Give a Meal. Change a Life.
Food isn't everything, but it is the foundation. Each $2.02 provides a complete meal for one person!
At Redwood Gospel Missions,
Food is How We Share God's Love.
By the time someone comes to us, they are desperate. They need food but not just any food. They need healthy, nourishing food.
Then, and only then, can their bodies and minds begin to heal. Then, and only then, can they really see clearly. Then, and only then, can they begin to take steps to change their lives.
Every meal makes a difference!
Alone.
Dying.
Desperate.
Without the Mission and meals friends like you provided, Wayne might not be alive.
When Wayne came to the Mission, he was on death’s door. He’d just gotten out of the ICU, where he’d been on dialysis for kidney failure. His family wasn’t speaking to him. They were frustrated with his drug use and not managing his type 1 diabetes.
With nowhere else to go except the streets, he came to the Mission to recover. But here, because of friends like you, Wayne didn’t just recover. He began living a new, healthy life.
“Before I graduated the program, my doctors took me off the last blood pressure medication. I was on five blood pressure medications, and now I'm on zero. And they did tests, and they said to me, 'You were diagnosed with chronic heart failure.’ They said, ‘We no longer see that in your test results.'”
That’s because in addition to providing nourishing meals, gifts from friends like you helped every aspect of Wayne’s health: mind, body and spirit. He knows that if it weren’t for the Mission and supporters like you, he wouldn’t just be as healthy as he is, he might not even be alive.
“Having to be able to take insulin to survive, I think homelessness would've killed me,” Wayne says. “I'm so thankful for the Mission.”
“The benefits of the health plans that we have with the Redwood Gospel Mission mean so much in recovery because bad food equals feeling bad.” – Wayne
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
Whoever eats this bread will live forever.
This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
–Jesus (John 6:51, NIV)
GIVE THANKSGIVING MEALS!
Each $2.02 you give now helps feed one person.
Every meal you give can demonstrate God’s love, spark hope
and help someone take steps to change their life.
Together, we can feed 4,000 of our neighbors in need!
Tom Schwedhelm
Former Mayor of Santa Rosa
“The Redwood Gospel Missions continue to add significant value in our community. One of their greatest contributions to those they serve is the offering of hope. Hope for a better life, which is a benefit to all of us.”