CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES

Programs

1. The residential portion of Crazy Love Ministries' office building is used to purposefully create an intentional christian community and helps those who are in poverty or have low income. Each of the tenants agree to stated christian beliefs in efforts to help develop this community. Each of the rooms rented to the tenants are rented below market value. Crazy Love Ministries also has other properties around the bay area (particularly in low income housing areas) and rents the properties to low income individuals and families at below market value to help them develop community and plant churches where they are. In addition to the neighborhoods of san francisco, we have also focused our attention on the areas of daly city and bayview. In 2022, Crazy Love Ministries purchased a new property in los gatos for the purposes of creating a place of retreat for people to get away and spend quiet time with the lord. After a few years of ministry and outreach work in east palo alto, we purchased a property in epa in 2024 to further our church planting efforts there.

   $434,361 spent$243,147 earned by the program
   26% of program spending

2. Crazy love helps other christ-centered organizations, both locally and globally, through grants and love offerings. Some of the organizations that we have supported in 2024 include: kardia ministries, village life, thess bar, we are church and bridging nations international ministries.

   $407,382 spentof which $407,382 as grants
   24% of program spending

3. Content & resources - crazy love exists to create and distribute world class content and training to serve the church and encourage the body of christ. Publishing - francis chan has published numerous titles over the course of his ministry. In the last 10 years, his titles include: you and me forever, letters to the church, and until unity. Each title focuses on a specific message that the lord had for francis to share. You and me forever was intially self-published in 2014. It has since been sold or downloaded close to 1 million times. With many resources (such as videos and an electronic copy of the book) that are made available online for free, and with international translations being fulfilled in over 20 launguages and countries, we anticipate that you and me forever will continue to point marriages far and wide to jesus, as we pledge to give 100% of the net proceeds of the book to christ-centered ministries around the world. In the fall of 2018, francis partnered with david c. Cook to release a book called: letters to the church. Letters to the church is the message francis chan felt god wanted him to share about god's desire for what the church should be like based on…

   $255,547 spent$123,101 earned by the program
   15% of program spending

4. Special projects: god often surprises crazy love with different opportunities to serve him, but these opportunities do not always become one of our core programs like content, teaching, mercy ministries, or housing. As such, we have created a special vertical called "special projects" to incubate these different areas that we get to serve him in. Our hope is that each of these "special projects" can be spun off as standalone, sustainable and effective ministries after a few years of incubation. Listed below are some of these "special projects".food development program: at the end of 2019, crazy love was approached by jones chan, a food scientist who had a recipe for an innovative food product that would be 3 to 5 times more nutritious than what was currently being distributed in food relief programs around the world-and this food product was cheaper too! Crazy love began a partnership with jones and developed our superfood initiative to launch in afghanistan. We worked closely with a local partner in afghanistan who was already on the ground there and had the infrastructure to not only make this food product, but also to distribute it at scale. Even with the fall of the country to…

   $243,011 spent$51,342 earned by the program
   14% of program spending

5. Teaching - church intensive was started in 2017 and is a training program for pastors and future leaders to study ecclesiology alongside of we are church, the church planting network started by francis chan in 2013. We are far from perfect, but we are experiencing some of the blessings promised in scripture, as we structure the values of our church on what is biblically commanded of the church in scripture. Our hope is to encourage others along in their journey. Through the church intensive program, participants can engage in classes taught by pastors of we are church, participate in our house church gatherings, hit the streets with us to reach out to the local community, and refocus in prayer both personally and corporately. In addition to offering online classes, we have launched 2-3 day long programs that meet in-person in different cities across the u.s. We have also started regional networks, so that like minded people in the same areas could connect with each other for mutual support and encouragement.

   $240,198 spent$17,939 earned by the program
   14% of program spending

6. Mercy ministries - in line with our values to pursue jesus's teaching to love and serve those in need, crazy love formed a division called mercy ministries to advocate and model a lifestyle of sacrifice and love for the poor to the church. To do this, we identify and serve the poor and most vulnerable areas that we're in, both locally and globally. Globally, we partner with god-centered, like-minded organizations to create opportunities of engagement for the church and to mobilize them to serve. Locally, we continue to invest deeply in low income areas, such as bayview and east palo alto, by planting churches, building community and sharing the gospel.

   $95,768 spent$22,621 earned by the program
   6% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,676,267.