Home of the Freedom Dinners. We exist to give freedom by creating beautiful community.
Home of the Freedom Dinners. We exist to give freedom by creating beautiful community.
Even if you cannot join us at the table for a Freedom Dinner, we invite you to be a part of the fight for freedom. Click here to donate!
8 years ago I was sitting in a gathering, listening to the reality of sex trafficking. I could not help but think about the what if’s. What if it was me? What if it were our daughters? The magnitude of the evil can force our eyes away from the reality, but that night I could not shake the thought that we had to do something, anything to help.
As I was driving home I had a crazy idea, ‘What if we invite our friends for dinner and ask them to pay for their seats?’ It felt so silly. Who asks their friends to pay to eat at their house? We started right there, with that one crazy thought, with one invitation to a dinner on our deck...it felt too simple to be anything important. And that is where I was wrong, that dinner changed everything.
Since that first dinner 8 years ago we have hosted hundreds of people and helped raise over $70,000. These dinners have literally changed everything for the women and children we support through Atlas Free, for our community and even more so for our family.
I know your table has the same power to give freedom and create community.
A dinner created and funded by your community of home bakers or bakeries, home cooks and chefs, artists, florists, gardeners and flower farmers, decorators, and dish washers all volunteering their time to create a magical evening for the guests.
Guests give a donation to Rescue:Freedom to reserve their seats with all costs for the dinners being covered by the community so every penny of the guests donations benefit Atlas Free to aid in the fight against human trafficking.
Every piece of the dinner is unique to your community. With all of it giving freedom. Who knew that your flower beds and cutting boards, your love for setting pretty tables or creating hand lettered signs could give freedom to a woman trapped in a life she did not choose?!
These dinners are not about one person doing it all, they are about everyone doing what they do best. When we invite people to help in a way that they love creating, we give them a place to connect their heart to purpose.
Beyond the amazing impact these dinners have on the fight against human trafficking, they also have a profound effect on your community. Everyone is waiting for an invitation to find meaning and purpose in their everyday life. Everyone is waiting for an invitation to make a difference. When we openly invite our community to create a dinner together we are also opening the door for people to connect. And when we have a chance to do life together we realize we are not so different after all.
Our table has become a powerful tool to bring our community together, from all corners, from all walks, from all jobs and beliefs : and all in the name of freedom.
You betcha! These dinners might have started in our orchard but we're holding them out with an open invitation to you. To help you create your own, and we’ve got you covered.
Start here with our How To Guide
Want more info? Kelly Welk, the founder of the Freedom Dinners, wrote a book all about it! Dinner Changes Everything
