calls Christ Lord to provide the emotional and relational environment God has for all of us. Clearly along the way there must be an internal, personal commitment to seek out support and invest in a Christ-centered community. Yet, when it takes ten to fifteen years longer to move into interdependency as an adult—and the adolescent/emerging adult journey is by definition a time of transition, self-focus, and vulnerability—the onus falls on the mature in the community to initiate sustaining structures