about us
our mission statement
Our mission is to help youth discover and do what they love with their lives in service of others.
We are able to accomplish this task by providing youth with ongoing support and nurturing as they begin the important process of shaping themselves, and are shaped, in spirit and faith and attempt to identify their unique gifts and talents.
This work entails beginning the search for and eventually revealing a purpose for one’s life that is part of the purpose of God, and it also encompasses the progressive shaping and reshaping of one’s chosen aspirations, beliefs and values.
As a non profit, Christian parachurch ministry organization, ‘N Good Company Inc works in close partnership with middle school age youth (12 - 14), their families, and church pastoral leadership to provide exceptional supplemental services for the cultivation of awareness, (both of self and others), agency (capability to make plans, hold values, and exercise choice), practice (see and shape one’s concerns, goals and outcomes) and service (collaboration with and sincere concern for others) within their immediate family, local church and beloved community.
We deliberately make renewed use of proven activities, skills and practices that have been chiefly designed to build up, encourage, and strengthen a youth's faith, church attendance, praying and Bible reading, by asking questions, keeping oneself in a supportive network, participating in small group discussions, service projects, and listening attentively to the insights and wisdom of an intergenerational network that includes their parent(s), pastor(s), teacher(s), coach(es), mentor(s) youth group leader(s), and possible elder helpers in their life, and by practicing making important and well considered choices that best ensure that they are able to make steady progress toward healthy, joyful, and successful adolescent developmental and spiritual formation all of which is needed to triumphantly transition to high school student life and later young adulthood.
As a group of Christian directors, mentors and volunteers we have prayerfully discerned how best to equip our middle school aged youth (12 to 14) in the sacred Christian practices and virtuous Christian principles so that they have the best chance possible of enduring for them well into their middle adulthood.
how we can help
Christian Spiritual Practices
Maranatha Yoga/A Preparation for Christian Meditation
Christian Meditation/Daily Prayer (Harmony of Body, Mind and Spirit)
Christian Scripture Study/Forest Bathing/Nature Journaling/Spiritual Poetry or Spoken Word Performance/Storytelling
Keeping Christian Sabbath/Sacred Gathering/Liturgy/Liturgical, Worship or African American Christian Church Praise Dancing, Gospel Miming, Holy Hip-hop & Stepping, Sacred Dance/Ushering
Self Care & Community Service
Creating Sacred Space for Devotional Time at Home
Listening to Christian Hip Hop/Spiritual Jazz/Gospel Music
Washing Dishes/Washing Clothes/Cleaning House (Being Present)
Caring for an Ailing Parent/Someone with Special Needs/Random Acts of Kindness
Activism/Equity/Inclusion/Social Justice
spiritual Coaching & Life Skills instruction
SQ21 Spiritual Intelligence Coaching/Re-imagining
Life Skills Instruction/Personal Goal Setting
Positive Thinking/Self-talk vs. Negative Self-talk
Spiritual Signs/Sacred Spaces/ Symbols of Faith/Pilgrimage Touring
The Yale Divinity School: Youth Ministry Institute (YMI) Flourishing Life Project
Additional Services UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Facebook Uplifting Daily Posts
LinkedIn Monthly Newsletter
Maranatha Christian Karate
Weekly Podcast/Youtube/Monthly Zoom Meeting Topical Discussion w/Guest Speakers
“YOU ARE MORE APT TO FIND YOUR TRUE SELF IN THE MIDST OF GOOD COMPANY.“
HOW WILL WE MONITOR PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND INSURE ACCOUNTABILITY?
Identify outcomes used by similar programs as a starting point for identifying our own outcomes.
Construct logic models to help realistically identify outcomes of key programs
Select outcome indicators, considering factors such as relevance, importance, understandability, extent of program control over the outcome, and the feasibility and cost of data collection.
Obtain data from official records—of the program and other similar programs.
Address information sharing and confidentiality issues.
Use surveys as sources of pertinent data.
Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS)
Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWS)
Spirituality Assessment Scale (SAS)
Personal Experience Inventory (PEI)
Children’s Coping Strategies (CCSC)
Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES)
Life Satisfaction Scale
Shift and Persist (Child)
Shift and Persist (Teen, Adult)
Spiritual Sensitivity Scale
Spiritual Transformation Inventory (STI)
Meaning In Life Questionnaire (MLQ)
Purpose in Life (PIL) Questionnaire
African American Adolescent Hope Scale
Establish data collection procedures.
