Founder Mika Harris had her own journey of crossroads to choose healing for a new life driven by purpose, all while being a fierce defender of family on the frontline to help shift a family member toward a more productive and hope filled future; not just for the sake of one but for many. Because with gratitude she saw the foundations that were laid in every generation before her within her own family, making it possible for her to make it, and then making it possible for her to help someone else make it. 

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She began listening to the stories of men and women who had found themselves in places of desolation do to emotional trauma and/or addictive behaviors, and found a commonality with those in her sphere of influence, which involved hopeless perceptions and feelings of being unseen, abandoned, as one lacking value or misplaced by society.

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So as with everything she took it to prayer and responded in simplicity, starting by encouraging women in their homes or over a meal, teaching women through a transition home on life skills (during the pandemic when no one else would should up), and now at a occasional chapel in a residential recovery program. Further, she would use personal funds to stuff gift boxes for local teen girls with trinkets and notes to inspire them they are seen, and Beyond Beautiful young ladies. All with a focus to help ladies to move forward in bravery with new hope and link her to any possible resources to help her arrive into a more promising environment. And whenever possible she will look a woman in her eyes and tell her to keep going, knowing there is so much in her to break free, for God has equipped her uniquely to inspire a community (whether it be her home or the nations). 

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Her focus had been women and their responses confirming, often stated as, "I /we needed that, thank you.". Though, while leading the charge in defense for a family member who’s reckless behaviors were rooted in trauma, she saw how men also get steered away from who they are meant to be. But often no one cares to steer them back, thereby she noticed a larger need. Noticing also, the children who need dad to be okay, who need dad to heal and make it too, for them and every generation after them. 

 

She remembered John 4, the Biblical story of a Samaritan woman and Jesus at a well, where the two had such a profound conversation it lead to her own emotional healing and altered her future, plus that of a community. Though, the woman described the well they were at as deep, one rich in history, on land Jacob gave to his son Joseph, a well he drank from himself, and his sons and their livestock. A well that began with stones, where generations prior Jacob first heard from God there was something unique about his life (Genesis 28). Then later, Jacob had to decide to change and move forward in a new way (Genesis 35). And at some point, later in his story Jacob dug a well, laid down stones, and that well existed well beyond his years. 

 

His well became a place of nourishment, with generational impact, useful as a meeting place and an eventual site of some one else’s fresh start; that Samaritan woman. It speaks volumes about the men who are out there, the Jacob’s, which by a commitment to their own fresh start are able to turn stones of faith into a well of hope nurturing himself, his family, community and following generations.

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Stone2Well Ministries desires to help men see the impact of their fresh start on their family and the ground work they can laydown through faith and with good citizenship; and to help women understand the value of trusting a promise over pain, in order to experience how it can positively impact themselves and those in their reach.

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We believe - One stone of hope becomes a well for a family and a community.