1981 to 2021, we can say, “look where He’s brought us from”. From Joe sensing the Lord leading him back to LA from Sunnyvale, California, where we started our lives and Mr. & Mrs. Joe Browne and our first 2 children were born, to come to LA and Joe found himself at a radio station, KTYM-FM, Inglewood; without any previous experience learned to produce a radio with us a retired RN who became our COVID Czar. She set the standard that has kept us safe and functioning to enable us to continuously serve our community. So we were able to be a Vaccination Center, we had our Summer Discovery Camp for a group of youth and we had our Christmas in July providing backpacks with school supplies for children in our community. God is GOOD!
Thanks to Esther Song, we now can harvest Faithful Worms to enrich our gardens or to go fishing.
MANNA FROM HEAVEN
The following organizations have been a blessing and we have been able to bless other ministries as well.
- The Dream Center
- Food Finders
- Ocean Gate Ministries
- LA Salad – Roger
- Food Donation Connection Harvest Program
- Carein (a new food rescue app, available to anyone)
Goals
- For the youth of our community: Resume the S.A.Y. Yes! Youth Development Program
- Enhance our Women’s Program to provide a positive outlet/alternative for women in the local shelter which is just a block away or from other housing situations
- Creative outlets for local Artists and Culinary Artists
- Family financial skills, parenting and marriage skills
Pastor Song’s Children for accumulating thousands of pounds of food and PPE supplies; a junior high, a senior high and freshman in college. Their father thought they should learn to seek donations and learn how to graciously receive declines.
The needs are great and opportunity abounds
- We need IT support for Social Media, pictorial cataloging, converting reel-to-reel into digital format.
Our greatest gift of love from God is the fact Joe, is still here with us today. December 5th, while beginning our morning service, Joe experienced some type of episode that made him become unresponsive, 911 was called. By the time the paramedics arrived, Joe had regained consciousness and is back to his normal self. Finally, my children got him to the emergency hospital and he was admitted. What initially began as a concern for his heart, because he was in the hospital, his lab work showed that he was losing blood. He was immediately given 3 units of blood and admitted to ICU, he was there for 2 days. They discovered he had a bleeding ulcer. The doctors said, had he been at home when that happened, Joe would probably be with Jesus right now. God is GOOD!
You Ask, “How Can I Help”
- Drivers are needed to pick up food donations: 3 locations approximately 5 miles one way for FICM
- Drivers are needed once a month to pick up food donations from the following locations:
- Inglewood – 4.8 miles one way
- Hawthrone – 14 miles one way
- Produce District – 4 mile one way s
- Volunteers are needed to assist with packing food bags on Mondays from 10 am to 12 noon
- Please consider becoming a monthly supporter of Faith in Christ Ministries
What’s on the horizon for FICM?
- For the youth of our community – Resume the S.A.Y. Yes! Youth Development Program
- Enhance our Women’s Program to provide a positive outlet/alternative for women in the local shelter which is just a block away or from other housing situations
- Creative outlets for local Artists and Culinary Artists
- Family financial skills, parenting and marriage skills
- The needs are great and opportunity abounds
- We need IT Support for Social Media, pictorial cataloging, converting reel-to-reel into digital format
This is what we do.
Isaiah 61: 1-4
Because of what He has done, we know he will provide.
Psalm 119: 57