The mission of Salt & Light is to share God’s love by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. “to share God’s love” What does it mean to share the love of God? God’s love includes every…
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The Impact of Your Volunteer Time at Salt & Light
While our amazing, dedicated staff works hard each day to make Salt & Light the best it can be, we literally could not operate for a single day without the efforts of community volunteers who come through our doors to sort, stack, stock, stage, and sacrifice their time to make Champaign-Urbana a better place. Their work makes opportunity possible for people in poverty to have their needs met with dignity and grace.
An Incomplete Understanding of Poverty Leads to Solutions That Don’t Work
What is poverty? Merriam-Webster defines poverty as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Our government’s own definition (all 184 words of it) is rooted in income thresholds based on…
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Faithfully Standing in Prayer for Our Community
Violent crime is nothing new to our twin cities, here in central Illinois, especially the last 5 years. While we may grow calloused to being bombarded constantly with news reports of tragedy, it hits a nerve when a child or…
4 Ways Salt & Light Partners with Churches
Our mission here at Salt & Light is sharing the love of God by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. As we work to accomplish this mission every day, we partner together with many groups, individuals,…