This year has been difficult, it has also been full of productivity and growth. Below you’ll find a concise list of why this year was one to remember.
Most Awesome
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! -Philippians 4:4
- One full year of Eden Property Services social enterprise pilot/trial
- One full year housing core guys in Well House
- Purchased 29’ 5th wheel travel trailer for mobile unit
Most Awful
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
- Volunteer wrecked our van for food distribution
- Neighborhood Petition against the homeless
- Consistent harassment by code enforcement (aka “Neighborhood Enhancement”)
Notables
I will remember the deeds of the Lord. - Psalm 77:11
- 2 weddings between core people in our community
- Over 18 tons of groceries shared with neighbors
- Graced with more than 15,000 visits by our neighbors
- Acquired Ford Ranger & 2 enclosed trailers for Property Services business
Partnerships
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. -Galatians 6:2
- DACCO offered HIV testing twice a month
- Hosted the TPD’s and HCSO’s homeless initiatives monthly outreach in May
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- Spring - Serve-up
- Summer - Tampa Urban Project
- Two more USF interns
- St Paul, Faith Lutheran, and several Underground House Churches
- Monthly clinics with Tampa Bay Street Medicine
- Faithful individuals and families that give every month as financial partners
- Many more awesome individual volunteers joined the team!
Places Visited
"That is that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith" -Romans 1:12
- Birmingham
- Common Thread ministry network
- Tabitha’s Hands Housekeeping social enterprise
- Taproot: landscaping social enterprise
- A4One: Gym/Indoor training facility/ministry
- The Hub: cowork space/ community initiative incubator
- Seeds: Coffee House social enterprise
- Purpose Place: Thrift Shop employing individuals with disabilities social enterprise
- Redemptive Cycles: Non-profit bike shop
- Los Angeles
- Straightways: Ministry/social enterprise incubator
- Black Coffee: social enterprise
- Brockton Mass
- Developing partnership with IVCF and consulting to plan serve-up project
Continued Team Education
"let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance." -Proverbs 1:5
- Wrap Around 101 & 201 Certification with Dept. of Children & Families
- Asbury Theological Seminary: Business & Mission Conference
- Underground Network Summer Institute: Liberation Theology
- Mission Increase Foundation: Board Governance Workshop
- Mission Increase Foundation: Keys to Winning Grants for Faith-Based Ministries
- Business as Mission Seminar led by President of Christian Legacy Foundation
- Adult VBS at The Hatchery with Walter Brueggermann
Driving Values
Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. - Deuteronomy 6:7
- Jesus’ preferential option for the poor
- The importance of direct relationship, with those we identify with easily, and those we do not
- A love that is radical in its sacrifice and expression of mercy
- The inherent and God-given dignity of every human being
- Stewardship, and the reality that no one and nothing is trash
- Independence and interdependence, expressed in personal empowerment and responsibility
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