East St. Louis, IL 62210

Living Learning In Faith Everyday (LLIFE)

Building tomorrow's leaders and communities

LLIFE's   Founder

Dr. Gerald A. Higginbotham

We Need Your Help

LLIFE's training supports the building of self-contained and self-sustaining communities.  The need is urgent. 

The existing state of affairs - focus on dependency, being programmed, selfishness, and a consumer mindset - needs to change if we are to migrate to a place of knowledge, wealth, and power. 

LLIFE will change this direction with the following approach:

We bridge the opportunity divide by operating systematically, within a highly defined plan.

We use leveraged resources - Networking - for a common goal.

We help communities re-build one business at a time, building and sharing assets.

LLIFE’s leadership training strategy is designed to improve participant’s knowledge of general and not-for-profit business management, applied leadership, project management, positive team participation, personal wellness, success networking, tax planning, and the political process.  Its business development and implementation strategies are designed to support the integration of learning and action that results in the creation of sustainable business enterprise. 

LLIFE’s programs and collaborative projects also accomplish the following:

1.      Provide values-based, community-focused leadership management training with an experiential component to targeted adult groups.  The focus is Networking to achieve strategic goals, and developing mission-critical leadership skills.

2.      Provide support critical to developing measurable success in  projects that will favorable impact the community.

3.      Provide community living skills education with an experiential component to targeted youth groups that will heighten their understanding of personal responsibility, how to make a positive difference through community activism, and introduce them to Networking to support community economics and values.

4.      Provide financial literacy training that has an experiential component to targeted youth groups. Training will deliver measurable change in their understanding of money.  

5.  Ultimately, have a community of members who are thoroughly versed in best practices of servant leadership, who are financially astute, and who practice community building and economic reciprocity.