Call me presumptuous, but I don’t feel like waiting around! Been thinking long enough and want to cast Ex-Minister’s first project out to the winds to see if it would garner support! 

Latvia is in DEEP trouble!!! If you could only see the despair of a people whose government is probably headed for national bankruptcy. Things are VERY bad here, not sure what will happen. I’d rather not get too deep into speculation, but there is little to be optimistic about! Frankly, myself and evangelical leaders are concerned about the dire ramifications of the economic collapse; basic needs like food, clothing and warm shelter are desperately needed! 

THE PROPOSAL, we're looking for funding support

Ex-Minister would like for it’s first project to be based here in Latvia as a humanitarian operation starting ASAP that last through the bitter cold weather to help people get through until the springtime of 2010. I’m asking for humanitarian support to fund a soup kitchen to feed people! I’m talking a lot of people! 

The first location would be in Ogre, Latvia. We own a large home (living here until the bank repossesses it) in the city square within easy access of the train station. The first story is commercial property. The local mafia prevented us from EARNING a living (it’s a long story.) One of the businesses we had planned to open was a café. We could feed many people from our prime location. What we couldn’t open as a legitimate business due to corruption could do wonders as a soup kitchen! The mafia/local government can’t prevent us from GIVING AWAY such a basic need in desperate times like these! 

Secular and people of faith working together!!! 

Here is where it gets interesting beyond the humanitarian satisfaction of meeting a need. I plan to recruit church/religious people to do the work alongside of us. Some work has already been done towards this end, we are looking for an individual, company, corporation, etc. to fund this ASAP. Personally, we want to leave Latvia…but will stay awhile longer until the spring for this project! If someone steps forward, we will do it! Let’s make history, I would like to share that history with THE SPONSOR!!! 

A learning process and experimentation of the concept 

I want to learn and eventually perfect the process of getting secular and religious people/organizations working together for the common good! I would also like to learn to work/cooperate with agencies like the Red Cross and/or governmental operatives. The need is here, this would be a great place to learn before bringing this to the US, UK or Canada. 

I wouldn’t name names, but the faith community is interested in the project! The timing is right and we want to get things started as quick as we get the funding. Ex-Minister isn’t an organization at this point, I need to return to the US to get things started (but this wouldn’t prevent us from acting here.) This project would NOT be a tax deduction for someone, but I hope it is a compelling idea to someone that would want to make history with! 

Here is one suggestion: it would especially be nice if a Russian source were behind this! Why? There are strong anti-Russian feelings from the Latvians towards the Russians due to the history here. What a gesture of good-will it would be if a Russian backed source stepped up to meet a need in such times as these. Its certainly difficult to be angry when those you might hate are actually feeding you!!!  It is a win-win situation! 

The needs here go beyond food. There are medical, educational/school needs that a corporation might want to participate in as well. I will give full accounting of the project.  Ex-Minister wants to quit merely talking about the theory of the common good to actually seeing it performed! 

So there it is! I hope that this was not a waste of time; there is such a wonderful opportunity to do something special here. Potential partners should contact me by email brian@exminister.org . I need to know that whoever emails me is legitimate and just not another sick prank. So I would appreciate that email being verifiable, we could proceed afterwards and discuss the details.

Brian Worley of Ex-Minister

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