We’re Rainmakers, and we’re finding and spreading good news.

All over the world, in every city and town are not-for-profit ministries and outreach organizations performing miracles on a shoestring. Maybe more miraculous are the individuals or groups of people independent from any formal group who simply serve others. They are feeding hungry people, housing homeless individuals and families, finding lost children of all ages, responding in faith to realities on our border, or providing any countless number of desperately needed community and humanitarian services that often fall outside the touch of more formal organizations. They do things that simply need doing!

And these good things are being done at an alarming rate! All over everywhere, people are hard at work filling real and immediate needs. Despite what we read, over and over and over, there is good news.

The trouble is, few know about either these masterpieces of love, or the tiny miracles healing communities. And maybe more damaging, no one knows the stories of people being served and being helped back to their full human dignity.

At Rainmakers, we’re trying to fix that! We are telling the stories of the people helping and encouraging others. We are singing the song of the unsung heroes. Yes, to celebrate the victory of the helpers and the helped—and maybe most crucial—to further inspire those people who accepted the help begin to help others.

A homeless man walked into a downtown church in Kansas City, asked for a shower, and six years later their all-volunteer staff provides twenty-five showers, fifty breakfasts and a hundred lunches a week.

A border ministry run from both sides of the US/Mexican border is making both a spiritual and humanitarian difference in the midst of profound ongoing pain…by attacking the root causes of migration, by responding in deep faith to realities on the border.

An inner-city group living in intentional community (and a former convent) is addressing both poverty and homelessness by keeping people in their homes. They provide inexpensive home repair and manage a tool library to allow their neighborhood to help heal itself.

What are they all doing, these dedicated people and caring collectives? They are making the world better. Groups of compassionate people are seeing possibilities for healing popping up everywhere. These tiny groups are seeing needs and filling them: lunches made, people encouraged, wounds bandaged, dry wall properly repaired, water to the thirsty, shelter in a political storm. The result? Human dignity fully restored. Or at least the start of a safe road back.

But not only organizations! Individuals everywhere are simply trying to help their neighbors, to make their village better. Every person with a drop box library on their corner, every mom who volunteers at her church, synagogue, or mosque, those construction guys in North Carolina that build ramps for free at homes of those who ride wheelchairs, every family that found a child who had no place to live, then opened their arms and their front door and simply said, “Welcome home!”

Need some more examples?

The pastor that has dedicated himself to—in the midst of tending his flock—working daily with those in the prison system. The police officer who is also a lawyer, defending drunk drivers. The two doctors who volunteer on Sunday morning to wash the clothing of the unhoused and provide immediate health care for those in dire need. People using their gifts and talents to, well, simply put, do good.

Others are leveraging their past pain—and what felt like failure at the time—and putting that seemingly bad-life-experience to good-life-use. A young woman who had a child at fifteen and now volunteers to help others in the same situation. A recovering alcoholic, fifteen-years sober now helps lead a ministry to feed and shower the homeless, many of whom struggle with substance abuse. The young lady who struggled with depression and an abusive relationship, now managing a shelter for women who are now where she once was.

And not enough is being said about it! As one of our supporters said, “Hope is contagious. One small good deed, is good in and of itself. When someone does a good deed, hope is transferred like a virus! The act of acting makes you feel better!”

She continued, “there is another underworld, an underworld of good. Every kind act, every good word, every kind thought, all the good that’s done when no one is looking, these things need to be celebrated. Change a flat for a stranger, hold a door for someone with their arms full, that bumper sticker that suggests committing random acts of kindness is kind of true!”
She’s right! We often talk about celebrating things. The trouble is, of course is that no one ever throws a party. We are trying to fix that!

We’re Rainmakers, and we’re finding and spreading good news.

We’re finding and telling stories. True ones. The people who’ve been helped, and the people lucky enough to be standing there when miracles happen. Stories that celebrate every small victory over human tragedy and difficulty. Stories of people hard at work to make the world a better place. We’re finding and spreading good news. Our vision, despite all the constant claptrap to the contrary, is that the world is worth saving. And our mission is to say so.

How do we do it? Right now, we are making short films that honor, celebrate, and explore those people on the real frontline. And we are meeting online to talk about it! We’re highlighting the peace warriors, the people fighting the battle for Good, the work they do, and the impact they are making.

Someday we hope to have a thriving community of communication, showing how people care, helping those on the cutting edge of care by getting their word out, and by connecting those in need with those who want to help and encouraging people to get out there and help!

Our long term plans? A podcast series of care-sharers , a group of print and media profiles of the real do-gooders, and a vibrant on-going discussion about what help actually is, what it actually isn’t, and how we can improve our needy but worthy-of-care world.
But for now, we are simply spreading much needed—and overpowerfully prevalent—good news.

 

Care to join us?

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