Morgan Lanier

Hello, I am Morgan Lanier. Thanks for stopping by to read my bio. I lived most my life in my home state of Georgia never really intending on moving elsewhere. However, due to lots of life changes that hit me hard in my mid 20’s, God met me saying “never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5) I received a feeling like amidst all of life changes, he was the one relationship that wouldn’t change. That was the season where he began helping me to release a tight grip I had on trying to control my life’s plans. I must say that learning to believe, hope and trust his will while relinquishing all my hopes and dreams into his hands; while trusting him with my story (more so of him inviting me into HIS STORY) has been a PROCESS/JOURNEY over the years. Which has also taken me routes I could have never planned or dreamed on my own (Ephesians 3:20). AKA…the Goodness of God!

In 2007 I moved from the area I grew up in down to South Georgia where I lived for about 9 years. Then in 2016 I moved from GA to the beautiful bluegrass state of Kentucky to attend Asbury Seminary. This is where I first learned about Good Works (G.W.). I can remember in my early days of seminary Keith Wasserman coming to visit our campus sharing about G.W. in one of my classes. While I was a student at ATS, Keith visited several times, with me getting to talk with him on occasions. I never forgot about him sharing about G.W and how it resonated with me, and the ways God was working within me concerning his heart for people on the margins. In the summer of 2021, I was blessed to join the G.W. community by doing the summer internship as well as completing some of my field work for my mentor ministry for my degree. After that summer in September of 2021, I went back for a visit to G.W. for a car dedication for one of the Transformation Station volunteers that I had served with in the summer. While back in Athens that weekend, Keith and I began talking about what it could look like for me to maybe consider working with Good Works after seminary. In May of 2022, I graduated from Asbury Seminary and moved to Athens, Ohio where I started a full-time staff position with Good Works in June of 2022.

Why do I want to work with Good Works? I have a deep passion for learning ways that the church can best serve people who are considered marginalized or at risk, specifically children /youth/ those with special needs, people who experience homelessness and those recovering from addictions.

For most of the year I am a caregiver at the Good Works Timothy House—a temporary home for people without a home. Here they have a place to lie their head to sleep, have a warm meal, shower and the opportunity enter into a community who desires to offer them a clean, safe and stable environment. As a caregiver I walk beside them as they are working through their hard circumstances, often getting to listen to them, pray with them if they want and helping them get connected to resources they need so they can continue to move forward.

For the past few summers I have also worked with Good Works Summer Service from June to August where I served as Kids Discovery Club Director. I love working with all people especially children and families.

It’s an honor and blessing to work beside the people here in the Good Works community as we serve together and are in fellowship with people coming from all walks of life so that the Kingdom of God can be experienced.

Grace, Peace and Love,

Morgan

Isaiah 1:17 “Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sister of mine, you did for me” (Matthew 25:40.)
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” By Henri Nouwen