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“Pray Daily…Serve Weekly…Give Monthly”
Our vision for C2BU is big, bold, and, we believe, God inspired. We need an army of volunteers to accomplish the vision that has been set before us. We welcome you to a place where individuals are collectively united in purpose and vision so that we can use our unique, God-given gifts and talents to accomplish more together than we dare imagine alone. Join us as we change this world one individual at a time.
We need you to…
- Pray Daily for our needs.
- Serve weekly in a volunteer position.
- Become a monthly financial partner to C2BU.
- Educate yourself about sex trafficking.
- Share our vision with your friends, family, and coworkers.
- Follow us on Twitter Follow @CourageToBeYou
- Sign up to receive C2BU’s enews.
- Attend/Host a Courage Concert.
- Plan your own fundraising event.
- Write a letter to government officials in your area.
- Show Support by purchasing C2BU merchandise.
- Attend/Host a Courage Conference at your Church.
While Returns on Investment (ROI) are historically calculated and discussed in dollars and cents, C2BU is offering a different type of ROI – we are offering you the opportunity to make a difference in one individual’s life, thus changing a family, a community, a city, a state…who knows, but by the power of God, the world.
C2BU is looking for business partners who share the same passion to equip, encourage, and empower individuals to discover who they are and what they are to be doing. We want to partner with you to deliver Courage Conferences and Speaking Engagements, within your business or organization, that will align your employees with their purpose, and communicate our intent to build homes for a very vulnerable population of children who are rescued from the vicious crime of sex trafficking.
We are building a Courage House in every city across the United States and throughout the world, where there is a need for children to be rescued from sex trafficking. Will you join us?
We need you to…
- Become a monthly financial partner to C2BU.
- Join our Capital Campaign to adopt and build a cottage.
- Join our Business Leadership Council to share our vision within your business community.
- Invite a representative of C2BU to speak at your next business meeting, event or retreat.
- Host a Courage Conference where C2BU Founder and CEO, Jenny Williamson, will speak to your organization.
- Host an a Courage Concert & Awareness event.
- Adopt C2BU as your charitable organization and give back to your community.
- Host a fundraiser.
- Involve C2BU in grant opportunities within your organization.
- Donate merchandise, materials, and/or services needed to build and/or operate Courage House.
- Sponsor a C2BU event.
C2BU is looking for Professional Service Partners who share our same passion to equip, encourage, and empower individuals to discover who they are and what they are to be doing. We are building a Courage House in every city across the United States and throughout the world, where there is a need for children to be rescued from sex trafficking. We have C2BU Corporate needs to successfully run our organization. Courage House will have on-going needs to provide for each child.
If you have a heart and a passion for the work of C2BU, will YOU join us?
The following is a non-inclusive list of services needed. Please Register Here
- Medical and dental services
- Building and material vendors
- Land Brokers / Real Estate Developers
- CPA / Accountants
- Attorneys
- Advertising
- Graphic Artists
- Publishing
- Mechanics
- “C” Specialty License Contractors
- General “A” and “B” License Contractors
Prayer is a foundational component of the work of C2BU, and a vehicle through which our volunteers, staff and board members are: equipped, encouraged, and empowered to accomplish the God-inspired vision to serve minor victims recovered from sex trafficking. We give thanks and continuously pray for each life that God divinely places in our path. Prayer partners stand alongside us by committing to support this vision, which includes: global, national, community, and individual work of the organization. Prayer Partners will receive prayer update e-mails, as well as notification when urgent prayer needs arise.
By submitting this request form, you agree to keep all prayer requests and urgent updates completely confidential. This is critical for the safety and protection of the victims we are seeking to rescue as well as for C2BU’s global staff.
Immediate Prayer Requests for the individuals C2BU serves, staff, Board of Directors, and volunteers:
Equip – 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New King James Version)
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Encourage- Hebrews 10:35-39 (New King James Version)
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 37 “ For yet a little while, And He[a] who is coming will come and will not tarry. 38 Now the[b]just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Empower - Ephesians 3:16-19 (New King James Version)
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
1-Pray that God will to equip our volunteers, staff and board members with wisdom, courage, strength; and to protect each individual, their family members, and victims from physical harm and spiritual attack.
2 – Pray that God gives each C2BU staff member a spirit of perseverance to run the race marked out for us. Pray that we would stand strong in encouragement of one another through all individual or organizational circumstances and any opposition toward our vision and purpose.
3 – Pray that God empowers C2BU staff with unconditional love and unity among ourselves, the individuals and victims we serve, and those we confront.
We are pleased to introduce the artists that have partnered with us so far along this journey and encourage you to visit Our Store or iTunes, to download the Believe in Me CD. Artists who partner with C2BU share our desire to be a voice for children oppressed by the evil of sex trafficking and to tell their stories through art.
We welcome artists who share our passion to be a voice for these vulnerable children and give them hope, healing, and restoration, to contact us about our next CD project: “Who Will Call Me Family”.
We welcome youth and students from elementary school through college who share in our passion to change this world one individual at a time. We have been so encouraged to see the youth in our community, nation and world stand up to be a voice for those who don’t have one. Young people are discovering that you were Created on Purpose for a Purpose™ and are changing the face of families, schools and communities.
