Cory, Kyle, and Sully playing football on beautiful Sunday afternoon. Southwind Fields promotes community,
encouraging locals to form healthy, God-centered relationships, encouraging one another and doing life together.
ties that includes missionary work
with other nonprofit organizations
(partnerships Bellieu and the staff
have maintained over the years). The
program consists of daily Life groups
where Locals build relationships, learn
about Jesus, and help grow and
maintain independent living, social,
and communication skills. They will
attend therapy-based classes, enjoy
organic and locally sourced meals, and
pursue employment opportunities with
the Southwind Work team. Simply put,
they locate meaning and purpose and
live it out every day.
The long-term plan for SWF is the
Tiny House Community, an all-inclusive,
sustainable gated community in
the Texas hill country set to open in
the next few years. Locals will have
their choice of a tiny home or a room
at their inspiration village, and they
can take part in community outreach
events and service opportunities, skill
building life-groups, and therapy-based
classes. Tiny House will have a clinic,
farmers’ market, garden, outdoor
movie theater, chapel (all run by the
work teams), and on-site medical
supervision in an eco-friendly environment.
They are also looking for
mentors, usually retirees or those with
hearing and/or vision loss, who come
along side SWF locals to create a
symbiotic
environment,
sharing their own
expertise and life
experiences to
encourage and
enrich one another's
lives. SWF is
actively seeking
funding and
in-kind donations
for this vision.
SWF wants to
“ Where we start is
helping them
understand that
they’re like
everybody else,
that their life has
purpose and
meaning.”
instill the love of God into Locals by
showing them that their lives matter to
Him. “We believe that your identity is
found in Christ,” says Bellieu. “The
people that we serve know about God
or have some relationship on some
level, but for the most part the Gospel
has never really moved them in a way
they understand, and kind of where
we start is
helping them
understand that
they’re like
everybody else,
that their life
has purpose and
meaning.”
A line on the
SWF website
reads “Everyone
deserves to live a
life they love”. People invisible to the
world are visible to God and He has a
plan for them because of the help of
willing servants. The people at Southwind
Fields want to show adults with
disabilities what it’s like to be empowered
through meaningful experiences.
Through community, including Tiny
House, Locals will have a safe space
where they can grow spiritually and
emotionally and have a place to call
their own. After all, “with God all
things are possible”.
Southwind Fields
6581Citizens Parkway #224
Open Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5p.m.
For more information, 210-526-1567
www.southwindfields.com
or find them on Facebook and Twitter
@ southwindfields
Be A Light.
Pray. For continued growth and divine
leadership for our team and to meet the
needs of those we’re serving. Invite. We
want to stand in front of congregations and
organizations to spread the word and invite
them to be involved. Talent. SWF is looking
for grant writers. Volunteer. SWF is looking
for people that would consider becoming
Local mentors. Contact the ministry to get
involved. Give. Donations can be given
through the SWF website. Help them reach
their vision.
S TOR Y MADE POS S I B L E B Y:
Anonymous Partners
Thank you Lord, for these Anonymous
Partners who generously gave to Southwind
Fields so that we could feature this
article in our January issue. With this generous
gift we are able to help raise awareness
for Southwind Fields and all they do to help
the children in our community.
People invisible
to the world are
visible to God
and He has a plan
for them because
of the help of
willing servants.
Some of the Southwind Fields staff at their monthly San Antonio Adults with Asperger’s meet-up group, the first Sunday of
each month at the San Antonio Clubhouse.
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