Staff and Ministries
Casa Tanya
Casa Tanya is a safe and loving home where women grow into generation changers through the experience of transformative living. Casa Tanya has a holistic approach that includes a physically safe house, a team mentoring approach to discipleship, life skills workshops, advocacy, and local community connections.
Stephanie Hobold
One of Steph's favorite things is to watch people own their God-given voice and use it to invite justice and reconciliation. It is her joy to come alongside people as they embrace the Gospel and it's transforming power in their lives, families, and communities. She was privileged to witness youth become generation changers in West Winooski, Vermont serving as the Youth Impact Director for 8 years. Stephanie moved to the west side of Chicago in 2016 where she joined a residential approach to mentoring and transformative living for young women and their children. Since 2022, Stephanie has become focused on integrated life mentoring with a focus on parent coaching. She continues to partner with local ministries and natural networks who desire to be generation changers not only in life, but through their parenting. If you are looking for Steph follow the music to the kitchen where she is probably cooking, painting, or packing snacks for an adventure in the city.
Breaking Ground’s mission is to seek and develop those who desire to become instruments of lasting change in their community. Breaking Ground works to fulfill this mission by creating educational and employment opportunities. Since 1998, Breaking Ground has seen over 2,400 students come through its doors and has created a wide variety of employment opportunities to develop its graduates.
Cotorey Seals
Cotorey Seals is the D-House director and coordinator at the Navigators’ Breaking Ground ministry. He is an outgoing and joyful follower of Jesus. Wherever Cotorey goes, he wants to take as many people as possible along with him. That’s how he approaches his work for God’s Kingdom, as well as the things he loves to do in his leisure time: poetry, working-out, and salsa dancing.
Discipleship House
Restored men bringing holistic change to their communities
Our heart here at the Detox house is from Isaiah 58:6-7 “… to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free … to share food, provide shelter and clothe them.” This is a rescue mission. Jesus rescued us from our sin and calls us to be ministers of reconciliation to others. The men we seek to serve face challenges most of us can’t even imagine. D-House is a ministry of reaching across the gap between Life in Christ and death in the world, to help men choose Life, to come to know and experience Him as Savior, and to bear Christ’s image rather than to chase after the world’s images.
Stories from Chicago
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“I just wanted to do better, I didn’t want to hurt anybody anymore. I didn’t want to hurt myself anymore.”