In addition to the stories here, The Northwest Network Foundation is involved in lives that span the globe. Below are a few of the ways your support impacts lives:
Costa Rica: A former 18th Street Gang member who lived in my home is now living in Costa Rica. He has been a prison chaplain, a worker amongst the poor, the addicted, and the outcast. He is making a difference.
The Middle East and Asia: We distribute and support the work of getting Bibles and discipleship materials into “closed” countries. I personally take teams and will continue, too. It is grueling, intense, exhausting, and life-giving. We have done three home makeovers for families in need and seen these homes used to reach young people with the Gospel of Jesus. Homes and lives were transformed.
We were able to come alongside of a family to help provide a car when family tragedy struck.
Around the globe: I have taken young men overseas (and will continue, too) to touch, and to hear the voices of those crying out for a better way. It has transformed their lives and today they are all deeply engaged in efforts to take the message of Jesus to those who have no access to His message.They would say that they “have been wrecked.”
We have aided domestic and foreign missionaries that venture into those places others say are too dangerous. They are the courageous ones and would echo what my friend Brother Andrew often said: “It’s dangerous? Go anyway.”
We were able – and hopefully will continue – to provide tuition for several students whose family was financially setback due to an unwanted divorce.
“Presence is more important than proclamation. With, then words.”
What I do via the umbrella of The Northwest Network Foundation has little to do with programs. This is difficult for some to get their head around. But what I do is relationship. It’s what Jesus did. But in those encounters Jesus intersected the poor and the powerful; the broken and the upright.
He embraced the sick and those who were “healthy.” He did life with them. Discipleship is ALL about doing life with others and when one does life with others, they encounter their poverty and their brokenness, their power and their joy. They encounter their world. In each case it has demanded a response. It demands an engagement into their pain and into their joy. It demands… sacrifice.
THANK YOU for engaging my life and for sacrificing your resources so that I might engage the lives of the many.
