September 2025 Newsletter

Zack’s story of restoration

“God, I need you to show me that there’s a reason to keep going through all this pain,” Zachery Bishop prayed as he tried to starve himself in jail. “And also, God, I need you to show me who you are because I have no clue.” God has been answering that prayer ever since.

Zack grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, believing that no one cared about him. As a young teen he made stunt videos to win approval. “I realized that physical pain could mask the feelings that I had internally,” he recalls. His injuries resulted in opiate-based pain prescriptions, which began his addiction at fourteen. Over the next fifteen years he continued to chase relief from internal pain, which led to an addiction to meth and fentanyl. After multiple overdoses and arrests, in desperation, he cried out to the Lord. God, in His mercy, revealed Himself: a devotional appeared in jail, telling Zack that God was his loving Father.

After a turn of events he calls miraculous, God led Zack to His Mansion in November 2023, at thirty years old. “I wanted to know the Lord in a deeper, more personal way,” he says. During his Resident year, God helped him identify the nature of his pain and the lies he believed about himself and the world, then replaced those lies with “an overwhelming knowledge of His love.” “I would have identified as really defeated, broken, before I came to His Mansion,” Zack comments. “But something that He showed me is quite frequently quoted in the book of John, as John being the disciple that Jesus loved. For him, the title ‘the one that Jesus loves’ was above Apostle. He found his identity in being loved by Jesus. On good days, this is where I like to resonate.”

Zack graduated from the Resident Recovery Program in November 2024 and has since returned as a Servant Leader, where he continues to grow in God’s love.

A growing experience

His Mansion’s campus features several acres of gardens. They are well kept, beautiful spaces where God’s faithfulness and provision can be experienced year after year. The produce grown on The Hill supplies the community with a fresh, nutritious food source while also preparing for the winter ahead, filling freezers and shelves.

While the harvest matters to everyone who lives on The Hill, the mission of His Mansion is not to grow a great garden. The mission is to see broken lives restored through the hope of Jesus Christ. Vegetables are not the only thing growing in the fields.

The gardens provide an opportunity to follow Jesus for any Resident who works in them. They offer a setting for growth and an embodied expression of the gospel at work in the hearts of men and women seeking transformation. Farming, in a community setting, is a relational event. Brothers working alongside brothers requires teamwork, patience, selflessness and, above all, love. Sisters working alongside sisters requires graciousness, compassion, encouragement and, above all, love. Working in the gardens is an opportunity for discipleship and a venue for expressing the new life found in Christ.

Armand Paladino, Director of Operations, puts it this way: “the gardens provide an inviting space and opportunity where ministry and discipleship take place. Oftentimes, an issue that a Resident is struggling with is worked out through the shoulder-to-shoulder work that Residents, Servant Leaders and staff take part in.”

The gospel is meant to shape every aspect of life, including work and working with others.

New barn roof

Through the prayers and support of many individuals, churches and organizations, His Mansion is able to care for the men and women in the programs as well as the property and buildings on campus. His Mansion was recently blessed by a donor’s generosity and desire to fund a new roof for the barn.

Director of Women’s Programs

His Mansion is looking for a new member of the leadership team. The Director of Women’s Programs sets and implements the shared vision of His Mansion for the women in the Resident Recovery and Servant Leader Programs. For more information contact Courtney Jones, Executive Director, at court@hismansion.com.

Prayer requests

• Harvest season is taking place on The Hill. Give thanks for the Lord’s faithful and abundant provision of produce, and pray for the men and women working in the gardens and the canning room.
• His Mansion has several staffing needs. Pray for the Lord to send men and women to fill the administrative and operational roles.
• For the men’s and women’s dorms to be spaces of grace and truth.
• For networks and connections to be made for Residents who complete the program and move on from His Mansion.