Local Serving

Peder Brakke

MINISTRY: Young Life
CONTACT INFO: Peder Brakke;
MORE INFO: NorthLakeWa.younglife.org
OPPORTUNITIES: Committed Leaders, Northlake Support Team (encouragement to leaders, financial development, community networking), Monthly Financial Support

Young Life is way more being and living than it is saying or preaching. We want to love each and every kid in these schools with the good news of Jesus Christ but believe it needs to happen in a relational way… which takes a community. It takes sacrificial volunteers, caring adults, financial support, and the community to rally around this mission to love the disinterested in Redmond. In Redmond we have one high school and two middle schools (Redmond and Evergreen)… and another two private schools… nearly 5,000 kids in all!

Peder is the Northlake Area Director, so his focus extends to the east and west to include the Lake Washington, Juanita, and Cedarcrest communities as well. We’re continually building, training, and leading folks to enter the world of kids, build friendships, sit with kids when they hurt, and offer them hope that can be found in Jesus. Everyone has a place in this mission.

• Pray for relationships with kids and the opportunity to allow God speak through the leaders, as they share not only the Gospel but their very lives as well.
• Pray that the relationships we build will lead to mountaintop experiences at Club and Camp. Pray also that we can come down from the mountain and continue a lifetime of walking alongside kids and families, offering hope, and pointing to Jesus.
• Pray that new folks will have a passion and calling to lead Young Life.

More Info: Video – A Party with a Purpose

Christifer Tomoson

MINISTRY: Young Life, Greater Bellevue Capernaum
CONTACT INFO: Christifer Tomoson
MORE INFO: www.bellevue.younglife.org

The mission of Young Life is that every adolescent deserves to hear about Jesus Christ and be invited to choose to believe and follow Him, including kids with disabilities! Capernaum is a ministry of Young Life reaching out specifically to kids with disabilities (i.e. Down syndrome, Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, physical disabilities, etc.). Greater Bellevue Capernaum Staff and volunteers are building relationships with kids and their families in Bellevue and Mercer Island. Through YL clubs, camps and friendships, kids with special needs get to hear that they are not a mistake, but created with purpose in God’s image. They create adventure, fun, laughter and friendship for kids who are lonely, friendless and isolated. Young Life Capernaum leaders learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, in order to share and experience Christ fully and unexpectedly.

Aside from ministry to high school and college aged kids (15-25), Young Life Capernaum also partners with local churches to facilitate and support small group Bible studies for adults with disabilities, enabling growth in Christ and friendships beyond adolescent years. Less than 5% of churches have an outreach to people with disabilities, despite 15% of our population having a disability! This partnership is designed for mutual benefit to the Church as well as our friends with special needs.

Check out our video to see more about Young Life Capernaum.

Ways you can pray for Greater Bellevue Capernaum:

• New volunteers of all ages and shapes to be YL leaders and small group facilitators.
• Growing partnerships with local churches who want to reach out to people with disabilities.
• New financial partners and local businesses to join our team.
• Kids with disabilities and their families will come to know Jesus!

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Doug and Kelly Humphreys

MINISTRY: NOVO – ReWire Seattle
CONTACT INFO: doug.humphreys@crmleaders.org,
MORE INFO: www.novo.org

Doug is the Seattle Director of ReWire, a ministry of NOVO.

NOVO works to create movements of committed followers of Jesus by pioneering new ground among the unreached and unchurched, bringing lasting transformation among the poor, and mobilizing the Church for mission.

ReWire brings transformation that creates missionaries: Love for the least, Passion for the lost, Hope for the left out.

The world is increasingly broken; more and more problems, more and more people affected by those problems each day. Jesus is the answer to the problems in the world. His work is through the local church which is called to overcome hell on earth.

In order to do so, the Church must be rewired so that it can validate and empower the contribution every person can make, and create missionaries – ordinary people as missionaries in their own community, Kingdom agents among the poor. ReWire brings the processes to make this happen: Discipleship for a new era, missional spiritual formation offered in both churches and regional training centers; yearlong residential internships run by ReWire in neighborhoods of need; experiential vision trips that bring up close and personal learning from missionaries in places of deep poverty around the globe and more.

Ways you can pray:

• Partnerships with local churches who seek to see transformation and mission in their congregations
• Financial partners necessary to fully launch ReWire Seattle
• Ordinary people discovering and living out their call

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