News Letter Summary
2024 Overview
2024: A Year OF Growth & Fruit
2024 Year End Campaign: $225,000
Ricardo – Pursuing A Future With God’s Help
Jose – Needing Food He Found Friends and Faith
Women’s Drop-in – In 2024
New Life for Youth And The Whole Family
Check Out 2024 New Update and Testimonial Videos
Source 2024 Update Fall Gathering Slide Show
Healthy Food Campaign For 2025
2024 YE Goal: $225,000 55% – $130k Raised – $95k Left To Meet Goal
$125k Healthy Food “Meat – Eggs – Milk” $5/Family Donate to Source
The discontinued rescue program and county grants have left a $125,000 deficit (30% of the food budget). Feed You & Pray for You: 1) Outreach & Food have been a bridge to 2) Recovery Resources & 3) Prayers – Faith Initiatives for thousands since 2020. In 2024 Source will provide $4.5 Million of HEALTHY Food Relief to over 600 family visits weekly – 30,000 family visits in ’24 (135,000 individuals). We have been able to do this for under 12% cost/value ratio – 2024 cost was $400,000 but will increase to $550,000 in 2025. In 2025 the cost will increase $5/family (from $15 to $20/family visit) to continue to provide HEALTHY Food. The cost in 2025 will be $20/visit that will provide $160 (more than 8x the cost) of food for the week. The average family size is 4.7.
$100k Recovery Resources & Faith Initiatives
Empowering Life Long Change Source is effective and unique. We are reaching the at-risk and unreached while doing things no one else is doing. Source also goes beyond meeting physical needs and empowers life long change. Our Recovery Resource and Faith Initiatives Programs provide the components that go from “Enabling with just physical needs today” to “Empowering foundations for lifelong change.” $100,000 is approx 40% of our annual budget for Recovery Resources and Faith Initiatives. This will allow Source to continue to do more than just food and provide hope to overcome, break from the past and empower to build future foundations.
Physical Needs, Healthy Meals & Prayer to Recovery Resources & Faith Initiatives
Homeless Outreach – 2024: 10,000 Meals
Ricardo – Pursuing a future with God’s help
Our Homeless Outreach team consistently treats individuals with dignity and love by bringing Healthy Meals and offering prayer and pastoral counseling. Making contact and building trust brings down walls and sets the foundations to pursue positive choices toward Recovery Resources and Faith Initiatives. Ricardo is one of such many stories, after interactions with the Homeless Outreach team he came to the weekly community meal / Bible Study and brought two friends.
At the end, we prayed for him and he was very touched and moved. He asked God to help him, asked for forgiveness, and prayed. The next day, one of the volunteers heard how he was telling his friends in the encampment about everything he learned about Jesus the night before with us. He came back a few times and then started coming regularly. He continues seeking positive change. It is not easy, but he moving forward. This month he decided to come to the Sunday service at the Viña La Fuente church. The church community welcomed him and prayed for him. He has found community and friends as he receives teaching about God’s Kingdom, love and forgiveness.
Jose – Needing Food He Found Friends and Faith
Jose is an elderly man who came out of necessity because he cannot afford his rent and food. He then became sick with heart problems and needed a cane to walk. He built a lot of walls but he began forming relationships at the community meals.
“God not only healed my leg but he healed my heart. I have found family and friends here.”
He then started coming alone to the La Fuente church service, and some of the young men began to build friendships. One day, during the Bible Study and with the whole church, we all prayed for him and his health. His health and leg got much better. The Doctor told him he no longer needed a cane. He then asked if he could share in front of the Church. He thanked the church and shared, “God not only healed my leg but he healed my heart. I have found family and friends here.”
Women’s Drop-In 2024: 1,000 Visits (200% Increase)
At Women´s Drop-In, Source has seen over 1,000 visits (200% increase) in 2024. Many heart breaking situations. Laundry, showers, hygiene products and food provide physical needs. Moreover they build bridges to Recovery Resources and Faith Initiatives.
Maria heard that Source helps people. She came for hygiene products and clothing. She opened up and shared about the traumas of traveling to and beginning to live in the USA with no resources. She began to cry as she received kind words and prayer. She expressed relief and gratitude.
New Life For Youth & Whole Family
Malcolm and Renee learned about Source and the food shelf from her mother. They have 2 daughters 11 and 12 and a baby boy. Malcum is an incredibly hard worker but he was new to the city and feeling many pressures to provide for his family. “I want to make sure my family has food and are safe.” They very quickly found much more than food at Source. They made contact by coming to get food and built trust as staff offered counsel and simple non-judgemental prayers. Within a couple of weeks, the whole family began coming to the Community meal /Bible Study. They all expressed they desired to be followers of Christ and the whole family was baptized together at the beginning of the summer. They all have a passion to understand the Bible and grow in their faith. “The girls are incredible students and have a wonderful hunger to learn what the Bible,” says Pastor Mally Source Staff. They are all regulars at the weekly Bible study, Every week the girls are dedicated to volunteering at the food shelf, helping with church set up, and helping with lessons for the younger kids. Source Staff Fernando and Mally are Pastors of Lafuente the Latino Church Source sponsors helped the family furnish their new apartment by bringing them to Heartland. They received kitchen, bedroom, and living room furnishings. Renee was overjoyed but she was a little disappointed as vacuums were out of stock. After a prayer on the way home, they got a call that a vacuum was not available. Renee cries when she tells the story as she never had a vacuum before. She shares with a smile, “God gave me a vacuum.” “God has given us so much and I’m so grateful,” states Malcolm, Renee says, “Many days in the past we had nothing to feed our children, now we have much more than food.” The girls walk with humility and confidence. “We love this place and the people at Source have been so good to us,” the girls shared. “When I grow up I want to help others like the people at Source.”
Supportive Living: Women & Families
Source apartments include single moms, Women survivors, at-risk families, volunteers, and staff.
Food & Outreach Programs
Food Shelf, Neighborhood Pop-Ups, Homeless Outreach, Women’s Drop-In, Meals, Teen Homeless Youth Rainbow National Outreach, Fallout Arts Initiative, Teen Internships, Healthy Cooking Class, and ESL.
A Bridge to Recovery Resources & Faith Initiatives
Case Workers, Supportive Housing, Mentors, Spiritual Conversations, Alpha, Bible Studies, La Fuente Latino Church, and local faith communities.
