On Monday, representatives from the Community Empowerment Project, a partnership with local radio station 97.3 the Heat, came by Guiding Light to pick up some food donations for their Christmas food drive. Kitchen Director Allen Holt was able to give over ten-thousand pounds of canned goods, pantry items (such as mashed potatoes, pickles, brown sugar, rice etc.), coffee, paper towels and sanitary items to the Project. Being able to help other local organizations to help others is something we consider to be, as it says on Allen’s business card, “doing God’s work.”
Guiding Light works with local for-profit distribution networks that give away a percentage of foodstuffs and supplies to organizations like ours. It is because of our track record of getting donations into the hands of Grand Rapids’ men and women in need that these networks feel comfortable working with us. We receive tens of thousands of pounds of food donations every month, the vast majority of which goes to local churches, charitable organizations and causes such as the Community Empowerment Project.
As an organization Guiding Light is centered at the crossroads of private, non-profit, and community-based entities and is uniquely situated to collaborate and make sure that donated goods of all sorts are able to get into the hands of those that need it most. As Kitchen Director, Allen is able to procure large quantities of donated foodstuffs from local companies and has a vast network of charitable and religious organizations in need to send them along to. It is important to note that none of this would be possible without all the support that Guiding Light receives from all of you. All our tireless and generous donors, advocates, and volunteers, those who invest their spirit into the mission of Guiding Light, you are the ones that make all this possible. From all of us at Guiding Light, we would like to express our deepest gratitude from the bottom of our hearts for making all of this possible. Thank you, and God bless.
