Our annual Celebration is coming up on June 29th!
This event is full of fun & fellowship, with great food and entertaining GFN trivia and awards to honor outstanding congregations and leadership!
We use this event to tell OUR STORY – you’ll definitely want to hear the ‘behind the scenes’ of our campaigns this year… 🙂
This is also the culmination of our annual investment drive: Every Network Member is asked to consider investing financially in the work if they choose, but it is never a requirement for belonging.
We hope you’ll join us for a good time on the 29th!
What happened at the Nehemiah Action?
For a FULL recap, you’ll want to come to the Celebration on 6/29!
In short, we gathered and heard about:
- the OPENING of a mental health crisis stabilization center!
- This is something the Good Faith Network first asked for at our 2022 Nehemiah Action. It was a beautiful, full-circle moment in our mental health campaign.
- We continue to work with Johnson County Mental Health Center to push the discussion forward on involuntary crisis treatment.
- a revolutionary program for seniors looking to age in place, called CAPABLE, that will be coming to Johnson County in the Fall of 2025!
- After bringing their attention to CAPABLE, the Good Faith Network gained a commitment from the state to partially fund the first pilot year of CAPABLE in Johnson County!
- The Good Faith Network will be convening a stakeholder roundtable this month to close the remaining funding gap and lay the foundation for scaling up this much-needed resource in the future!
During our Housing & Homelessness presentation, attendees wrote the names of loved ones who are suffering from the lack of affordable housing in our community on red paper hearts.
We prayed for a breakthrough on an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that night…
Despite a room full of Johnson County constituents asking for action on a solution that even the county has recommended to itself for 17 years… Chairman Mike Kelly turned down the opportunity to swap out a sunsetting sales tax for one that could fund an Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
While the outcome was disappointing, our network’s resolve has not been shaken.
In a public comment at the next Board of County Commissioner’s meeting, Pastor Tim Suttle declared, backed by a room full of GFN supporters:
“Until the county takes meaningful action to permanently supply public dollars to affordable housing, we’ll be here—unrelenting—insisting on justice and safety for every single person who has nowhere safe to sleep tonight. Because that’s what public safety for everyone looks like.”
Above: May 8th, 2025 – The Good Faith Network packed the Johnson County Commission hearing room, making it unmistakably clear:
the people want affordable housing!
