Charlton County, GA · North Florida Border

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A trade skill and the discipline to keep what it pays — planted together, in a community that's been asked to choose between the two for too long.

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The Ledger

Statement of need

01Unfilled jobs across Florida, most in the skilled trades427,000
02Share of Florida's trade workforce under age 25<10%
03Financial-literacy questions the average U.S. adult answers correctly49%
04Same score, for Gen Z specifically38%
05Child poverty rate in Baker County, on our southern border19.3%

Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Associated Builders and Contractors of Florida · TIAA Institute–GFLEC P-Fin Index, 2025 · DataUSA / U.S. Census ACS

Two accounts, one investment

Trade Pathways

Seeds to Skills

Paid apprenticeship on-ramps in electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and carpentry — matched directly to local contractors who are short-handed today.

Cohort → Placement · ~6 mo.

Financial Literacy

Seeds to Savings

Budgeting, credit, and first-paycheck onboarding for youth, young adults, and families — timed to land right when the income does.

Youth · Adult · Family · Ongoing

Community, on the record

Photo galleries

Court Lighting Project

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Neighbors, volunteers and local trade crews raising new LED light poles over the community basketball court — from the first pole set in concrete to the first night of play under the lights.

New Stadium Lighting

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The Legacy Project: a $20,000 Georgia Power grant, volunteer crews and neighbors turning an open field into a lit ballfield, new bleachers and a playground the whole community can use after dark.

County Commissioners Making It Official

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County leadership joining the neighborhood at the park — remarks on the court, a community cookout, dominoes in the shade, and the volunteers who keep it all running.

Park & Playground

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The playground and green space at the community park, kept open and maintained for families in the neighborhood.

Our Story

How it started

Sowing Seeds Outside the Walls started with a question. In May of 2020, our founder, Antwon Nixon, felt something missing in our community and asked God for direction. What came back was a call to take the church outside — literally. He founded Church Outside the Walls, and every fifth Sunday we'd move worship into a local park, open to whoever wanted to come.

That instinct — giving on purpose, with purpose — grew into Sowing Seeds Outside the Walls. We built a board, filed for nonprofit status, and became an official 501(c)(3). Antwon even hand-drew our logo before we had it professionally digitized and copyrighted through the Library of Congress.

From there, the work took shape. Every fifth Saturday became Community Day — free food, games, bounce houses, water slides, a chance for neighbors to just be together. We started mentoring young boys in the trades, in leadership, in what it means to take care of where you live. Some of those boys helped clean up Chatman Mobley Park; several turned their whole trajectory around and got rewarded for it with a trip to Washington, D.C. — first flights for most of them, meetings with government officials, a visit to the White House.

We didn't stop with the boys. We started reaching their fathers too, and other men in the community who'd hit hard times and needed a way back. We chartered a bus and took a group of men and boys to D.C. together — some of them had never left Georgia. They came back having learned something about networking, about fatherhood, about giving back instead of just getting by.

Along the way, we adopted a local park and rebuilt its basketball court from the ground up — new goals, new backboards, a fresh coat of paint. We received a $5,000 grant from the OERC Foundation. We partnered with other nonprofits to give away bicycles in a community toy drive. And when a family needed a car to get to work, we made sure they got one.

None of this is finished. It's just the start of what giving on purpose looks like around here.

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