We believe that people struggling with poverty are not projects. As a relational ministry, we invite you to partner with us by shopping in our stores, volunteering your time, and donating your goods and finances.
At Salt & Light, we help community members gain access to food, clothing, and household goods, in spite of financial obstacles. More importantly, we offer a COMMUNITY of people to empower, affirm, and encourage. TOGETHER, we are changing lives and transforming our community.
Are you aware that Salt & Light goes beyond serving individuals dealing with the challenges of financial poverty? We deeply understand that poverty is more than a lack of material goods. It is also a lack of connection, opportunities, encouragement,…
Our Executive Director, Nathan Montgomery, shares the miraculous story of gaining ownership of our Urbana property.
The mission of Salt & Light is to share God’s love by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. What does it mean to share the love of God? God’s love includes every person. There is no…
This blog post, which Salt & Light kindly allows me to include here, will describe what inspired me to start REcompute, the project created to recycle old laptops, make tech more widely available, and keep old machines out of the…
When you walk through the doors of Salt & Light, you will see many people working throughout the store. In addition to our staff, there are: credit-earning participants people completing community service hours students in job training programs community volunteers…
When most people think of Salt & Light, they think about thrift (donations and sales) and our participants that earn store credit for volunteering with us. But it’s not only our credit-earning participants that depend on the resources and services…
