A student-led movement
bringing Christians and Muslims together.

Truth, in love
We are about real friendship with neighbors of all faiths. We do not shrink from genuinely living out our faith. Nor do we ask others to be anything other than themselves to be our friends.
God. God eternally exists in three persons: the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was true God and true man, existing in one person and without sin. He rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. All who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
Scripture. God has revealed Himself and His truth in the Scriptures, and supremely in Jesus Christ. The Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing. They are trustworthy and of supreme authority.
Sin. All have sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death, and that as a result all human beings are born with a sinful nature that leads them to sin.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting punishment of the lost, and the everlasting blessedness of the saved.
TEAM


Chris Stackaruk
Co-Director
Kevin Singer
Co-Director
Dr. Chris Stackaruk founded NF, along with Kevin Singer, while a student at Wheaton College. He became interested in living a neighborly faith when he married into a multi-religious family. With a background in Evangelical ministry and higher ed., Chris holds degrees from Moody Bible Institute (BA), Wheaton College (MA), and the University of Toronto (PhD). Chris is a Senior Fellow at Cardus, a think-tank, and has won numerous awards for his research, curriculum design, advocacy, and community service.
In his spare time, Chris enjoys rock climbing, freediving, and traveling with his wife Reena.
Kevin was raised at the intersection of his mother’s Evangelical faith and his father’s Reform Jewish roots. He holds degrees from N. Illinois University (BA, Media), Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MA, Theology) and Wheaton College (MA, Theology).
Kevin has extensive teaching and leadership experience at both churches and colleges. He planted two churches with the Southern Baptist Convention (2009-14) and is now head of Media and PR at Springtide Research Institute. Kevin is also completing a PhD in Higher Education at NC State.

Kassidy Hall
Marketing Coordinator

Lauren Rink
Communications Manager
Kassidy was raised in a predominantly Christian neighborhood in Indiana. She first engaged with those of other faiths and cultures while traveling, and more personally through the medium of journalism while in high school.
Kassidy holds a BA from Taylor University, where she held multiple leadership positions on campus such as the Middle East club, which seeks to improve communal knowledge of the Middle East and current events.
Lauren grew up in a small conservative community in South Dakota. She first interacted personally with Muslim individuals and communities while she serving Moria Refugee Camp with EuroRelief in. Since then, her love for learning about people of other cultures and faiths has only grown.
Now, she is wrapping up her final courses at Taylor University, where she studies Public Relations, Marketing & Social Statistics. Her free time is filled with reading and sharing meals with friends. In the future, Lauren wants to use her voice to proclaim truth and light with research-based communication.