b'CONTENTSDAYTODAY Practical help with the operations and ministry of your organization continuedFULL PLATE Supporting Guest Health50 Providing care through nutritional education by Barbara Streeter RIPPLES Means and Ends52Why policy governance matters by Herb Smith ACROSS THE STREET Hope in the Hardest Season54Creating space for joy and grief by Allison Eischer FINDING FUNDSPlant in the Spring56 Do you have a major donor contact calendar? by Roy Jones, CFRE PR TOOLKIT Video Pro59Tips for looking puttogether on camera by Ami Neiberger, APR INSURANCE SOLUTIONS Safeguards60 Key practices to protect your ministry, staff, and guests by Jon Barron and James DickAD INDEX61 The magazine of Citygate NetworkGATEPOSTS 62November/December 2025Citygate Network News and EventsVolume 39, Number 6INSTIGATE Publisher: Tom De VriesEditorinChief: Bethany Wininger Managing Editor: Holly Johnson Staff Writer: Alice Rodriguez Advertising Manager: Sam Edwards Designer: Mike Hames Instigate (ISSN 26419041) is Citygate Networks bimonthly publication created to inspire, inform, and equip leadersEditorial Assistant: Deborah Helmersserving on the front lines of homelessness and life transformation. Published as a service to members, InstigatePhone: (719) 2668300delivers timely insights, practical tools, and compelling stories that speak to the challenges and opportunities facing rescue missions and life transformation ministries today. Each issue explores innovative approaches, faithdrivenFax: (719) 2668600 solutions, and best practices rooted in realworld experience. As part of a growing movement, this publication reflectsEmail: editor@citygatenetwork.org Citygate Networks mission to equip ministries to transform lives from suffering to flourishing through the gospel. Instigate magazine welcomes contributions and comments. Please send photographs, queries, ideas for articles,Web: www.citygatenetwork.org feedback, and address changes to editor@citygatenetwork.org,or to Instigates editorial, advertising, and circulationPhotos: iStock, unless noted offices at Citygate Network, 2153 Chuckwagon Road, Suite 100, Colorado Springs, CO 80919.Printed in the USA All Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, unless otherwise noted.Copyright2025 by Citygate Network 5Copyright1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.'