Rev. M. Halloran
Board Chair
Retired parish priest. Founding member. Has served on the board continuously since 1994.
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A quiet work, steadily kept, for three decades.
Jehovah Jireh Ministries was founded in the spring of 1994 by a gathering of twelve congregants who observed that the needs of their rural neighbors exceeded the capacity of any single parish. What began as a Saturday morning food distribution from the back of a pickup truck has, over thirty years, grown into a modest but enduring work of mercy.
In 1997 the ministry secured the use of a decommissioned grange hall that remains our headquarters today. The transitional housing fellowship was established in 2006, following a prolonged period of discernment with regional recovery programs. The weekly prayer fellowship has met without interruption since 1995.
We have grown slowly and intentionally. We have declined expansion more often than we have accepted it.
To extend tangible, dignified assistance to our neighbors in material need; to accompany those in transition with steady presence; and to hold open a place of prayer for all who seek it. We understand these three works as inseparable.
We are an ecumenical, Trinitarian ministry. We do not require adherence to any particular denominational creed as a condition of service given or received. Our staff and volunteers represent a range of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions.
Governed by an unpaid board of seven, meeting quarterly. Day-to-day operations are coordinated by a part-time executive director and an operations coordinator, both of whom draw modest salaries set by the board.
Board Chair
Retired parish priest. Founding member. Has served on the board continuously since 1994.
Executive Director
Joined the ministry in 2011. Oversees program administration, finance, and board reporting.
Operations Coordinator
Coordinates volunteer scheduling, pantry logistics, and partner agency intake.
We maintain independent annual reviews of our financial records and publish a plain-language summary of activities each fiscal year. We accept no government contracts that would restrict the exercise of our mission, and we decline gifts conditioned on outcomes we cannot honestly promise.
We work slowly. We keep our commitments small enough to keep. We prefer repair to replacement, repetition to novelty, and presence to programs. We believe the scale of a ministry should be the scale at which its people can know one another by name.