Caleb and Stasia Brake

Our family

Stasia has always had a heart for international ministry. She spent four years teaching in Indonesia, and she loves teaching kids and loving on them. She fully supports my call to be a full-time pastor and church planter.

Our son Levi is a little under two years old. He is a ball of energy and brings us so much joy. We are excited to bring our daughter home for the first time in February. Stay tuned for her name!

Stasia and I have talked it through, and we are both on board with starting the residency in August 2027 if I am accepted into it.

Our home church is The Village Church. We have seen so much fruit in our home group there, partly because of the preaching, but mostly because that preaching gets applied in day-to-day discipleship. That is what we want Gracebound to be.

I spent three years in China as a missionary, and being a foreigner there was not easy. My Chinese brothers and sisters knew the bank system, where to get food, and where to get medicine when I got really sick. They had cars and knew the public transit. I didn’t. I leaned on them again and again.

That is where I learned what sacrificial love is. I served a small house church in the countryside. Most of its members lived off farming or day labor, and I had a scholarship and didn’t need anything. They still found every way to give to me. In America we often give in ways that don’t change how we live. What I saw there was real sacrifice: after they gave, they truly had less.

China also taught me that I have more in common with a Chinese Christian communist than with a Texan atheist capitalist. What binds us together is Christ, not a country or a political system. That is the unity I want to see in the body of Christ.

“It’s easy to get along with everyone who’s like you, but the glory of the gospel is that it’s broken down the walls of hostility between people groups.”