A CIRCLE OF COMPASSION: Galatians 6:2 (KJV) We Help As We Heal.
Galatians 6:2 (KJV)
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
This captures the heart of a compassionate circle—helping others while God heals us.
Skills City, USA: A Visionary Trauma-Informed Care, Workforce Preparedness, and Help While We Heal Ministry at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Texas 76104.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS —
What began as a practical partnership between the New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church of Fort Worth and Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County has grown into a calling—a movement toward restoration, resilience, and renewed purpose for some of the most vulnerable families in our city by providing spiritually safe spaces to heal and rebuild their families.
In the heart of 76104, where pain has been deep and hope has been stretched thin, God is stirring a new work at New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church. Through prayer, partnership, and prophetic imagination, Pastor Kyev Tatum is shaping a vision that brings together workforce preparedness, trauma-informed care, therapeutic gardening, and community service with compassion into one Spirit-led circle of healing.
Seeing the Invisible Through a Pastor’s Heart
From the beginning, Pastor Tatum recognized that the people coming through New Mount Rose’s doors were carrying more than unemployment—they were carrying trauma.
Many came with wounds:
• emotional wounds
• spiritual wounds
• family wounds
• generational wounds
He discerned a deeper truth from the Lord:
“Before they can work, they must heal.
Before they can rise, they must be restored.
Before they can grow, they need soil—spiritually and physically.”
This vision did not arrive fully formed. It emerged through prayer, compassion, and decades of serving “the least of these” in 76104.
Skills City, USA: A Pathway Forged in Faith
From this pastoral conviction came the idea for Skills City, USA—a comprehensive ecosystem built on four pillars:
1. Work ethic and workforce readiness.
2. Trauma-informed care and emotional stability.
3. A grace-filled community service where participants heal as they help.
4. A future Healing Garden and Urban Farming Ministry to ground people in God’s creation and economic self-sufficiency.
Some of these pillars are in place. Others are still being shaped.
But the vision is clear: healing + skills + community + creation = transformation.
The Healing Garden and Farming Ministry (A Vision in Progress)
One of the most promising parts of this vision is the emerging Healing Garden—a planned sacred space where healthy eating, therapeutic gardening, and hands-on learning come together.
The garden is not fully built yet.
The farm is not fully established.
But the dream is taking root.
In Pastor Tatum’s vision, this space will one day allow participants to:
• Grow fresh produce
• Learn healthy food preparation
• Experience therapeutic gardening
• Reconnect with nature and God
• Practice teamwork, patience, and stewardship and become economically self sufficient in today’s agricultural economy.
The garden will become a living classroom where:
• soil heals stress,
• plants teach patience,
• harvest builds confidence,
• and the land itself becomes a sanctuary.
This is ministry in the making—faith reaching toward the future.
The Resilience Responders: Help As We Heal.
With or without a garden, the philosophy remains the same: we help as we heal.
Participants learn emotional resilience, spiritual grounding, and readiness for work through Chapel with the Pastor, hands-on community service, biblical business teaching, and peer support.
This model honors the truth that helping others is often a pathway to healing oneself.
The Choices Program: Faith Lifting Families Forward.
Skills City aligns seamlessly with the Texas Choices Program, helping TANF families take confident steps toward stability through:
• Workforce training
• Job search support
• Education and skill-building
• Access to childcare, clothing, and resources
This partnership echoes the church’s long-standing belief:
every family deserves dignity, opportunity, and a chance to rise.
The Resilient Church Collective: Strengthening the Healers
Through the leadership of Ms. Sherrye Ellison Willis and the Alliance for Greater Works, New Mount Rose is being equipped to understand trauma, respond with compassion, and create spiritually safe spaces for healing.
This training empowers the entire church—pastors, staff, and volunteers—to serve with wisdom, empathy, and grace.
Collaboration as a Spiritual Calling
The Alliance for Greater Works, having empowered leaders across Texas for 24 years, has become a vital partner in shaping this vision. Their guidance affirms that healing is not done alone—it is done in community.
Because when God’s people collaborate, the harvest always multiplies.
A Faith-Based Model for the Future
The combined vision of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church, Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County, and the Alliance for Greater Works is creating a blueprint for holistic, faith-based community restoration.
A model where:
• Brokenness becomes belonging.
• Pain becomes purpose.
• Trauma becomes testimony.
• Gardens become gateways to grace—even before the first seed is planted.
This is more than a ministry.
More than a program.
More than a plan.
This is a circle of compassion—a vision where healing, learning, working, and growing are woven together like roots in God’s soil.
Here, people will not only find jobs.
They will find hope.
They will find healing.
They will find purpose.
They will find themselves—restored, strengthened, and planted by the rivers of God’s grace.
Contact
Pastor Kyev Tatum
817-966-7625
kptatum1@gmail.com
www.newmountrose.com
Please Donate via Zelle: newmtrosembc@gmail.com
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