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Encouraging sinners, servants, and sufferers with the friendship of God.

The story of Job’s suffering has challenged readers for millenia.

The biblical account honors Job and his story, and it highlights the compassionate friendship of God. For if suffering is aided by endurance, endurance by friendship, and friendship by compassion—then in the end, the truest friend of Job was God Himself.

“We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.”
— James 5:11

Who we are.

  • We serve the church by leveraging our gifts and 20+ years of ministry experience in support of the well-being and flourishing of pastors, church planters, missionaries, and ministry leaders.

    We understand the unique challenges of ministry. So we respect and tend to our fellow sinners, servants, and sufferers through the application of humble, skillful, informed, nuanced, and biblical care, encouragement, and referral.

    We work to stay informed concerning a number of critical topics, including: debrief, third-culture kids (TCKs), trauma, abuse, healthy boundaries, conflict of interest, and more.

What we value.

  • We affirm and serve according to the historic, orthodox Christian faith as represented by the Apostles and Nicene creeds. We also affirm the doctrinal statement of the World Evangelical Alliance

  • The Lord’s ministry was marked by compassion towards people. God’s image bearers are of eternally greater significance than the policies and procedures of men. Though is never divorced from biblical discernment, we choose to lead with compassion.

    Lam 3:21-23; Matt 9:13; 11:28-30; 12:7, 15-21; 1 Pet 3:8-12; Jas 5:10-11

  • We advocate for the Spirit-empowered identity of believers: God’s own image-bearers, children, handiworks, priests, and ambassadors. We promote Spirit-filled reliance upon God, which honors personal agency, faith, freedom, courage, and confidence.

    John 14:12-14; 1 Cor 4:18-21; Eph 2:8-10; 1 Pet 2:1-5

  • The biblical gospel necessitates real humility, which helps us to relate rightly and compassionately with fellow sinners. Repentance is a critical marker of true humility and evidenced by ‘ownership’ of sin, joy in forgiveness, and character transformation.

    Mark 1:14-15; 2:16-17; Luke 13:1-5; 1 Pet 5:5-7; Jas 4:6-10

  • All Christians are sent ones, be it across the street or across the world. Missionary intentionality is expressed by: faith, flexibility, learning, advocacy, courage, nuance, crossing divides, building bridges, shaking the dust from one’s feet, and more.

    Matt 9:35–10:42; 28:18-20; 1 Cor 9:19-23

  • The Sabbath points to Jesus, to Him who has fulfilled every legal demand and requirement for righteousness. Period. And the spirit and command of the sabbath remains, that God’s people would rest in His completed works—the chief act of which is always faith. We encourage the cultivation of routines and traditions that promote rest in the completed works of Christ, by faith.

    Mark 2:23-28; Heb 4:9-11; Col 2:16-17

  • "Then Job got up, tore his robe, and shaved his head; then he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, 'Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.' Despite all this, Job did not sin, nor did he blame God."

    (Job 1:20-22)

  • "Then [Job's] wife said to him, 'Do you still hold firm your integrity? Curse God and die!' But he said to her, 'You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?' Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips."

    (Job 2:9-10)

  • “Be silent before me so that I may speak; then let come upon me what may. Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hands? Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him."

    (Job 13:13-15)

  • "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me. Mockers are certainly with me, and my eye gazes on their provocation."

    (Job 17:1-2)

  • "For He carries out what is destined for me, and many such destinies are with Him. Therefore, I would be terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I am frightened of Him. It is God who has made my heart faint, and the Almighty who has terrified me; but I am not destroyed by darkness, nor by deep gloom which covers me."

    (Job 23:14-17)

  • "But now those who are younger than I mock me, whose fathers I refused to put with the dogs of my flock. ... And now I have become their taunt, and I have become a byword to them. They loathe me and stand aloof from me, and they do not refrain from spitting in my face. Because He [God] has undone my bowstring and afflicted me, they have cast off the bridle before me."

    (Job 30:1, 9-11)

  • "Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written, I would certainly carry it on my shoulder, I would tie it to myself like a garland. I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince, I would approach Him."

    (Job 31:35-37)

  • "Then Job answered the Lord and said, 'I know that You can do all things, and that no plan is impossible for You. "Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?" Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I do not know. "Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me." I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You; therefore I retract, and I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.'”

    (Job 42:1-6)

  • "It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has. Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.'"

    (Job 42:7-8)

  • “We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.”

    (James 5:11)

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