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SUSTAINABILITY.

At Grace Klein Community, sustainability is an opportunity close to our hearts and essential to our mission. We believe all our resources are from the Lord and our job is to steward them wisely. We choose to inspire resourcefulness within ourselves, our organization, in Birmingham, and the world. Our prayer is for our hearts to become more generous with the Lord’s provision, knowing nothing in this world is ours. Our staff embraces sustainability everyday as we know resourcefulness affects our lives, our children’s lives, and all future generations.

2025 SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

Rescue 3,200,000 pounds of food from 600 food donors with 800 food rescue heroes
Preserve 50,000
pounds of food
Recycle 1,000 pounds of aluminum cans, 750 cardboard bales, and 3,000 pallets
Participate in 650 community events and love Alabama with 600 cardboard signs
Grow our Handfuls of Purpose program by 30% and GKC Garden Club by 50 participants
Increase monthly sustaining donors to $25,000

2024 SUSTAINABILITY
HIGHLIGHTS

GOD’S HEART
FOR SUSTAINABILITY

ENGAGE WITH
OUR 2025 GOALS

“When I think about sustainability, I immediately think of Luke 16:10, ‘Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will be dishonest with much.’

From the first day of Grace Klein Community, I felt strongly we were called by God to be a faithful steward of everything entrusted into our care. God has definitely taught us how to be resourceful and realize what we were wasting when we did not even realize we were wasting.

Almost everything has a dual purpose, and we are responsible to care for our Earth and prove faithful to anything and everything God provides.

My first lesson came the first year when someone dropped by four or five new toilets. We considered turning them away, but decided God must have sent them for a purpose. The next day, a lady walked in telling us about a GED center she was starting and her need for the exact amount of toilets we had. We responded with a laugh and said, “Oh those are in the trailer, God sent them yesterday.”

Today stewardship looks like food rescue, up-cycling old clothing, recycling aluminum, cardboard and pallets, or sharing food past human consumption with local Alabama farmers. Everything we have someone probably needs. All we have to do is slow down, listen to Jesus, and be trusted with the little or the much.

These days, providing food support for almost 20,000 people every week, the responsibility to God and our community feels like ‘much!’

May we always be wise, prudent and faithful to every asset, financial donation or tangible contribution delegated into our care.”

It is not about us,
Jenny Waltman, Founder

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