FOR 30 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN SEEING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TRANSFORM A GENERATION OF MEN, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES
WE HAD AN INCREDIBLE BANQUET, HEARD SO MANY GREAT STORIES OF LIFE-CHANGE, SHARED A FEW LAUGHS, SHED A FEW TEARS, AND CELEBRATED THE IMPACT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IS HAVING OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES
In Hope Now “Family” 17 years Current Employment Foster Farms, small business entrepreneur Life Verse Proverbs 19:20-21 Food Fave Lok-Lak (Cambodian beef salad) Street Word We Should Know “Don’t wo-wo” (don’t worry)
MARCOS AGUILAR
“LIFE CHANGE AWARD”
In Hope Now “Family” 17 years Current Employment Home Care Provider Life Verse Galatians 6:9 Hope Now Nickname “Mac” Best Hope Now Memory Men’s retreat at Lake Hughes when Andrae Walker (may he rest in peace) won the chubby bunnies game Street Word We Should Know “Pisto” (homemade prison wine)
DANNY RICE
“PERSEVERANCE AWARD”
In Hope Now “Family” 9 years Current Employment Food entrepreneur, “Bouillon Boys” Life Verse John 3:16 Food Fave Chicharrón con Chile Best Hope Now Memory Heart-to-heart conversations with Paul & Johnny Street Word We Should Know “Let’s dip” (let’s go)
ROB LOWE
“GRIT AWARD”
In Hope Now “Family” 8 years Current Employment Bridge Church Life Verse John 3:16 Hope Now Nickname “Pooh Bear” since 2019 Best Hope Now Memory The sense of family among all ethnicities
OSCAR RODRIGUEZ
“GENEROSITY AWARD”
In Hope Now “Family” 28 years Current Employment CEO of Martin Park Life Verse Genesis 37-45; the story of Joseph Food Fave Pizza & hot wings; once won the hot wing challenge at Hope Now Best Hope Now Memory Summer Celebration at FPU when my kids were small Street Word We Should Know “Keep it real”
Stories Of Hope
BRING A DESSERT FOR THE AUCTION.
WE NEED DESSERTS!
Each dessert can mean the difference between the streets and achieving one’s dreams.
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Isaiah 43:18-19
Reasons To Celebrate
Thank You Sponsors!
Vision Sponsors
Skin & Andrea Mead
Corey & Ann File
Gold Sponsors
Rod & Ruth Rimmer
Grace Sponsors
Rev. Roger (Founder) & Marilyn Minassian
Vanna & Marly In
Trinity Community Church
Jolene & Leon Thiessen
California Teriyaki Don (Herndon/Cedar)
Deli Delicious (N St/Tulare )
Kaye Cummings
Franklin & Lisa Spees
Sponsor This Year’s Banquet
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