is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, wholly owned by the Emmanuel Apostolic Church, devoted to teaching and promoting leadership development through its three major Initiatives: Education, Economic Development and Community Service.
-- The EducationInitiative – New Life enhances existing programs and creates new programs, which teach leadership skills and to close the achievement gap through Service Learning, Arts and Humanities, Youth Leadership, Mentorship, and Multi-Cultural curriculum. New Life teaches leadership, cultural competency and emotional intelligence through experiential learning as the foundation of all curricula. Reaching the student, of any age, at an emotional level through an immersion in a new experience, is what triggers authentic and sustainable learning. See our Program and Activity Guide for updated announcements of programs and events!
-- The Economic DevelopmentInitiative – We help you make money on the job or in a business.
*SmallBusinessDevelopment – New Life can help you navigate the many resources, which can help you start a business or build the capacity of your existing business. We also teach and promote the practice of entrepreneurial leadership skills. Contact us for an initial 1-hour free consultation with the Business Development Specialist are now available.
*Workforce Development - Employment Recruitment, Training and Coaching. New Life can help you get a better job or perform better on your current job. We can also work with employers to recruit employees for jobs, train employees in job skills and coach employees to excellent job performance.
--The Community ServiceInitiative – New Life enhances existing programs and creates new programs to teach leadership skills in the community as well as teaches and facilitates advocacy skills to individuals and organizations through community events and the New Life Legal Services Clinic. If you need legal services, contact us for an initial 1-hour free consultation. Examples of community events New Life, which has presented in the past are included in the Archives.
New Life’s Fees: New Life’s goal is to develop sustainable funding to support its short- and long-term operations. Fees for services will be priced at discounted rates depending on the scope of services to be provided.
Background: Historically, Bremerton, Washington specifically, and Kitsap County, generally, have experienced a slow growth in both population and economy. Bremerton has an unemployment rate of 9.7%, which is higher than the national average of 5.8%. Further, the average salary for jobs in Bremerton is $25,922 and the median income for households in Bremerton is $30,950. Bremerton ranks 341 of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked by per capita income. These metrics are reflected in the way the community views itself – individuals lose connection, families drift away, neighborhoods decline and businesses struggle. Effective, progressive leadership can turn this around.
Effective leadership is the necessary ingredient for community, business and individual development. With effective leadership, a community can build its capacity through job growth and civic pride; businesses can achieve commercial success; and individuals can reach their potential. New Life will focus on helping businesses and individuals build capacity by teaching and promoting leadership.
Bremerton is ripe for this business and self development because the face of Bremerton’s economy is changing for the better. Over the past few years, hundreds of million dollars of private and public investment has been pumped into the local area. The region is clearly in a slow, but steady, upward transition, making it an opportunistic market for entrepreneurial activity. The public and private developments in downtown Bremerton have already spawned the considerable growth of new business. New Life teaches and promotes leadership. It is well positioned to take advantage of existing opportunity and create new opportunity in the Bremerton area because it operates with an entrepreneurial mindset and is able to adjust quickly and nimbly to change and to help New Life clients do the same.
