Impact Stories

In December of 2025 we started our crockpot initiative with 20 families, and it has grown each month since. We currently stock ready-to-go crockpot meals in our campus pantry for our students and their families, as well as occasional staff members going through difficult times. Each crockpot meal comes with the recipe, all shelf-stable ingredients and a gift card for any fresh items needed. When recipients are first welcomed into our crockpot family, they get a cookbook of si

The question that started Rising Tide's crock-pot program — and the system it became. I had just finished helping run our school's Thanksgiving basket program, partnering with a local organization to get holiday meals into the homes of families who needed them. I was already thinking about what came next — the Angel Tree, Christmas presents for our students — when something started bothering me. Our kids were going to have gifts. Good. But they were also going to have two wee