​leadership & History

FROM Laura Fuhrman
​EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/FOUNDER

When I started The Well in 2013, my family was going through it's own crisis, and it felt like the worst time to start an organization. My husband had lost his job, we had to leave our home, I was pregnant with our third baby, and depression and anxiety took up residence in our family. But it caused me to step out and trust God as I was desperate to see Him move and bring wholeness to our family, and multiply that story in others as well.​

God brought some other women with a shared passion, and The Well started to take shape. We were given free space to use so we could start mentoring women in Le Sueur, MN. We knocked on doors, connected with churches, trained volunteers, and started showing love to women and their kiddos. God was moving!! In those years, we helped women find treatment, provided diapers and formula, helped some move out of abusive situations, offered support and friendship through pregnancy and birth, helped search for jobs and housing, found or provided clothes for interviews, and, most importantly, showed them love and introduced them to the One that brings hope that the world can never give. 

In this next season of The Well, we feel called to move further toward an Acts 2 model. Our heart is to establish Houses of Prayer all throughout the city (and beyond!) that will seek the heart of God, intercede for Him to encounter those around us, and stir up our hearts toward inner revival that will bring health and the love of Jesus to our homes, neighborhoods, cities, states, and nation. We want to build a community that will be the hand and feet of love, meeting needs, sharing meals, caring for the lonely or those in need, and so much more. We want our gaze fixed on Him, and our posture ready to do all He asks of us in order to see and care for all those around us.

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