Partnership in the Gospel
9:55 AM Posted by CANBlog
Over the past four years, the New Life Center (NLC) has gone through many wonderful changes. With 70% of the residents attending college and nearly everyone with a steady income, we are celebrating our successes. Still, we continue to look for new opportunities for our guys and ways to improve our services. We have been seeking a drug rehabilitation facility that is biblically based and also new ways to recruit godly men to mentor our residents. Over the past three months God has been at work connecting us to different ministries who can supply these very needs.
At one point, one of our NLC residents needed a new drug treatment facility. I contacted Larry Randall, the counselor on staff at Birchman Baptist Church, and he referred me to Hugh Huber with Kingdom Authority Ministries.
Larry and Hugh “coincidentally” met on a plane ride on the way back to Fort Worth from a biblical counseling conference in Indiana several months ago. I was just amazed how the Lord then made the connection for what our resident needed at just the right time. We do serve an on-time God! Since that time, two of our residents have begun a restoration and change process with the help of Kingdom Authority Ministries.
Hugh and his wife founded Kingdom Authority Ministries on their ranch in Waxahachie several years ago. Their desire is to make an investment in the lives of broken men through intensive discipleship. For the residents of the New Life Center who have relapsed, it gives them an opportunity to receive treatment in a facility where the primary emphasis is the teaching of God’s Word. When Hugh and I last visited over the phone, we talked about how we were so thankful that we could partner together in the gospel. As Paul writes to the Philippians: “I thank my God in every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.” (Phil 1:3-5)
NLC has also had a unique opportunity to partner with a local ministry, Remedy for This Heart, whose strategy is to befriend a formerly homeless man and begin to connect him with lasting solutions. This organization, founded by Trevor DeVage, has been touring the country raising awareness about the needs of the poor. During that time, they befriended Kyle Frey, who at that time was homeless, and began connecting him with lasting solutions. They first brought Kyle tothe New Life Center in April for an intake interview. Today, Kyle is ready for college beginning this fall and will be entering the New Life Center as one of our residents. Trevor and his team are but one example of what mentoring relationships look like at the New Life Center. The success of NLC’s mentoring program will be due in large measure to our mentors: godly men who sense a call from God to invest in other men. If you sense the call to be a mentor, or know someone who might, please send me an e-mail at mboerger@canetwork.org.
At one point, one of our NLC residents needed a new drug treatment facility. I contacted Larry Randall, the counselor on staff at Birchman Baptist Church, and he referred me to Hugh Huber with Kingdom Authority Ministries.
Larry and Hugh “coincidentally” met on a plane ride on the way back to Fort Worth from a biblical counseling conference in Indiana several months ago. I was just amazed how the Lord then made the connection for what our resident needed at just the right time. We do serve an on-time God! Since that time, two of our residents have begun a restoration and change process with the help of Kingdom Authority Ministries.
Hugh and his wife founded Kingdom Authority Ministries on their ranch in Waxahachie several years ago. Their desire is to make an investment in the lives of broken men through intensive discipleship. For the residents of the New Life Center who have relapsed, it gives them an opportunity to receive treatment in a facility where the primary emphasis is the teaching of God’s Word. When Hugh and I last visited over the phone, we talked about how we were so thankful that we could partner together in the gospel. As Paul writes to the Philippians: “I thank my God in every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.” (Phil 1:3-5)
NLC has also had a unique opportunity to partner with a local ministry, Remedy for This Heart, whose strategy is to befriend a formerly homeless man and begin to connect him with lasting solutions. This organization, founded by Trevor DeVage, has been touring the country raising awareness about the needs of the poor. During that time, they befriended Kyle Frey, who at that time was homeless, and began connecting him with lasting solutions. They first brought Kyle tothe New Life Center in April for an intake interview. Today, Kyle is ready for college beginning this fall and will be entering the New Life Center as one of our residents. Trevor and his team are but one example of what mentoring relationships look like at the New Life Center. The success of NLC’s mentoring program will be due in large measure to our mentors: godly men who sense a call from God to invest in other men. If you sense the call to be a mentor, or know someone who might, please send me an e-mail at mboerger@canetwork.org.
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