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  • NINE hosts first leadership training event.

    News March 4, 2019

    Northeast Indiana Neighborhood Engagement hosted a leadership training program for local churches to help them learn to engage the neighborhood in which they serve. The training took place at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on January 25-26 with nine participants.

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  • NINE Works to Build Partnerships with Churches and Neighborhoods

    News February 28, 2019

    NINE (Northeast Indiana Neighborhood Engagement) is a new organization whose goal is to impact neighborhoods with community development, grassroots leadership, and the engagement of churches through Christ’s love. Their mission is to bring transformational life change to individuals living in underserved neighborhoods in northeast...

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  • Welcome Pastor Lewis A. King, mission director

    News October 30, 2018

    In December 2017 NINE’s Board of Director’s officially on boarded its new Mission Director, Pastor Lewis A. King who is a parishioner at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Prior to Pastor King enrolling at the seminary, he worked as a full-time barber and remains the...

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What We Do

Our mission is to impact neighborhoods with community development, grassroots leadership, and the engagement of churches through Christ’s love.

We believe that all of Fort Wayne, and eventually all of northeast Indiana, can find peace and prosperity  through God’s love in Jesus Christ.

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Who We Are

    • Lewis King

      Mission Director

      "NINE was organized to impact neighborhoods with community development, grassroots leadership, and the engagement of churches through Christ’s love."

    • Tom Ahlersmeyer

      Pastor, Holy Cross Lutheran Church

      Rev. Dr. Thomas Ahlersmeyer is Senior Pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

    • Barb Netterville

      Mission Director, Bethlehem Lutheran Church

      "NINE is in a great position to be the hands and feet of Christ to the southeast area of Ft Wayne."

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What Fort Wayne Leaders Say About Us

  • This is our city. This is the place we call home. This is the community where we have chosen to make a difference.

    Rev. Lewis King, Ministry Director

  • I believe in NINE’s mission and believe that by equipping people with the right tools we can do great things in the urban mission field.

    Myra Shelby Scott, Lutheran Foundation

  • NINE is in a great position to be the hands and feet of Christ to southeast Ft Wayne.

    Barbara Netterville, Bethlehem Lutheran Church

  • Through NINE we can strengthen our churches in their mission of proclaiming Christ’s love, bringing comfort to His troubled people and healing to our neighborhoods.

    Mark Franke, Ascension Lutheran Church

  • The urban community needs to know they are not alone. The gifts that God has provided should be used to assist others in need, never wasted. You can change a life and eventually a community.

    Myra Scott, Bethlehem Lutheran Church

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