About Us
About The Nathan Project
The Nathan Project is a ministry providing hope, leadership, training, and place of recovery for men who struggle with the compulsive use of pornography and sexual addiction, the spouses and ex-spouses of these men and the families trapped in this menacing cycle of shame and addiction.
In the sexualized culture in which we live, the Nathan Project is determined to educate the church when invited that it may provide a safe environment to Restore, Renew & Rebuild broken men pursuing a life of integrity.
Our Mission of Hope: Engage, equip, and encourage Christian families struggling with pornography, sexual brokenness, and addiction. In New England, the Nathan Project offers a profoundly Christian solution. In the church, they will help build, manage, and sustain For Men Only (FMO)recovery and discipleship groups for sexually addicted men. FMO is a safe place where sobriety, recovery, and spiritual, emotional, and physical health can take place.
Our Vision: The church is a safe and open environment promoting the recovery of broken men, women and their families caught in the spiral of shame and, addiction. The Nathan Project will accomplish this vision through education of church leadership, small group training within the body and the availability to speak and preach on discipleship and recovery from pornography and sexual addiction in the family unit. The ministry of the Nathan Project will build up not tear down the Church in New England so in His strength it will prevail against the hyper-sexual culture attacking our families.
Directors
Since 2002 co-founders, husband and wife Rick and Vicki Kardos and the Nathan Project leadership team have engaged the ‘pornified’ culture in and out of the Evangelical Church in a battle for the health of the family unit. They live and keep the Nathan Project home office in Goffstown, NH. They attend Christ’s Church of Amherst in Amherst, NH holding past and current leadership roles in worship and men’s ministry.
Nathan Project founder and executive director tells his story on the internationally distributed program, Pure Passion TV. His changed life is the genesis of the ministry he and his wife Vicki now lead. He reflects on the love of his first family, a secret life of sexual addiction and the amazing transformation by the grace of Jesus Christ giving hope to all who struggle.
Advisory Council
Rick Kardos
Founder & Executive Director
Christ’s Church of Amherst, NH
Vicki Kardos
Co-Founder & Director of Women's Program and Ministry
Christ’s Church of Amherst, NH
Zach Ellis
Director of Communications and Development
Lynn Clough
Treasurer
Christ’s Church of Amherst
Richard Curtis
Area Director of Vermont
Crossroads Christian Ch. East Montpelier, VT
Erin Meehan
Office Administrator
Beacon Church – Londonderry, NH
John LaCourse
Healing Ministries Director, Rise Again Outreach
Derek Trudel (Kelly)
Event Coordinator
Beacon Church – Londonderry, NH
Nathan Project — Statement of Faith
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired and the only infallible, authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
- We believe in
- the full deity and full humanity of Christ (John 1:1-14, Hebrews 1:3-5, 2:5-18),
- in His virgin birth (Luke 1:26-38),
- in His sinless life (2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15),
- in His miracles (John 10:31-38),
- in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood,
- in His bodily resurrection (John 20:1-31, Acts 1:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8),
- in His ascension to the right Hand of the Father (Acts 1:4-11),
- in His present rule as Head of the Church (Ephesians 1:22, 5:23, Colossians 1:18),
- in His personal return in power and glory (Revelation 19:11-16, 22:7-21).
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (2 Corinthians 3: 17-18).
- We believe that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation of all who are separated from God by sin and rebellion (John 14:15-21, Romans 8:1-11, 1 Corinthians 12:3).
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are lost unto damnation (Matthew 25:41-46), and they that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life (Matthew 25:31-40, 1 Corinthians 15:42-57).
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, with equality across races, genders, and classes (Colossians 3:11).
(In agreement with the Statement of Faith – Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability®)
Testimonials
Thirty-eight years, that’s how long I had been locked in a pattern of sexually acting out and shame.
As a young teenager I stumbled into sexual addiction as a way to try to not feel the pain that I felt from my childhood experiences.
It’s been about 2 years since I stood up in the School Gym and talked about the secrets that keep us sidelined in being the men we want to be for God.
Anonymous
A Line in the Sand
Good Morning/Afternoon, my name is ******** and I am here today to share with you how the Nathan Project has impacted my life.
I enjoy hiking, camping, being outdoors. But I can count on one hand the number of times I have held a fishing rod.
Anonymous
I am not a Fisherman