Our story
Caleb and Stasia Brake
“I feel called to be a lead pastor, and I want to be a part of starting a movement.”
Our family
[Two or three sentences introducing your family, in your words: who you are, where you live, and your home church.]Stasia and I have talked it through, and we are both on board with starting the residency in August 2027 if I am accepted into it.
Our home church is The Village Church. We have seen so much fruit in our home group there, partly because of the preaching, but mostly because that preaching gets applied in day-to-day discipleship. That is what we want Gracebound to be.
The call
The word of God and the souls of men.
“Only two things are eternal: the word of God and the souls of men.”[Your story: when you heard that line, and why it meant giving your whole life to ministry. Two or three sentences.]
Years in China
Learning another culture from the inside.
“It’s easy to get along with everyone who’s like you, but the glory of the gospel is that it’s broken down the walls of hostility between people groups.”
Online
The Word, then people.
Ministry grows out of two things: deep time with God in the Word, and time with people. Lose the people, and ministry becomes too academic. Lose the deep work with God, and it is driven only by what people feel they need.
That is why I make YouTube videos on the New Testament in English and Chinese, and why YouTube grows out of the local church, and isn’t done apart from it.
The YouTube ministry is funded separately by its viewers. Support for Gracebound funds the church.
Next
See the path from here to launch.