2024 Newsletter & Highlights
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Greetings from the Finney Foundation!
2024 has been a time of preparation and transition, with expectations of the new year filled with change for a lot of American's. One thing we know for sure within that, our desire to help others will not change. Matthew 26:11 reminds us, those that need help will always be with us, and we know The Lord will always provide for us to do so. It's just up to all of us to follow through! We've seen and appreciate your help in 2024 and look forward to continuing to help as many possible, with your continued assistance in 2025. Throughout the pictures and attributes below, please know your contributions help make this possible! The old saying goes, what you see is what you get. We hope you see your gifts at work with even more souls helped in the coming year.
Thank you and God bless you!
Finney Foundation
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Clothing & Supply Donations
During January of 2024, we received a large donation of clothes, shoes and supplies from the Walmart distribution center of Howard County, MD. These items were distributed to students in need within Fairfax County, VA schools. Although Fairfax County boasts one of the most financially successful counties in VA, it is home to many families struggling to work and live in the county.
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Putting Faith to Work at St. Sabina
St. Sabina in Chicago, IL continues to put social justice into action through their work of providing spiritual and tangible support in the community. We're overjoyed to partner with Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Pfleger through donations supporting youth programs and the Catholic Charities food pantry that closed but is now reopened and being operated by St. Sabina.
Year round youth mentoring, creative arts, sports, and media, for Chicago's up and coming young leaders!
Food pantry at St. Sabina Church reopens
Food Distribution - serving nearly 1,000 people per month
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A Mother's Heart ❤️
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Weekly Food Donations for the Community
In partnership with The Journey Church, your gifts provide food donations to the community food pantry, located in Franconia, VA. Non-perishable food items are stocked weekly for whosoever will that needs extra food assistance. We've also been blessed to provide potatoes and onions during the winter months. Our concern for spoilage was easily ceased after the produce was immediately scooped up!
The Journey Church
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Student Weekend Supplies
School is not only a place of learning, but also serves as a main supplier of meals for many students. When at home on weekends and during holidays those meals are often missed. Our weekend supplies program helps students maintain nutrition when not in school. We hope to extend this program to supply larger meals and more snacks for students in schools throughout Virginia and Maryland.
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School Supply Donations
Providing school supplies between VA, MD, DC, and MI has been a staple of our programs since our inception. Some years have been harder than others. A bright spot has been the outpouring of donations from you, our family and friends. It hasn't always been easy getting schools to participate. It would seem easy to donate school supplies to students in need, but we've meet some angels who've helped us distribute supplies to students year after year. We continue in the pursuit and are thankful for your gifts to help students in need learn and succeed!
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Winter Weather Donations
During the winter months, we want to ensure those we're able to help have meals and warm weather items for the holidays! Your gifts ensure Food Lion Food boxes, non-perishable food items, warm clothes and supplies are donated to those that need them especially when temperatures fall! We thank The Historic People's Community Church for their hard work in serving those in the Detroit and Highland Park Communities all year round! Your donations are helping those communities, along with families in VA, MD and DC be warm and feed!
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Mentors Leaders
Through donations Global and Community partnerships bring aid, restoration, and sustainability to both the physical and spiritual needs of the people served. In 2024 donations were provided in the ongoing service to communities in El Salvador through mission trips made by Mentors Leaders.
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Community Outreach
Our homeless brothers and sisters are always on our minds and in our prayers. Your gifts provide essentials for the homeless and those in shelters. Portable toiletry and snack packs are distributed to anyone in need seen on our streets, in communities, wherever we come upon souls in need. As the cost of supplies have increased, it is our goal to continue to give the same provisions in even greater quantities!
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Samaritan's Purse - Operation Christmas
The Finney Foundation participates annually with Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child, a project that collects shoebox gifts for children in need around the world! The project's mission is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with children in need while providing a tangible expression of God's love. Individuals pack shoe boxes with gifts like toys, school supplies, and hygiene items. Local churches and ministry partners deliver the gifts at child-friendly outreach events. Children who participate in the program learn how to follow Christ and share Him with others. As they do, entire families and communities are transformed by the power of the Gospel, and churches are started.
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