First Fruits

first fruits ministries, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization, was formed to provide work and support for women struggling with homelessness, addictions, poverty and abuse. Our goal is to give a helping hand to working poor women who are on the road to recovery, overcoming family hardships or experiencing financial difficulties. We share the love of Jesus in tangible ways to give them new life, hope

and purpose by coming alongside them as they improve their finances to support their families. To that end, we operate a small batch bakery that produces gourmet teacakes that we sell at local Farmers Markets and online during the Holiday Season. We also assemble beautiful baskets year-round, with particular emphasis on our Christmas selections. In addition to our ongoing programs that include employment, job training, life skills training, educational advancement and mentoring, we are now offering dependable cars at affordable prices based on income and no-interest car loans for the women we serve. Because of generous friends and supporters like you, we can further help women struggling to support themselves and their families. We launched our Light the Way Home Affordable Housing Initiative to provide seed monies for our new venture. We are selling hand-crafted and hand-poured scented soy candles made by our own first fruits team to help fund the effort to provide safe, decent housing for low income working women. Last but not least, we have an online commerce business, Best Bargain Deals Now!, our eBay Store! We’re teaching computer skills, organization, inventory control, inspecting, shipping and customer relations. In keeping with our focus on God’s restorative nature of turning ashes to beauty, we are not only selling overstock and returned new items at well below retail prices, but we’re selling perfectly good discarded items. God has provided us a source for shelf pulled, returned or damaged Health & Beauty products from major drug and big box stores that we’re selling at HUGE discounts, well below retail and even wholesale prices. After each item is carefully inspected and outer packaging repaired, we’re posting it on our store, Best Bargain Deals Now! We’re also featuring new and used electronics in our store, so if you’d like to donate your old computer, keyboard, monitor, phones, etc., we’d be delighted to take them off your hands! Please support our ministry by either buying some of our products or by giving a tax deductible donation to our ministry to help struggling women get back on their feet. Remember your Purchase has a Mighty Purpose!