Praxis Professional Foundation: A Ministry of Justice, Mercy, and Hope

Serving the vulnerable with truth and compassion, in the name of Christ.

Our Mission

Praxis Professional Foundation exists to serve victims of exploitation and injustice with Christ-centered compassion and biblically grounded support. Through legal guidance, educational outreach, and connection to faithful counseling resources, we seek to reflect the mercy of God in practical ways—especially for those who have suffered from sex trafficking, abuse, and social marginalization.

As members of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), we are committed to upholding the authority of Scripture, the centrality of the Gospel, and the beauty of Christian service through our works of mercy.

⚖️ What We Do

Our work is grounded in the dual calling of the Christian life:
To love God with all our heart, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
(Matthew 22:37–39)

Praxis Professional Foundation fulfills this calling by supporting crime victims—especially survivors of trafficking and abuse—through legal assistance, trained volunteer engagement, and holistic care. Our work reflects the civility, service, and scriptural clarity characteristic of the LCMS tradition.

Legal Aid Support

We assist attorneys, advocates, and licensed private investigators working with survivors, offering research, clerical help, document preparation, and secure automation tools through our affiliated legal and technology entities. Our team includes LCMS-aligned paralegals, legal technologists, and support staff devoted to truth-shaped justice. We also collaborate with professionals of other backgrounds who share our commitment to victim support and civil discourse.

Volunteer Mobilization

We partner with Lutheran students and conservative Christian colleges to provide training opportunities in criminal justice, paralegal work, OSINT (open-source intelligence), and human dignity advocacy. Congregations are encouraged to organize service projects that demonstrate Christ-like compassion. While our foundation holds to a Trinitarian Statement of Faith, our DBA allows non-faith-based volunteers to contribute meaningfully to this work, as long as they share our commitment to respectful cooperation.

Spiritual and Emotional Care

We offer a tiered referral network to support trauma recovery and aftercare:

  • Christian (Biblical) Counseling – Scripture-based, non-clinical care aligned with LCMS doctrine. Participation is always optional and never pressured.
  • Clinical Support – Access to licensed professionals in psychiatry and psychology for those preferring or requiring clinical care.
  • Peer Support & Aftercare – Trauma-informed community support to help individuals navigate recovery and connect with trusted legal and social resources.

We respect every individual’s unique healing path. While our faith inspires us, we never require religious participation to receive legal aid or care services.

️ Our Theological Foundation

We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, the confession of Christ as Lord and Redeemer, and the moral clarity provided in the Law and Gospel. All of our service efforts are shaped by the biblical vision of human dignity: that each person is created in the image of God and is in need of both mercy and truth.

We affirm and operate in alignment with the doctrinal statements and confessions of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod:
LCMS Doctrinal Position
LCMS Confessions

Social Issues – Sexuality – The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod: This page is from the LCMS website and speaks to a set of social issues pertaining to sexuality and is relevant to our work because of a myriad of overlapping issues that trafficking victims deal with pre-trauma and post-trauma.  We, as volunteers, need to be well-versed in the issues the people we intend to help deal with on a daily basis, and need to know what our Church teaches.

️ Seeking LCMS RSO Status

Praxis Professional Foundation is currently in the process of preparing for application as a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) of the LCMS. We seek to join the community of Lutheran ministries who carry out works of mercy in faithful partnership with the Synod and its congregations.  It will probably take a few years for us to be able to apply for the RSO designation and we might not end up being able to fit, but the LCMS is the denomination with which we seek to keep our philosophy and the messaging and activities we broadcast and orchistrate.

To learn more about RSOs, visit:
LCMS RSO Overview
LCMS RSO FAQs

Partner With Us

We welcome connections with:

  • LCMS pastors and congregations
  • Lutheran students and educators
  • Legal professionals seeking ethically rooted support partnerships
  • Foundations and individuals committed to upholding truth and compassion
  • Christian Counselors

If your church, school, or firm is interested in collaborating with us, we invite you to contact us for more information on how we can serve together.

️ Final Word

In an age of moral confusion and deep human suffering, we believe Christ’s people are called to bring clarity, comfort, and courage to those in need. We are honored to walk alongside our LCMS brothers and sisters in this mission.

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
— Micah 6:8

Skillful Screening – MinistrySafe is a service we recommend highly.  They can do all the background checks and screening on your volunteers that you really should make sure to have on file when you have people volunteering with kids.

Biblical Counseling (ACBC Certification) is something that can be done for kids who are at risk and also kids who have been victims of crimes like sex-trafficking.  Praxis Professional Foundation Incorporated is a non-profit which has been setup to do advocacy for the victims of sex-trafficking and to make sure they are able to go through Conservative Biblical Counseling.

Biblical Counseling Center is a Christian ministry that provides Bible-anchored counseling to individuals (in person and online), while equipping churches through training, resources, and partnerships to care for hurting people. Their programs include lay counseling courses and church “LAUNCH” partnerships, and they’re recognized to support ACBC certification pathways.

AllInService.org is our site describing how to build a Church Community Service Project to Help Kids on Juvenile Probation to do their Community Service for Court and it is a way to help at risk youth and to pull them into Church!

This is the link to a copy of the official CA State filed Articles of Incorporation in their current first form.  I am going to be building them out and adding directors and bylaws, getting an EIN and a DUNS Number etc.  I am forming up an LP with this non-profit as the one general partner and then Apex Law Service (paralegal), Centinel Trust (software), Apex Centinel, Praxis Holdings will be the 4 small business trust limited partners with the one LLC limited partner being Praxis Investigations LLC which was formed for the corporate CA PI License from the BSIS we are working on for research related to our paralegal work we are doing for our pro bono attorney clients.  It’s an endeavor, but over the past number of years since finishing paralegal training at the University of San Diego, I have built up the little business trusts so the non-profit and the LLC in an LP with the trusts is just a formalization of what way I have been taking my professional work over this whole time.