#BeOneOfThemOnes

Middletons On A Mission
Feb 18
7 min read

Updated: Feb 20

A Call Back To Family, Honor, and Faithfully Making A Difference Together

The Goodness Report - Winter 2026

Published Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Image Credit: Communion America 2025 - Middletons On A Mission

We’ve reached a new turning point in our need to be faithful as a society together.

11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning is still one of the most segregated hours of our existence as Americans. In the 1960’s, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often cited this tragic flaw regarding the state of the American Church. More than half a century later, most Americans who attend church regularly still predominantly worship alongside others of the same racial background.

Yet the Bible says that upon Jesus’ return, every nation, tribe, and tongue will worship HIM in spirit and in truth. It’s time to move beyond our class, culture, and denominational borders to worship our Lord and Savior as one Body—made of many parts, anchored in HIS Word and empowered by HIS love together.

Unity is a prerequisite for the revival our country so desperately needs. To heal our land, we must stand firm in our calling to form a more perfect union. Establishing a faithful frontline will help us turn our pursuit of life, liberty, and human flourishing into greatness all Americans can honor together.

We Said Yes!

At the top of 2025, our family sold our major belongings, stored what carried sentimental value, and launched out to answer God’s call to missions.

Over the course of twelve months, we crisscrossed this nation six times—from sea to shining sea. We lived amongst a community of missionaries on Hawaiʻi’s Big Island for three months. We traveled along the West Coast, ministering in our home state of California, and journeyed through Yellowstone National Park after outreach in Western Canada. Finally, we returned to the East Coast in the fall—reaping seeds of fellowship first sown in worship and prayer over a decade ago.

We gathered in living rooms, churches, parks, city streets, and sacred spaces—fasting, praying, worshiping, studying scripture, taking communion, and fellowshipping to spread The Good News and be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Hundreds of prayer gatherings, several performance ministry programs, and many Sunday services later—across lines of class, race, gender, age, and denomination—we witnessed something that marked us permanently:

We are far more beautiful worshipping together than we have been willing to believe.

Image Credit: Baptism O.C., California | Hour Of Prayer Atlanta, Georgia | Communion America Washington D.C.

Bearing Witness

Across this land, we encountered believers who were hungry for unity that was both theologically sound and historically honest.

We prayed with elders in small evangelical Bible studies in Southern California. We worshiped with revolutionary lovers of Jesus in Harlem, New York. We stood among more than 40,000 multicultural intercessors in Atlanta, Georgia, and watched hundreds of children encounter Christ while ziplining through the skies of Alberta, Canada.

We shared communion with Native believers in the volcanic hills of Hawaiʻi. We participated in what is believed to be the longest communion table in American history—believers from all 50 states, denominations, ethnicities, classes, and generations reaching across the aisle to declare that bloodline iniquities in America would be overturned by the blood of the Lamb.

From baptisms on the National Mall, to the site of the last Great Awakening in Orange County, California, to worship in the Pacific where giant sea turtles swam beside us—we laid hands, prayed, prophesied, served, and welcomed people of all nations, tribes, and tongues into a shared community of faith.

Scripture came alive among us:

“Don’t think you are better than you really are… Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.”— Romans 12:3–5

Remember: The Truth Establishes Freedom

In October 2025, our family visited the President’s House Site in Philadelphia—directly across from the Constitution Center. Once the second executive mansion of President George Washington, the ruins also bear witness to a sobering truth: this home was sustained, in part, by the illegal trafficking and enslavement of human beings

We did not plan to visit this exhibit. We stumbled upon it while walking through the park after viewing the Liberty Bell through glass during a government shutdown. The museum itself was closed—but this history was still speaking.

There, we learned of Washington’s practice of rotating enslaved people between Virginia and Philadelphia every five months to exploit a legal loophole, thereby avoiding Pennsylvania’s laws requiring emancipation. We learned the names and stories of those who resisted, including his chef Hercules and a woman whose path to freedom was documented on the walls.

But the exhibit did not stop there.

It also told the story of the Church.

In 1793, as yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia, the Free African Society—organized by Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church—mobilized believers to nurse the sick, serve the dying, and restore the city. This movement was supported by a multiracial coalition, including prominent white abolitionists and Christian leaders who donated resources and labor to ensure African churches could flourish.

One of those allies was Benjamin Rush—a revolutionary, signer of the Declaration of Independence, former Surgeon General, and 1799 Treasurer of the United States Mint—who served as both host and donor for this gathering.

