Only a Good God

Hello Food Rescue Family,

On the eve of our first fund-raising event, I would like to share with you a vision for the future of our mission and organization.  Over the last 16 months, I have been contacted by many people who are familiar with not for profit charitable businesses, and they have all drawn for me something I had never seen before.   They’ve all drawn a triangle, made up of events, small financial partners, and large financial partners, with the large partners carrying the most importance in sustaining the charitable activities.

As I have digested this model, I cannot help but recognize how distinctly different that model is from our actual organization.  There are very few “key people” within Food Rescue, or should I say that everyone involved with Food Rescue is “key”, depending on your point of view.  In a perfect world, I would like to look back on things and for it to be impossible to point to one financial gift that led to families and children continuing to be fed in our country, rather the contributions of many, which is exactly how the Food Rescue service model was born.

It is my vision to see Food Rescue funded in the following manner.  500 people giving $50 per year, followed by 1000 people giving $25 per year.  After reaching that benchmark, 2,500 people giving $10 per year, and then 5,000 people giving $5 per year.  Each partner in that chain would be as important as the next, just as each volunteer is just as important as another volunteer.    With all of those partners in place, we could expand our impact beyond our imagination.

16 months ago, there was no reason to believe 1500 people could deliver 3 million dollars of retail value food to families and children in need acting in concert together across our nation.  Yet God allowed our story to travel, and here we are today.  Could our funding occur the same way?   Since rolling this vision out to just a few people 6 days ago, 50 people have responded to our 500 Club, which is the first wave of partners at $50 per year.  We need 450 more to move onto phase 2, which is the 1000 club, which would be 1000 partners at the $25 per year level.  Please prayerfully consider sharing this vision with the same passion you have shared your passion for service with Food Rescue, and we will have a story to tell that will confound all conventional wisdom in any world, let alone the not for profit world, and will leave no one with any explanation other  than a good God stretched out His mighty hand to provide for families and children in their time of need, having nothing to do with any one individual.  We will proclaim together that we serve a God of ”sufficiency and abundance” and leave the simplictiy of our actions as a testimony for our world to examine.  This is my vision, this is my passion, and this is my prayer.  Thank you for your encouragement with this vision.

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God Bless,

JW