About Us
Let There Be Light is a nonprofit organization that assist deserving families to Let There Be Light in their homes. We work with neighborhood churches all over to find candidates that are in desperate need of assistance and with your donations, help them with their utility bill. If you are one of the many BLESSED people that would like to help us BE A BLESSING, please make a donation. Every dollar contributed goes directly to assisting deserving families.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Founding Story By Fred White
In 2018, my daily prayer became simple. Every morning when I opened my eyes I thanked the Lord for breath in my my lungs, a sound mind, mobility of my limbs and for waking up my family again. After a few request, I end my prayer with, “Please allow me to be a blessing for someone today.”
It’s amazing when you start praying for the blessing to be a blessing, how much more blessed you become. I believe Let There Be Light was the answer to that prayer.
In 2019 I was blessed with a promotion but with that new position came additional traveling. Traveling for me is not often a bad thing because it gives me time to be alone with my thoughts. That’s when God speaks to me the clearest. One particular drive back home I was in deep thought about what I am here to do. I have a good job that provides for my family and allows my children to have some wonderful opportunities but is that it? I do enjoy what I do for a living but do I love it? Absolutely not! Yes, a father, husband, friend are all important but I always felt like there was something else, something even more important.
Growing up on the west side of Chicago and Memphis, TN, I was definitely no stranger to rough environments. The youngest child of a single parent, struggle was normal. Although I found myself in the midst of storms quite often, there was always a piece within me. Something constantly reminding me that my current circumstance is temporary. My life seemed to be a book in which I didn’t know what the next chapter would hold, but I knew it would somehow have a happy ending. I developed this strategy that no matter how bad of a situation I was in, sooner or later I will open my eyes and it would be over.
That upbringing has stuck with me many years later. I remember the feeling of being hungry, scared, & abandoned vividly. Because of those chapters in my life, I have an extreme sense of gratitude for what I have now. I also have the burden of “why me”? Why was I chosen to make it out? Why was I chosen to go to college? Why was I chosen to have a good career? Why was I chosen to have a wonderful family? Why? I don’t have the answer to that question but I know I wasn’t chosen to go through that for nothing.
As I pondered about my purpose on the drive home it hit me that some of the worst memories were the days in the dark. The days when no matter how many times I flipped that switch, it didn’t work. The days when it didn’t matter how long I let the hot water run, it never got hot. The days when the television watched me instead of vice versa.
Just like that it hit me, I want to help that child in the dark see the light, literally. I want to help that single parent keep the heat on in the winter. I want to provide that family hope that their circumstance is only temporary.
Let There Be Light is my attempt to do just that. My family is committed to this cause and has signed up to be a monthly giver. If we are the only contributors and LTBL serves just 1 deserving family per month, it will be well worth it. My hope is that you too would join us. Make a one-time donation or plant a monthly seed, your choice. Either way you will go to sleep knowing that you made a difference in the most incredible way.