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For Next Step Staff, the month of May is usually filled with tons of summer planning and lots of excitement as we prepare to train and teach the Summer Staff about the communities they…

Today was the most encouraging reminder to me that God’s plans are bigger than I can perceive. As I continue to work with partners on planning for projects this summer, I am pumped to enter into these ideas knowing in confidence that God has a specific and unique plan for each one.

Sometimes the needs in this city and the total sense of hopelessness within those needs, consume me. I would love to say that over the past year and a half of living in Milwaukee…

I will never forget the first time I visited the Woodlands neighborhood for a cookout during the summer of 2014.

If God truly loved the city of Milwaukee, why wouldn’t He intervene and allow restoration to begin? Hopeless, is how I felt.

As I served stuffing for three hours to hundreds of families and church members I was overwhelmed by the power of unity. The diversity that filled the Evangel’s gym as families young and old ate, served, played, and embraced each other genuinely and authentically, was the most beautiful picture of unity I have ever seen. Unified joy and thankfulness was taking place before my eyes and I got to witness and be a part of it.

Adullam has the tools and resources, but was in need of the right person to implement this big vision.

Read more about Community Leadership Boards and how we are using them to listen to the community. 

In a city that is ranked the most segregated city in the US there is a level of desperation for unity. In the city of Milwaukee it is the community partnerships that truly combat…