Our mission is to strengthen and support church leaders at every level with biblical and practical training.

The Foundry team initially connected while working at Kuyper College. Because of our connections to local churches, we began to dream of more Spirit-driven, innovative ways to equip churches and church leaders.

Through a season of fasting and prayer, we heard God clearly calling us to start something new that would make biblical and practical ministry training more accessible to church leaders at every level. We love Jesus and the church, and we seek to gather communities of learning within and among churches so that we can all be forged further into the image of Christ.

Why “the Foundry”? A foundry is a metals workshop. It’s hands-on, dirty, and even a bit dangerous. You don’t passively learn in a foundry—you get into the heat. When naming our ministry, we kept returning to the image of God’s refining fire. When you learn with The Foundry, our hope and prayer is that you experience that fire, and that God uses The Foundry to mold you into the church leader he created you to be.

Prayer

We believe God eternally exists as one being in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and invites us to be in relationship with him.¹Matt. 28:19-20 While God sovereignly created and sustains all that exists, we believe that he is dynamically involved in all we do and desires to hear from us and for us to hear from him.

From its very beginning, The Foundry remains committed to faithful obedience through listening to the Spirit, fasting, and praying. We center our life, ministry, and time around the good news of Jesus, who modeled for us and taught us how to pray.

Truth

We believe that the Triune God has revealed himself in creation, the Bible, and most fully in Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus is the eternal Son, fully God, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, to take on our full humanity, live a righteous life, and give his life as a substitutionary sacrifice for sinners. He physically rose from the dead and ascended to the Father where he reigns and rules over all things. Jesus is the ultimate example and embodiment of grace and truth.

We believe the Bible is God’s inspired word and therefore trustworthy and authoritative for what we believe and how we live. We believe that the Bible teaches that all people are created in the image of God, and therefore men and women of all races and classes are equal and have essential dignity. We believe that from the beginning, God designed celibate singleness and faithful marriage of a man and a woman as the patterns for humans.

The Foundry seeks to live and serve from these places of truth, rooted in Scripture, authentic in who God has called us to be, honest with others and ourselves in our interactions and limitations. We also find it important to be charitable toward others who disagree with our understandings of these truths.

Generosity

We believe that God is lavishly gracious and generous, and that we are called to reflect his generosity toward others. When our first human parents sinned and brought upon all humanity the consequences of sin, guilt, and death, God in his mercy promised to redeem his people. He carried out his plan to save justly condemned sinners who are unable to save themselves or contribute in any positive way to their salvation. We believe that it is only by grace through faith in Christ Jesus that a person is saved.

We believe that God also demonstrates his generosity by pouring out gifts upon his people to be used for the strengthening of his church. These gifts include financial resources, but also skills and abilities intended to serve others and meet the needs of God’s people. Because God provides abundantly for his people, The Foundry seeks to be grateful receivers of his gifts, and to graciously use our gifts to serve the body of Christ.