CHRIST KITCHEN

Good day to you. Upon researching your granting guidelines, I believe that we might be a great fit. I want to ensure that I am understanding the guidelines as I am reading them. Here is a bit about Christ Kitchen: Christ Kitchen is a mission that has been serving Spokane for over two decades. We became a standalone ministry in February of 2017. We have a 4 FTE leadership staff. Christ Kitchen is a Christ-centered ministry providing work, job-training, life skills training, Bible study, discipleship, support, and fellowship for women living in poverty in Spokane and outlining areas. Christ Kitchen does not discriminate against persons based on race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability. For over twenty years, Christ Kitchen has been a very successful job training, job discipleship program for disenfranchised, impoverished women living in poverty in Spokane. Through the production and sale of our gourmet dried food products, our full-service catering services, food truck, café and coffee house, this ministry enables women to learn to work, to become employable, to support themselves and their families. Graduation from Christ Kitchen means that you are not reliant on government programs, any substance or destructive relationships. The women that graduate from our program become productive, contributing citizens within their community. The goal of Christ Kitchen is to offer a nurturing, healthy, caring environment where women learn work skills, gain life skills and meet relational needs. It provides a community within which to grow, learn, give, and be supported. While the incentive to earn money brings women to Christ Kitchen, it is the spiritual and emotional care that sustains them while they learn how to become employable, self-sufficient and Christ reliant. Our call is to help women trapped in poverty to develop, renew, heal, and maintain spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical health. Through the care, instruction, accountability and growth of the women we serve, whom often have critical employment and life challenges such as; felonies, lack of job experience, reentry into social society after incarceration, prostitution, human trafficking, physical and mental abuse, addiction, untreated mental health issues and much more. Our program enables the individual to change their stripes and the strips of their future generations.