Learn how one school is making a difference click here
By getting involved, you are igniting a passion in the next generation. You are contagious! We have many opportunities for you to be involved. Will you join us?
- Educate your friends. Hand out this flier, This Could Be You Poster.
- Share our vision with your friends, family, school, clubs, organizations.
- Follow us on Twitter Follow @CourageToBeYou
- Attend a Free Courage Concert event to learn more.
- Host a Courage Concert at your church, school, or club.
- Attend a Courage Conference. Speak with your Youth Pastor at church about hosting a Courage Conference.
- Invite a C2BU speaker to your school, club, youth group.
- Start a club at your school to raise awareness and gain support for the fight against child sex trafficking in your own community.
- Bags ‘O Courage – Fill backpacks with critical items needed for girls that are currently at risk for sex trafficking. (information coming soon)
- Host a Fundraiser.
- Change for Change Campaign – Give change to change this world one individual at a time. (information coming soon)
- “Courage Run” – Host a run, walk, or jog-a-thon at your school, church, community, or club.
- Recycle – lead a recycle drive at your school, club, church, or community and give proceeds to C2BU.
“Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6
We are asking the churches within our communities, large and small, to walk alongside C2BU as we not only loose the chains of injustice and build homes for children rescued from sex trafficking, but to realize the potential of the Body of Christ as each person discovers they were “created on purpose for a purpose”™. Courage to be You, Inc. (C2BU) was founded on the principle that each and every life not only has value, but also has a unique purpose and destiny. We believe that in addition to a personal relationship with God, discovering and fulfilling our life’s purpose is the adventure and the life we were created for.
Will you join us?
We ask that you prayerfully consider…
Purpose
Give your congregation the gift of Purpose and the Courage to be the person God created each one to be.
“Before I shaped you in the womb I knew you, before you saw the light of day, I had plans for you.” Jeremiah 1:5
What if each person in your church truly believed God wrote this verse specifically for them? Imagine if each individual had the courage to be the person God created them to be. Imagine the impact of the Body of Christ if everyone had answers to the following questions…
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Do I have a purpose?
While we are passionate to bring children home to Courage House and see their lives restored and transformed into the purpose God created each child to be, we are also passionate about every single church and person who partners with us and that each one would come to a full understanding of their own destiny and purpose. We have seen this transformation with the army of people that have joined this journey with C2BU and every church that walks alongside us to fight this vicious crime against children.
Purpose Events
- Host a Courage Conference.
- Host an Empower Night (information coming soon)
- Invite C2BU Founder and CEO, Jenny Williamson, to speak at weekend services, women’s event, or youth group.
- Engage the Uniqueness Assessment Bible Study into the women’s ministry calendar.
Partner
We are seeking churches within each community, where we are building Courage Houses, to financially partner with us to welcome children home. We ask that you would prayerfully consider joining us in the fight against the sex trafficking of our children…
Passion
Will you join us to bring awareness to your congregation about the hideous crime of sex trafficking of the children within your community, nation, and world? Bringing awareness will ignite the passion to be a voice for this lost generation of children and change this world one individual at a time, beginning with those that are oppressed and held captive by the chains of this hideous crime. We ask that you would prayerfully consider some or all of the following opportunities to bring awareness to your church congregation:
- Host a Free Courage Concert event.
- Sponsor C2BU for a weekend to raise awareness and allow C2BU information to be shared before and after your church services.
- Identify church liaisons within your congregation to be a voice for C2BU within your church.
- Announce C2BU events to your congregation and provide a vehicle to promote events.
- Establish a table where we can educate your congregation on trafficking of minors in our own community, state, country, and world.
The level of training required to be a C2BU volunteer is determined by the position.
In addition to C2BU’s own requirements, the State of California has rigorous regulations for anyone desiring to work directly with minor children rescued from sex trafficking. These children have suffered trauma and abuse from adults most of their lives, so it is important that we train and prepare C2BU volunteers and employees in the area of trauma so they are equipped, encouraged and empowered to lovingly and appropriately serve these young ladies. A large percentage of these vulnerable children have lived transit lives, never experiencing the consistent, loving support of a family and home. We at C2BU desire to stop that cycle and provide them a safe home as well as long-term, loving relationships with emotionally healthy adults. To ensure the State of California regulations are met, C2BU has partnered with the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy and other community leaders to provide the highest training standards and resources for our volunteers and employees.
When you have completed the mandatory 3 hour prerequisite meeting and the required 21 hours of training, you will be eligible to apply for positions at Courage House (both volunteer and paid) as well as community positions that work with this population and in some cases law enforcement and juvenile hall.
Training costs: $150 – covers all training materials
Back ground check, drug testing and health screenings will be required for an additional cost if you are selected as a volunteer or hired as an employee.
For those of you looking for other volunteer or employment opportunities that do not include working with minor victims of sex trafficking this training is not required. However, it is mandatory to attend one of our monthly informational orientations. These opportunities will be sent out via our monthly Enews blasts. In the meantime, if you have any questions please send an email to volunteer@c2bu.org.
To obtain the C2BU CERTIFIED VOLUNTEER status one must complete the following:
Attend the prerequisite meeting
Complete C2BU Certified Volunteer Training
For more information or question please email volunteer@c2bu.org
