Outreach

Joseph Travers
Top-Skilled Team Organizes to Rescue Girls Films often capture with a dream – being invited into another world. The cliché, yet heart-pulling words, “And they...

Pastor Lee Jong-rak
One Determined Dad… meet Pastor Lee Jong-rak Almost every night, an alarm rings in the home of Lee Jong-rak and his wife. It signals that a baby...

Brian Ivie
Redirected Director: Brian Ivie When Brian Ivie first read about Pastor Lee Jong-rak’s story in the Los Angeles Times, he immediately thought it would be...

Basketball Player and Model Willie Briscoe
From Basketball Player and Model to Mentor: Willie Briscoe Written by Kelli Gillespie Many kids enter the world of sports and decide they want to...

SERT Ministries Fights Human Trafficking
SERT Ministries: How Simple Acts of Courage Are Changing The Lives of Women In Bondage Across The Nation “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell...

From Strip Club to Criminal Justice
Meet Ex-Stripper Katie Written by Kelli Gillespie Divorced and with two small children, Katie (who asked that her last name not be used) was just...
Parenting: Control the Controllable During COVID
By Kelli Gillespie
Risen Magazine: Parents are overwhelmed, especially now with the current state of the world from pandemic, to homeschooling, black lives matter to wildfires, hurricanes and mental health… what do parents need to know? Cynthia Yanof: There's so much going on that we can hyper focus on any one thing. But ...
Read More Suicide Prevention Week: Anxiety, Mental Health & Biblical Insight
By Kelli Gillespie
Writer: Jim Denison Anxiety is escalating in our culture. According to recent surveys, more Americans than ever before are stressed, depressed, and anxiety-ridden. Nearly forty million people in the US (18 percent) experience an anxiety disorder in any given year. Anxiety disorders are the most common and pervasive mental disorders in America. ...
Read More Faith, Social Justice, and the NBA Bubble: Coaches & Players Speak Up
By Kelli Gillespie
Writer: Charlie Lapastora Phoenix Suns' Head Coach Monty Williams With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting operations down across the world, impacting people’s jobs, health, well-being -- it also included professional sports in the United States. Leagues like the NBA came to a sudden halt, as they were the first of the ...
Read More Stressed? You’re Not Alone Finding Peace in a Pandemic with First15 Craig Denison
By Kelli Gillespie
It’s been quite the year to say the least. No one could’ve predicted what has become 2020 and many are in situations they never thought they would find themselves in. From quarantine to remote working, social distance learning to homeschooling, connecting through technology, and the list continues… stressed and overwhelmed ...
Read More Darryl Strawberry: Mentorship and His Ministry
By Kelli Gillespie
Baseball season has kicked off and we talked to 4x World Series champion and 8x all-star Darryl Strawberry about mentorship, advice from his mom, and how he spends his days helping people find their way with Strawberry Ministries.
Read More Mostra: Faith, Favor and Finding the Farmers with the Best Beans
By Kelli Gillespie
Part 2 For husband and wife team, Sam and Beverly Magtanong, and best friend Jelynn Malone, deciding to found Mostra coffee to sustain farmers in the Philippines was the easy part. Yes, it was a big vision, but they felt called to do it. The hard part was identifying, how? ...
Read More Mostra: More Than Specialty Coffee How the Vision of Four Friends is Changing Lives
By Kelli Gillespie
What happens when an opera singer, an actress, a culinary expert and a former Army Infantry Officer have a shared vision? The open a coffee shop. Not just any coffee shop, a specialty coffee shop sustaining farmers in the Philippines that just happened to be named 2020 Micro-Roaster of the ...
Read More Ready…Set…Go!
By Trish Teves
Where You Want To Be Tours Multiple award-winning tour guide and scavenger hunt company, Where You Want To Be Tours, is an out-of-the-box, outdoor, customized adventure for corporate and leisure clients. Offering experiences like Culinary Team Building and Downtown Urban Scavenger Hunts for adults, to Build A Bike For Charity ...
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