Present data using breakouts, comparisons, and explanatory information to make it more useful.
Use findings to strengthen programs.
WHAT KIND OF PERSON WILL I BECOME IF I DEVOTE MYSELF TO LEARNING THESE beneficial habits, LIFE SKILLS & SPIRITUAL PRACTICES?
MEET THE FOUNDER
Mr. Jonathan Dunnemann is the Founder and President of ‘N Good Company, Inc a community driven, faith-based, non-profit, Christian parachurch Youth Ministry organization dedicated to assisting New Jersey middle school age youth (12 - 14) successful transition to high school through attentive listening, creative thinking, broad life skills instruction, spiritual practices coaching, by promoting self care and exhibiting community caring, online and in-person group workshops, and other beneficial learning opportunities. Raised in the towns of Montclair, West Caldwell, and East Orange, Jonathan attended elementary, junior high school and high school in his local area where he participated in church, the cub scouts, the YMCA basketball program and annual summer camps, school sports, and other extracurricular activities (i.e., school newspaper, student government, black student union) and held a number of part-time jobs in his senior year of high school (Gino’s & KFC cook, City of East Orange painter helper, and Mobil gas station attendant).
Jonathan was raised in an African American single parent household in his high school years where education was emphasized and Christian principles were taught to be powerful; after graduating from Clifford J. Scott High School in East Orange, Jonathan obtained his Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jonathan has been conditionally admitted to the Master of Arts (Spirituality) online program at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. After years of independent research on “emotional intelligence” (EQ) and “spirituality”, he became familiar with the inspiring work of Cindy Wigglesworth, President of Conscious Pursuits, Inc and author of Sq21: The Twenty-one Skills of Spiritual Intelligence which concretely establishes how spiritual intelligence like emotional intelligence is absolutely essential to mature leadership. According to Cindy Wigglesworth, “Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) is defined… as the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion, while maintaining inner and outer peace (equanimity), regardless of the circumstances”. Understanding how instrumental this principle is in working with, instructing and leading others. Jonathan decided to take a formal self-awareness assessment and upon review of the results chose to begin formal training to become an SQ21 Certified Coach through Deep Change, Inc located in Houston, Texas. In 2019, upon completion of the training he entered into a licensed agreement to use the materials authored by Conscious Pursuits, Inc (CPI) and licensed to Deep Change, Inc in conjunction with that methodology in the coaching of others. As a Certified SQ21 Coach, Jonathan asserts that even though his chosen faith is that of Christianity, he does not put forward that there exists any one preferred way for an individual to achieve spiritual intelligence. “We get to the core of religion by going to the heart experience, Matthew Fox says, not by dwelling on doctrines that so easily divide even within religious traditions.”
Jonathan was employed for twenty years as a bank officer in the financial services industry, he also worked for ten years in food services, residential administration and patient access services, all in healthcare related settings and he is generally viewed as an expert in the field of patient satisfaction. Jonathan is now retired, both he and his wife Wilda recently celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary, and they live in a retirement community located in Lakewood, New Jersey. He enjoys spending as much time as he can studying Christian historical role models; Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, John Main, Bede Griffiths, Wayne Teasdale, James H. Cone, and Thomas Keating.
After many years of lived experience, overcoming different personal struggle, deep regular reflection, and the sharpening of his servant leadership skills, Jonathan has become keenly focused on being an excellent Certified SQ21 Coach to middle school age Black male youth and other persons between the ages of 12 and 14, thereby also fulfilling his long held goal of birthing a non-profit company that introduces adolescent youth to useful material, practices and tools that will serve to deepen their overall awareness, strengthens their inner life, and shapes their character in meaningful and long-lasting ways, and with the overriding goal of not only benefiting the individual, but their family and their local community as well.
In keeping with this, ‘N Good Company, Inc was founded in 2019. In May of 2020, the organization became a fully formed 501(c)(3) in the State of New Jersey with tremendous support coming from Jonathan’s family, friends, and a number of his former mentors. Creation of the ‘N Good Company, Inc website was successfully completed in December 2020.