Last week, our directors team took our work on the road. We piled into the car and headed to Ruidoso, NM for the Human Trafficking Conference put on by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety – and the drive itself became one of the most meaningful parts of the trip. Those hours in the car turned into a moving think tank for our team. We spent the entire drive creating, innovating, realizing, planning, and dreaming about what’s possible. It was a time of building, collaborating, co-laboring with the Lord and each other.
On the Road Together
We attended the Human Trafficking Conference as vendors, hoping to link arms with the organizations already doing this work and to bring Nevaeh’s voice into the statewide landscape.
What We Encountered
The conference was powerful and heavy, filled with law enforcement professionals from every branch and department. We learned so much about the women and children impacted by the crime of human trafficking. For years, law enforcement has been asking the same urgent question: How do we get them out?
The Question That Won’t Let Go
But once they’re out… where do they go? What happens next?
Officer after officer told us the same heartbreaking truth: there is nowhere for women to go once they’re pulled out of trafficking. There are too few resources, especially for pregnant women. One officer turned to us and said — with a sadness that told the whole story — “What do we tell ’em, you know?”
That sentence has stayed with all of us. And in that moment, it was unmistakably clear: Nevaeh is the answer to that question.
Getting to the Heart
So again we went to work. We believe that all true building unfolds from the inside out, and like everything we do with Nevaeh and our team, we needed to get right to the heart. What is the truth at the core of Nevaeh — the reason we cannot look away or slow down? What is the generational assignment God has entrusted to us? Why must this home take its place in the Kingdom as a refuge Heaven is insisting on?
Our Why
And together we authored our why:
Nevaeh exists because healing and freedom change generations.
We believe every woman carries a story that God intends to restore — and when a mother heals, her baby’s life shifts, her lineage shifts, and the women before and after her are transformed.
We exist because too many women walk through pregnancy, trauma, and postpartum alone — afraid, unsupported, disconnected, and unseen. We exist because babies need their mothers, mothers need their babies, and people need safe places to release what they’ve carried for too long.
We exist because connection heals.
Because honor restores.
Because God sees every woman and every child — and He intervenes through people who say yes.
The Ones Who Said Yes
All of us building this home are the ones who have said yes. Every partner, every volunteer, every member of this team. What an honor it is to co-labor with the Lord and each other.
Carried Forward
This trip was unforgettable. One of those experiences we know we’ll look back on with so much sweetness and gratitude for this season and for each other.
And just like the road that carried us there, we’re letting this experience carry us forward — together, expectant, and dreaming about what’s possible.
Over these next few months, you’ll hear from different members of our director team as we rotate authorship of our blog and newsletter. You’re part of Nevaeh’s becoming, and we want you to hear the heart of this work through the voices of the women shaping it from the inside out.
More soon,
Amanda Gibbon
Co-Founder
Director of Operations
Stay Connected
You’re part of this story.
What God is building through Nevaeh Living isn’t happening from a distance- it’s unfolding through people who choose to come close, to listen, to care, and to say yes in their own way.
If this moved you, stirred something in you, or stayed with you… we’d love for you to stay connected with us. To follow along. To share this with someone who needs to see it.
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A Gentle Invitation
If you feel led to support what we’re building –
through prayer, partnership, or giving –
we would be honored to have you be part of it.
Every step forward is made possible by a community of people
who believe in creating spaces where healing can begin.
We’re so grateful you’re here.
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