2025: Seeds Taking Root, Water Flowing
“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.” - 1 Corinthians 3:5–7
As we look back on 2025, we are filled with gratitude. Not just for what we have done, but for what we have witnessed. Seeds and Water Collective continues to be a place where people who have been spiritually wounded, disoriented, or quietly exhausted can find healing, clarity, and hope.
This year, that work expanded in meaningful ways.
In 2025 alone, we served 173 individuals through counseling, spiritual care, coaching, and experiences. This continues a steady, multi year pattern of growth, from 18 people in 2022, to 54 in 2023, to 119 in 2024. Among them were 66 pastors and church leaders, 15 nonprofit leaders, and 43 people who participated in spiritual care or embodied experiences designed to restore wholeness and trust in God again.
Behind every number is a story. A leader who stayed. A pastor who found language for grief. A person who did not walk away from faith, but learned how to engage it differently. There are also many friends who connect with us, who are still very cautious about re-engaging faith, but have reached out because they appreciate what we are doing.
An Expanding Ecosystem
This year also marked important growth in how Seeds and Water participates in the broader faith ecosystem. We’ve always thought of ourselves as a decentralized organization, more of a network than a destination.
I was invited into two contract roles that extend and deeply align with our mission.
Through the Brethren Leadership Institute, I am building a leadership formation ecosystem for 36 Brethren churches across Indiana through a Lilly Endowment funded initiative. This work focuses on sustainable leadership, spiritual formation, and long term vitality.
Through I Help Pastors Get Jobs, where I now serve as Director of Operations, I support pastors who are discerning vocational transition with clarity, confidence, and dignity, helping them navigate real next steps without shame or panic.
These roles widen relational networks, deepen formation work, and allow Seeds and Water to remain what it has always been, a connective and healing presence across multiple organizations and networks.
Looking Toward 2026
As we prepare for 2026, we see exciting possibilities ahead: deeper care pathways, expanded experiences, new collaborations, and continued support for people navigating change. None of this happens without the quiet faithfulness of those who believe in this work.
If you are already a financial supporter, thank you so much for your generosity! And if you have been following from a distance, would you consider joining us financially for the first time?
Your generosity does not just fund support. It creates margin for healing, space for discernment, and pathways for people who thought faith was no longer an option.
Thank you for being part of this growing story. We are planting faithfully, watering generously, and trusting God with the growth.
Will you help Seeds and Water grow in 2026?
A Visual Language That Reflects the Journey
In 2026, we will be unveiling a refreshed visual identity and a new website for Seeds and Water Collective. This is not a departure from who we have been, but a deepening of it.
These changes come from more than five years of listening, learning, and walking alongside people who have trusted us with their stories. Over time, we have learned that healing is rarely linear, that faith often grows slowly and underground, and that many people need space that is safe, spacious, and honest rather than polished or performative.
Our updated colors, logo, and website are meant to reflect that journey more accurately. We have chosen a visual language that feels grounded and organic, shaped by soil and water rather than platforms and trends. The textures are softer. The palette is calmer and earthier. The design leaves room to breathe. All of it is meant to mirror the slow, patient work of formation and restoration that happens when people are given time, trust, and care.
We believe form should serve formation. This rebrand is one more way we are aligning what you see with what you experience when you step into the work of Seeds and Water. Our hope is that the visual language itself communicates what many of you have already felt here, that this is a place where you do not have to rush, perform, or pretend, and where growth is allowed to take its time.