Wishing you Love, Peace, and a World that’s Healed
Dear Friends,
Photo Credit: Valentin Petkov
Warm holiday greetings to you! It was a delight to connect with so many of you in response to our first Invested Faith newsletter a few weeks ago. Thank you for your continued enthusiasm for this work; I am so grateful for your ongoing interest and financial support.
As you know, we are building a fund that will allow established religious institutions nearing the end of their life cycles to send their resources forward to support social entrepreneurs who are working to seek justice, build community, and directly change unjust systems.
We are looking to connect with social entrepreneurs and to help them connect with each other. Invested Faith recognizes the power of stories to help communities see the diverse ways God is at work in the world. We want to create networks and narratives of mutual-support among congregations, communities and social innovators.
Help us spread the word!
We want to talk with those innovators who are working to create real change in our world. Help us to connect with social entrepreneurs who are living out these qualities:
Driven by faith:
Have you ever heard the saying “where there is good, there is God”? We believe that truth, and we’re looking for entrepreneurs who feel pulled toward the work of healing the world either through a specific faith motivation or through the conviction that the way the world is is not how it has to be. Wherever the divine work of bending the moral arc of the universe is happening, we want to be there.
Creating community:
The healing of the world happens at the most granular level through human connection. Invested Faith entrepreneurs build businesses that create opportunities for connection - for building the fabric that weaves our human community together.
Doing justice:
We CAN do well while doing good. Entrepreneurs who are driven by justice-making just as much as money-making are entrepreneurs we want to meet.
Addressing systemic problems:
Impactful justice-making goes far beyond social band-aids or even acts of compassion. Creative businesses can change the systems that undergird injustice by applying the pressure of competition to create opportunity and to right inequity. Read here about a business doing just that.
Building a sustainable business model:
The traditional non-profit model of seeking donations to support justice-making work is in the middle of a massive sea-change. We are living in an era of discovering new models for energetic, thriving organizations that, through innovative business efforts, can build long-term, sustainable justice-making enterprises.
Here’s how you can help
Help us seed the future by building our network of social entrepreneurs; tell us about one here!
Sign up below for our regular newsletters for stories of creative and faithful entrepreneurs who are doing this exciting work.
And if you are someone with a passion for justice and just enough imagination to embrace Jesus’ curious approach of seeding the future and watching where the work of God in the world takes root, give a gift to make that happen. $5000 will grant one social entrepreneur and make all the difference in the work they’re trying to do.
As we approach the Christian holiday marking the coming of the Prince of Peace, I wish for you and for the world we share that same abiding and transforming peace of God.
With gratitude and hope.
Pastor Amy