The Church, when faithful, has always known how to show up. This history reveals the power of The Body of Christ when we are faithful together.

Though the exhibit was ordered removed, a judge has since overruled that decision and it has been re-installed while the proper appeals proceed — but what we received there cannot be removed from our hearts or our calling.

We were reminded that America’s story includes both sinful suffering and liberating repentance— and that the Church has often served as the link belt—the providential conduit of Christ’s Lordship through which Heaven meets Earth, and transformation takes hold.

It's Healing Time

As you read this, America is in crisis. In January 2026, we commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while simultaneously witnessing the festering boil of deep wounds in the soul of our nation. These unhealed pain bodies fracture our national character and threaten the sustainability of our shared commitment to life, liberty, and human flourishing.

The question before the American Church is not whether the need for healing and revival is real.

The question is whether we will respond—together.

Jesus was direct:

“For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink, and I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home… Truly, I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” 

— Matthew 25:35–40

Who are we, if we cannot lock arms in a moment like this?

Thus Saith The Lord

As a family, we have been studying the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In prayer, the Lord impressed this truth upon our hearts:

It wasn’t the marching—it was the prayer, fasting, and worship established by faith before the civil disobedience. To effectively resist worldliness in the natural, we must first resist the enemy in the heavens. We serve a radical, revolutionary God. It’s time to truly know HIM.

This work has never been about getting a reaction, compliance, or even agreement. It has always been about “thus saith The Lord.” God declared creation to be very good. It is time for all human beings to experience God’s desire for family, community, and love as the highest expression of HIS glory.

This is the real missionary work before us. It’s an unfortunate truth that in this bloodied, battered, and bruised world we’ve created, many people struggle to believe that God is truly good. It’s time for American believers as a whole to embody this truth and actually be The Church; called to go, commissioned to disciple, and sent out as Christ’s ambassadors to serve.

One of the most precious parts of being a missionary family is the privilege of witnessing the people we love grow spiritually and use their gifts and talents to serve the Kingdom of God.

This docu-short honors our first year cultivating the mission to #BeOneOfThemOnes — A Call Back to Family, Honor, and Faithfully Making a Difference in America Together. Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEY-CfCnNw

A Quantum Leap Forward

Before we cross seas on mission abroad, we believe we must take care of home.

In 2025, we saw clearly that North America is not defined solely by the worst headlines of our time. With boots on the ground for over a year, we witnessed something far richer: faithful believers laboring quietly, courageously, and collectively for renewal.

Now is the time to steward what God revealed across the aisles of faith last year. It’s time to step out of our individual pressing toward the mark and to gather the fruits of restoration for the collective redemption of our nation’s soul.

It’s important to mirror the truth of God’s goodness back to our communities as a nonviolent quantum leap forward for honor, family, and God’s love to finally reign supreme in America.

So we’ve started a movement—and we’re inviting you to join us.

The Goodness Report: One Hundred 100s

In 2026, we are launching a new season of mission work across the United States and beyond, partnering with churches, ministries, and marketplace leaders to:

remove cost barriers to family discipleship training
foster unity within the Body of Christ
raise up the next generation of Kingdom citizens

Last year, we raised $108,000— $70,000 of which came directly from our family’s personal savings. We are deeply grateful for the men, women, and families who partnered with us in raising $38,000 that funded our summer mission in Canada and our bi-coastal missions in the fall.

This year, our goal is $120,000.

We are inviting families to join the One Hundred 100s movement and prayerfully sow $100 per month into our 2026 missions fund. #BeOneOfThemOnes—standing with us as partners in a work we believe will shape the future of the American Church.

Your partnership will enable us to serve alongside local churches and ministries in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, the DMV, Atlanta, and Southern California (Los Angeles/Orange County)—supporting the American Church through gatherings, hospitality, prayer, innovative creative media discipleship experiences, technical assistance, and Bible literacy initiatives.

Take Action #BeOneOfThemOnes

We believe love still covers a multitude of sin. We believe unity is not naïve—it is necessary. We also believe the Bride of Christ is being invited to lift her voice again.

Thank you for considering partnership with Middletons On A Mission. Whether through prayer, financial support, collaboration, or conversation, your willingness to step forward matters.

The vision is clear. The time is now.

Together, may we be one Body, many parts—a family of faith united by our pursuit to honor the expression of God's goodness in the Earth with surrendered hearts. May we seek to be one with Christ through collective repentance, transformation, and holiness as a nation. May our pressing toward this mark manifest the glory of God for a thousand generations. May we finally be The Church.

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