Dear ISAAC Members and Supporters,

I’m writing after our first prayer fellowship of the year, carrying with me the faces, voices, and stories of those who joined from across the world. As we step into 2026, the ISAAC team has been praying and dreaming about what we long to see in the years ahead:

Christ-Centred Addiction-Recovery Workers and ministries who are supported, nurtured, sustained, effective and well resourced – flourishing in every nation.

And through them lives set free from the causes and impact of addiction.

For many of you this work is both a calling and a weight. Some of you serve in isolated contexts without colleagues who fully understand the emotional, spiritual, and practical pressures you carry. Others are stretched thin, trying to meet overwhelming needs with limited resources. We See You. And we believe God’s design for you — and for us as a network — is rooted in one foundational truth:

Everything begins with relationships.

We believe in a relational God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — who exists in perfect relationship within Himself and draws us into relationship through Jesus’ work on the cross. Transformation in the Kingdom has always flowed through relationship. When we look at Jesus’ life, whether with the twelve or the crowds who followed Him, people recognised that life — real life, “life to the full” — came through relationship with God the Father, enabled by Jesus and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

ISAAC is, at its core, a relational network. We are a community of people connected to God and to one another. We believe that investing in and nurturing relationships is not only biblical but essential if we are to see thriving workers, ministries, and organisations serving people in addiction recovery around the world.

Our relational DNA shapes everything we do as a membership body — training, mentoring, connecting, encouraging, and equipping those who respond to addiction in Jesus’ name.

To ground this vision, I want to share four theological pillars that guide us:

1. A relational God bringing us into relationship with Him

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ….
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.”
John 17:20–24

“19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.”
Ephesians 2:19–20

2. Imago Dei — People as image bearers finding full life in Christ

“So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27

“7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Genesis 2:7

“9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
John 10:9–11

3. God’s people in relationship with one another produce fruit

“23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together… but encouraging one another…”
Hebrews 10

“9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore… let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”
Galatians 6

4. Lived Kingdom principles point people to Christ

“34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
John 13

At ISAAC, we want the thread of valuing people and relationships to run through everything we do. When we honour people as image bearers of God, we create the conditions for healthy, life‑giving relationships within our network. As this culture grows, it strengthens your own convictions about how God sees the people you serve — not as problems to fix, but as beloved individuals created for wholeness.

Our hope is that what you receive through ISAAC — encouragement, connection, training, mentoring, prayer — will overflow into your ministries, churches, and communities. As frontline workers are strengthened, those they serve will experience the fruit. And as the world watches, we pray they will see unity, love, and the unmistakable witness of God’s Kingdom at work.

This year, we invite you to join us in building a network of strong, life‑giving relationships — relationships that strengthen us and the ministries serving people in addiction recovery across the world.
Wherever you are, you are not alone. Join regional gatherings, ISAAC Training, Mentoring, online prayer, and conferences. Let’s walk this road together.

With love and blessings,
Mitha Bleasdale
Head of Strategy & Relationships
ISAAC International