OUR HISTORY
In the summer of 2012, a group of friends hit the streets of Greensboro, NC to pray for and tell others about the incredible love of Jesus. One Monday night a woman we had met called and asked for us to come pray with her again. We met her on the corner of Greene and Washington Street, (in front of the Courthouse). After we prayed, a man walked up to tell our new friend how he had just gotten a job. We asked if we could pray for him as he started this new venture. After we prayed for him, he asked if we would come pray for his friends. His friends were across the street sleeping in the bus stop shelter. After we prayed, the men told us they did not have a place to eat on Monday nights. We went and got them a meal and suggested that the following week we could bring food to have a picnic together. Over the years, through heat, cold, wind, and snow, our "picnic" every Monday night grew to 200+ people each week. We came each week to bring people a nice meal, get connected to other services needed, find addiction treatment, or just get a hug, a prayer, have a conversation, and be loved by friends. Miracles happened in that place.
After providing this meal every week for 12+ years, we felt a stirring of the Lord that we were to hand over that part of our outreach ministry to others who share our love for those we served. It was an incredibly hard transition but we followed His leading as this season came to a close and another began. We served our last Monday night meal on September 30th 2024, just a few days after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina. Two days later, we were in the mountains for the first of many trips of ministry on the ground (and MANY more days spent coordinating from home).
From the beginning, the call of our ministry has been to bring the love and transformative power of Jesus to lives to REnew, REstore, REfocus and REpurpose as only He can do. 2024 brought a shifting, yet the call remains the same. We are committed to bring the hope that is found only in Him.
One way we feel led to do this is by bringing solid, biblical teaching on our freedom in Christ with practical ways to walk it out. The release of our book, Free INDEED, has been a huge part of this. We have been in awe of what the Lord is doing in the lives of those who have read and worked through the book. It has been a great honor to pray with people and see lives transformed as Jesus heals and delivers. No matter how long we have walked with Jesus, there are still areas of our hearts that need Him to be renewed, restored, refocused, and repurposed. We will be offering more live teaching, workshops, and conferences in the coming months. Please contact us if you would like to attend or host a Free INDEED event.
As we felt His heartbeat doing disaster relief, we are currently going through additional chaplaincy training to be better prepared going forward.