“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners…” — Isaiah 61:1 (NIV)
The vision of Iris Gran Familia is to be the Family of God together. We long to worship intimately as family and show love to others in a practical way, which invites them to be part of the Family. We go past the edge of our limits and invite people out of the darkness into His perfect light.
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We met Jose Alfredo in the prison over 5 years ago. He has been in prison for 20 years and has a few more years left on his sentence. That's the longest sentence there is in Palmasola Prison. When we met him he was lost in drugs, just a shadow of the man he had once been. The Lord told us to just love hi...
What began as a vision a little over 7 years ago as we laid in the dirt in Mozambique is coming to completion.....the Lord said to go and love the lost in the prison and the darkest places and be family. We are seeing that come to pass. After 4 years in Bolivia during the height of the pandemic, the L...
We are in our 7th year as an Iris ministry here in Santa Cruz Bolivia. We work among the poor, the forgotten and the broken, mostly in prison ministry but also in our neighborhood and beyond...and the Lord brings them into His family. The Lord birthed a ministry of Family out of our broken and desper...