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 support churches, licensed professionals, and volunteers in serving victims of exploitation and injustice with Christ-centered compassion and biblically grounded care. Through attorney-directed legal support, educational outreach, and coordination with faithful church-based counseling resources, we seek to reflect the mercy of God in practical ways—especially for those affected by 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 vocation of Christian service expressed through works of mercy, carried out faithfully within the callings God has established.

Our Vision

CLICK HERE FOR OUR 2-PAGE VISION EXPLANATION .PDF THAT CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND AT PRAXISPROFESSIONAL.COM/VISION

“San Diego, and every county in the United States, has sex-trafficking victims struggling to rebuild their lives, often navigating fragmented systems and limited personal support. The Church cannot stand by. PraxisProfessional.com helps LCMS congregations take simple, doable steps, like organizing food drives, prayer ministries, and biblical counseling suppor, to serve alongside established nonprofits and professionals already working in this space. By equipping churches to engage faithfully and responsibly, Praxis helps congregations bring Christ-centered hope through practical acts of mercy. Ordinary Christians can make an extraordinary difference, one small act at a time.”

– James Polk, Director of Praxis Professional Foundation Inc.

⚖️ 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 churches, licensed attorneys, and trained volunteers who serve crime victims—especially those affected by trafficking and abuse. We do this through attorney-directed paralegal and legal support services, volunteer coordination and training, and collaboration with church-based pastoral and biblical counseling ministries. Our work reflects the civility, service, and scriptural clarity characteristic of the LCMS tradition.

Legal Aid Support

Praxis Professional Foundation provides attorney-directed paralegal and litigation support services to licensed attorneys, advocates, and licensed private investigators working with survivors. Under professional supervision, we assist with research, clerical and administrative support, document preparation, and secure legal-technology and automation tools through our affiliated legal and technology entities.

Our team includes LCMS-aligned paralegals, legal technologists, and support staff committed to truth-shaped justice and professional integrity. We also collaborate with licensed professionals and practitioners from other backgrounds who share a commitment to lawful victim advocacy, ethical practice, and civil discourse.

Volunteer Mobilization

Praxis Professional Foundation partners with Lutheran students and conservative Christian colleges to facilitate supervised training and service opportunities in areas such as criminal justice support, paralegal assistance, open-source research (OSINT), and human dignity advocacy. All technical and investigative-related activities are conducted under the direction of licensed attorneys, investigators, or qualified supervisors, and within appropriate ethical and legal boundaries.

Congregations are encouraged to organize service projects that demonstrate Christ-like compassion through practical acts of mercy and community support. While Praxis Professional Foundation holds to a Trinitarian Statement of Faith, our DBA structure allows individuals from non-faith backgrounds to contribute meaningfully in support roles, provided they share a commitment to lawful conduct, respect for human dignity, and civil, cooperative service.

Spiritual and Emotional Care

Praxis Professional Foundation supports trauma recovery and aftercare through a tiered referral and coordination network, recognizing that healing often involves multiple forms of care:

  • Christian (Biblical) Counseling – Scripture-based, non-clinical pastoral care offered through churches and trained ministry volunteers, aligned with LCMS doctrine. Participation is always voluntary and never pressured.
  • Clinical Support Referrals – When individuals prefer or require clinical care, Praxis helps connect them to licensed mental health professionals, including psychiatrists and psychologists, who practice within their respective fields.
  • Peer Support & Aftercare – Coordination with trauma-informed community groups and church-based support networks that offer relational encouragement, accountability, and assistance in navigating legal, social, and practical resources.

We respect each individual’s unique path toward healing and restoration. While our work is motivated by Christian faith, religious participation is never required to access attorney-directed legal support or referral-based care coordination.

️ Our Theological Foundation

Praxis Professional Foundation confesses the inerrancy of Holy Scripture, the Lordship and redeeming work of Jesus Christ, and the moral clarity revealed through God’s Law and Gospel. Our service is shaped by the biblical vision of human dignity: that every person is created in the image of God and stands in need of both mercy and truth.

As a faith-based organization whose volunteers are rooted in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), we affirm and operate in alignment with the doctrinal positions and confessional standards of the LCMS, including its teachings on theology, ethics, and Christian vocation:
LCMS Doctrinal Position
LCMS Confessions

Social Issues – Sexuality – The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod:  In particular, we recognize that many issues addressed by the LCMS in its teachings on social and moral questions, including sexuality and human dignity, intersect with the realities faced by individuals affected by trafficking and abuse. For this reason, our volunteers and leadership are expected to be well-formed in the teachings of the Church, so that service is carried out with theological clarity, pastoral sensitivity, and respect for the complex challenges people face both before and after trauma.

️ Seeking LCMS RSO Status

Praxis Professional Foundation is in the early stages of preparing for potential application as a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). We seek to walk alongside the broader community of Lutheran ministries that carry out works of mercy in faithful partnership with the Synod and its congregations.

We recognize that the RSO discernment and application process is rigorous, time-intensive, and not guaranteed. It may take several years before we are prepared to apply, and we understand that formal recognition may ultimately not be the right fit. Regardless, the LCMS is the confessional tradition with which we intentionally seek to align our theology, philosophy of service, public messaging, and ministry practices.

Our aim is to conduct our work in a manner that reflects Lutheran clarity, humility, and accountability, and that remains respectful of the Synod’s doctrine, structure, and mission.

To learn more about RSOs, visit:

Partner With Us

Praxis Professional Foundation welcomes collaboration with individuals and organizations who share a commitment to lawful service, human dignity, and ethical compassion, including:

  • LCMS pastors and congregations seeking to organize church-led mercy and volunteer efforts
  • Lutheran students and educators interested in supervised training and service opportunities
  • Licensed legal professionals seeking attorney-directed paralegal and litigation support partnerships
  • Foundations and individual supporters committed to upholding truth, mercy, and responsible service
  • Biblical counselors and pastoral caregivers serving within church-based, non-clinical counseling ministries

If your church, school, firm, or organization is interested in exploring collaboration, we invite you to contact us to learn how we may serve together with clarity, accountability, and respect for each partner’s distinct role.

How we support our Ministry

Click here to read how our interconnected business initiatives uphold our conservative Christian mission and help sustain Praxis Professional Foundation.

️ 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.