NXT Updates

Stories, milestones, and behind-the-scenes from the NXT initiative.

Keeping Families Together

For a mother facing a life-threatening illness, few questions are more heartbreaking than this: “What will happen to my children?” For more than 25 years, H.E.A.R.T. (Health Education Africa Resource Team) has been helping vulnerable mothers across Kenya answer that question with hope. Working in…

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Hope Without Borders

For teenagers across Central and Eastern Europe, life can be filled with uncertainty. Some are searching for belonging. Others are wrestling with loneliness, fear, or questions about their future. And for Ukrainian teens displaced by war, everything familiar may feel painfully far away. But through…

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YOU are making room for HOPE!

Bayside Counseling Center NEW Building Life can be heavy. Anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, and seasons of uncertainty can affect anyone, even people with strong faith and loving communities around them. For more than 25 years, Bayside’s Counseling Center has been a place where…

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The Courage of Kids. The Strength of Community.

There are moments that change a family forever. Sometimes it's a fever that won't go away. A bruise that doesn't heal. Then comes the diagnosis no parent ever expects to hear: Cancer. In an instant, life becomes hospital stays, treatment plans, financial strain, and an…

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He Kept His Promise

What began as one teacher's broken heart has become a mission to share God's love by meeting practical needs. While George Hanson taught math in a rural village in Ghana, he witnessed staggering levels of poverty, hardship, and suffering. Most families lived on an average…

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