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InFaith - Why We Reach the Nation
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At the end of the day, the mission is very clear: serving those who are more disenfranchised gives you a closer look at the ways of Jesus. – Emily Mitchell, Full-time missionary in Philadelphia, PA. As a nation, we are broken, lost, and in desperate need of hope. When people feel like there's no one who can help them or...
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Local Reach: Port Orchard, Washington
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A story of reaching local and changing lives in Port Orchard, Washington, with Larry and Vonnie Pratt. Sometimes God places you in the right place at the right time. InFaith missionaries Larry and Vonnie Pratt are puppeteers who travel all over the West Coast—and didn’t realize how important their next performance would be.
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Doris and Dave's ministry update
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Local Reach: Milford, Kansas
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At 16 years old, Kiah was struggling with anxiety and depression. She was isolating from her parents and hanging out with friends who encouraged her in gender identity struggles. She had turned her back on the God of her childhood. She was angry all the time, considered herself gender fluid, and agnostic. “But God was working even when I wasn’t...
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The Mira Kim Candidate Story
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Mira Kim’s Candidate Story: The Journey to Ministry “From a very young age I knew that I lived between two different cultures. When I became a youth missionary it became very clear that God was calling me to work with refugees.” Mira was looking for a position in which to serve refugees, so she did a Google search and found...
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The Emily Mitchell Candidate Story
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“I was in line for the next big step at my job, but I knew I wanted to serve God in a different way.” So how does someone transition from a career to serving in full-time ministry? Emily continued to work at her job full time for about a year while she was raising funds to become a missionary with...
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InFaith serving the underserved and underreached with Jerry Iamurri
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Local Reach: Fort Polk, Louisiana
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Soldiers face a unique set of challenges in their daily lives, often filled with hardships. But who can they turn to when they are overwhelmed or discouraged and need someone to listen? Chaplains walk alongside soldiers and go through the challenges and struggles they face every day. Chaplains are the calming presence that soldiers need when their lives can seem...
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The Jasperson Story
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Doris and Dave Jasperson: Reaching Local in Rice Lake, Wisconsin It doesn’t matter what your addiction is. It could be alcohol, meth, heroin, pornography, gambling. There’s just no recovery without Jesus. When I first connected with InFaith I was encouraged by more than one person to look local. It hit me over time that I already had connections in place...
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The Dayna Carr Story
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Dayna Carr: Reaching Local in Greensboro, North Carolina At the core of everything is relationship. We live here. We are residents in this community, and we are neighbors to the people that surround us. As you live in and become part of the fabric of the community, you more clearly understand the needs there. I spent a summer here in...
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The Betty Glover Story
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Betty Glover: Reaching Local in LaFollette, Tennessee In 1958, InFaith’s Betty Glover, armed with her nursing knowledge and the gospel of Christ, moved to the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to minister to those living in poverty. Her nursing career could have taken her anywhere, but it beckoned her to the poorest areas of these mountains, caring for needs that called...
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Hidden Local: Homeless Youth
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Hidden Local — A Young Man’s Journey Out of Homelessness “I’d probably still be living under a bridge if it wasn’t for an InFaith youth shelter.” Instead of going to school, Zach* spent his days scrounging for food and figuring out where he would sleep each night after his dad abandoned him when he was just 16-years-old. He soon started...
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Hidden Local: Unseen Realities
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Hidden Local — A Portrayal of One Woman's True Story Our country has a hidden underbelly—sex trafficking, drug abuse, and homelessness. It’s here in our own country. But there are ministries that reach out to the people and systems that make up this evil, often-unseen part of our nation. However, these pockets of needs throughout the United States are so...
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The Casady Story
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Gary & Linda Casady: Reaching Local in The Dalles, Oregon I’m Gary Cassady and my wife and I work with the Youth Empowerment Shelter here in The Dalles.* A lot of kids around here are in crisis. We felt like someone needed to do something. Once the kids enter the house we see them move from agitation to peace. We...