141-NYC is a dream and a vision for a better world, starting at the source: the community. It is a community drawn together by a message of hope that is relevant for both this world and the next.
At its most basic level, 141-NYC is the heart and dream of Brian and Kelly Petersen. It is our vision to help create a community in the beautiful, amazing city of New York where people are loved face to face, walls are broken down, and assumptions are challenged.
Our heart is for the disenfranchised and downtrodden. We seek to identify with those who society refuses to see: the rejected, the outcast, the "invisible people." Some call them street kids, homeless, or vagrants. We simply call them the poor, and we believe in a God who loves the poor unfailingly.
141-NYC is a new project, a cross-coastal expansion of the 141 organization based in Portland, Oregon. For the last 2 1/2 years we have spent countless hours with 141, experiencing the privelege of getting to know some of the amazing people living on the streets of downtown Portland. We have laughed, cried, told stories, and listened to the stories of others. We have brought socks, pastries, hoodies and hand warmers to those in need, but mostly we have just hung out. We have discovered beautiful people that have touched our lives, and we hope that through our lives God's grace has touched theirs.
As much as we love our friends in downtown Portland, we believe that a great thing should not be kept isolated. 141 is a unique concept in both the church and social service worlds. It is truly a revolution, and we believe it has the power to change the world. So our desire is to spread the revolution and to help it gain footholds in new territories and among new people.
Right now, 141-NYC is a vision and a plan. It is a framework waiting for flesh. We need your prayers and your help to make it a reality. Will you partner with us in showing God's unfailing love to those the world has cast aside?
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