Hope Faith Homeless Ministries

Philip Lesniewski, a JW staff person who oversees outreach and justice ministries, shared a cool story at our staff meeting this morning.

A month or so ago at a Community Compass (a place where people new to JW can come and learn about the church), Philip was approached by a man from our congregation named Seth Iliff. Seth shared with Philip that he was blessed by his experience at JW and wanted to somehow contribute something to the community. Seth is a filmmaker and his company is called kansas city indie. Then sometime after that, Philip had another conversation, this time with Nick Johnson. Nick and his family are a part of the JW community. Nick also serves on the board of directors for Hope-Faith, a ministry serving the homeless community of Kansas City. JW has been connected to Hope-Faith for four to five years. Nick mentioned to Philip that they need to tell the story of Hope-Faith and share some of the needs they have. He wondered if Philip knew anyone who would be willing to donate their skills to make a video for Hope-Faith. Of course, Philip introduced Nick to Seth.

Seth has done an amazing job telling the Hope-Faith story in about six minutes. What is even more amazing is that he only had four days to do this owing to the fact that he is also in the military and was being deployed at the end of those four days.

Please take a few minutes to learn about the incredible people and ministry of Hope-Faith by watching Seth's video.

If you want to see an HD version of the video, check out Seth's Vimeo site here. And listen for Mike Crawford's "Words to Build a LIfe On."

Comments

[Tina]

Wow...that's awesome. The video and the ministry. Have you thought about putting that up on FB?

[Jenifer]

Tim, thank you for posting this on your site. If anyone is interested in serving in any capacity at Hope Faith, please give them my email or have them contact Phil.