Denise is retiring. The phone list she built isn’t.
After eleven years coordinating volunteers, Denise is retiring in June. She left us something better than a farewell speech: a phone list of 214 people who…
Our impact
We count everything, and we publish all of it.
Donors deserve the same numbers our board sees. Below: the stories behind last year’s work, and the audited figures underneath them. The uncomfortable ones stay in.
Stories with receipts
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What 89 cents actually buys in a week
People ask what the 89-cent number means day to day. Here’s one ordinary week from the March books: 1,240 pounds of groceries distributed Thursday; four utility…
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Ms. Alberts’ furnace, and the ledger line behind it
The call came on a Tuesday: no heat, seventeen degrees outside, a landlord who’d stopped answering in October. By Thursday afternoon a licensed contractor we’ve worked…
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The pantry needs Thursday people
Every Thursday at 4 PM, a line forms outside the fellowship hall, and by 6 it’s gone — sixty-some families, fed and known by name. The…
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Why we read one book of the Bible at a time
Visitors sometimes notice that our preaching calendar looks slow. Fourteen weeks in John. A whole autumn in Exodus. No greatest-hits tour, no verse-of-the-day roulette. That’s on…
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What to do with a hard week
Somebody in our church buried a parent this month. Somebody else got the diagnosis they’d been dreading, and somebody’s marriage is quietly coming apart in a…
The people who answer the phone
Four staff, two hundred forty volunteers. The staff’s job is to make the volunteers unstoppable.
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Denise is retiring. The phone list she built isn’t.
After eleven years coordinating volunteers, Denise is retiring in June. She left us something…
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start…
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Ms. Alberts’ furnace, and the ledger line behind it
The call came on a Tuesday: no heat, seventeen degrees outside, a landlord who’d…
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Spaced repetition is only useful if the learner knows it is happening
Hide the mechanism and repetition feels like punishment. Explain it and the same repetition…
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The pantry needs Thursday people
Every Thursday at 4 PM, a line forms outside the fellowship hall, and by…
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What 89 cents actually buys in a week
People ask what the 89-cent number means day to day. Here’s one ordinary week…
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What to do with a hard week
Somebody in our church buried a parent this month. Somebody else got the diagnosis…
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Why the keyboard fades
The most useful thing Key Odyssey does is take something away. The on-screen keyboard…