transformation through relationships
Working together to provide care to
children, youth, and families
transformation through relationships
Working together to provide care to children, youth, and families

Founders
Jason Nails, President
Jennifer Nails, Vice President
As we look back over our 23+ years of marriage, we can see clearly how God lead us on our life’s journey of loving the fatherless and the vulnerable. Our journey started taking shape when I (Jen) taught at a title one school in a low socio-economic area. We truly developed a deep love for my students and together, Jason and I were able to go on to mentor kids and families from the classroom and the community. Through these experiences and relationships, God placed a desire in our hearts to grow our family through adoption and to serve vulnerable children and families.
Each step and experience along the way has called for more faith, surrender and sacrifice; but God has been faithful through it all. We are blessed with 6 precious children (and a new daughter-in-law) and we cannot imagine life without one of them. Also, through years of leading mission trips to Ecuador, we developed strong relationships with several people with similar hearts and callings. Collectively, God put an incredible burden on us to do more for the kids that cannot be adopted but have to remain in institutions. Through obedience to that call Restore17 was born. With our family and R17 team, we have the privilege of loving and serving countless children and families and we get to point them to the One who makes all things new, the source of our hope in this broken world.
Our Team

Emily

melissa

David
Mentor
David is in his last year of college where he is majoring in Social Work. From there he plans to study Law and become a lawyer. However, his life was not always like this. David comes from a very poor family where there was no water or lights in the home. He lived in an environment with a lot of interfamily violence. However, he now realizes that God never abandoned him. He was always by his side, which is one of the reasons David chose to study Social Work. He wants to help vulnerable and at-risk youth and loves knowing he can make a positive impact in their lives as they seek God’s guidance for their lives.
Board Members

Scott Woodson
Treasurer

Dave Meadows
Secretary
Affiliations

Christian Alliance
for Orphans

For His
Children

The Santiago
Partnership

La Fuente
Church
La Fuente exists to be a bulwark of truth formed by disciples who grow and make disciples of Jesus Christ in Quito, Ecuador, and around the world, for the Glory of God.

Compassion
Connection
For over 20 years, Compassion Connection has been helping churches and individuals partner together toward planting churches, training leaders, and restoring communities.

Gospel Life
Church
At Gospel Life Church, everything is about and for the God-man, Jesus. Their vision is to make disciples that make disciples and plant churches that plant churches.

Live
2540
Live 2540 is committed to the restoration of hope and health for the abused and abandoned, the hungry and the sick. To create a climate where the Holy Spirit abides, compassion flows freely and in turn the Glory of God is revealed.