CHRIST KITCHEN
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to help impoverished women heal and overcome critical employment and life challenges such as felonies and reentry into society, lack of job experience, prostitution, human trafficking, physical, sexual and mental abuse, addiction, untreated mental health issues and more. We envision a community where no woman or her children who rely on her for survival, lives in poverty due to lack of skills, abusive relationships, or reliance on government assistance or unhealthy substances. Our program increases family stabilization, grows personal and community economic assets, and builds strong leaders who impact future generations.
About This Cause
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 25 years, Christ Kitchen has been an extraordinarily 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 stripes of their future generations. The need for the services that we provide is more critical and even more pertinent today than ever before. Our fervent battle against poverty in our city and state is staggering, the number of women living in, below or on the brink of poverty is unacceptable. Shockingly 19.4% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Spokane, WA (45k out of 207k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25-34. These are catastrophic statistics. Hope is required for survival within this reality. We already knew that a child’s future health and well-being are affected by the economic class into which they were born. A child born into poverty is more likely to have poorer health, lower educational attainment, and face more adversities than a child born into an economically stable family. The correlation that poverty and childhood adversity has is profound and intentionally heightens the potential to cycle across many generations. Our end goal and a foundational component of this program is to get the population that we serve to become God reliant and self-sufficient. Not reliant on any government assistance. We achieve this through in-depth job training coupled with life skills that lead to a GED, trade school, additional education, and or gainful employment all of which result in a self-sufficient, productive, community minded individual, gainfully supporting their family. This has a great impact on our community, as I am sure you can imagine. Christ, through this ministry, has reintegrated thousands of women into the community, self-sufficient and Christ reliant. They are earning a living wage to support themselves and the children that rely on them for survival. HOPE is the firm foundation this ministry is anchored to in Christ Jesus. If you have no hope, no sense of future and no sense of agency, it is very difficult to do anything different. You are unlikely to do the kinds of things it takes to get out of poverty, some of which require longer-term investments into change for themselves & their children. HOPE is rooted in genetics, personal experience and is heavily influenced by culture. If the existing belief structure suggests that if you work hard, that individual effort will get you ahead, you are more likely to be hopeful than if the social norm is 'We've been discriminated against. The system is stacked against us.' It does not matter what you do, you are going to fail. Research of our demographic strongly indicates that there are two types of hope: contentment and purposefulness. Contentment helps the poor endure their lot. A belief in a better future typically correlates with better performance in the labor market, more money and improved health. They need someone to take a chance on them, equip them, love them, and believe in them.