CHRIST KITCHEN

Christ Kitchen is a Christ-centered ministry providing work, job-training, Bible study, discipleship, support, and fellowship for women living in poverty in Spokane. Through the production and sales of gourmet dried food products, this ministry enables women to learn to work, to become employable, and to support themselves and their families without reliance on government programs or destructive relationships. The goal of Christ Kitchen is to offer a nurturing, healthy, caring environment where women learn work skills and life skills and also 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 and self-sufficient. Christ Kitchen’s call is to help women trapped in poverty to develop, renew, and heal, and maintain spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical health. The ministry of Christ Kitchen is founded upon the essential principles of Christ's life and seeks to aid homeless, abused, poor, disenfranchised women in their rising up out of poverty, ultimately to stand on their own feet with the security of Christ. Our mission is to reveal Christ and live out the Gospel with women who come to work at Christ Kitchen. Paraphrasing John the Baptist’s words in John 1:31, our task is to get people ready to recognize Jesus. We accomplish this through Bible study, individual mentoring, discipleship, support and fellowship. These elements provide an opportunity for women, who otherwise rarely enter a church, to hear the Word and discuss its application to their lives. Subsequent discipleship in our work setting and within developing personal relationships helps the women develop, renew, heal, and maintain spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health. The work setting at Christ Kitchen is deliberately designed to allow maximum interaction among the workers. We believe emotional health and interpersonal skills improve through carefully supervised groups.