THE RAINMAKERS
COMMUNITY
There’s a storm coming…and storms make it rain.
We’re Rainmakers, we’re finding and spreading good news.
Steve Zeoli made his first film at 14 and never really stopped. As a producer, director, and writer in both the corporate and ministry spheres, he has developed and produced short and feature-length documentaries, concert films, national TV commercial campaigns, and fundraising media. Steve felt led to formalize his theological interests and he completed his MDiv from Western Theological Seminary in 2020.
When a professor discussed the idea we are all co-creators with God, the idea for Rainmakers was born. “What would happen,” Steve thought, “if we used media to tell the stories of all those people doing just that? Compassionately co-creating peace and justice and care and wealth? People who are making it Rain!”
“Our vision is that the world is worth saving and our mission is to say so.”
All over the world, in every city and town are not-for-profit ministries and outreach organizations performing miracles on a shoestring. Maybe more miraculous are the individuals or groups of people, independent from any formal group, who simply serve others. They are feeding hungry people, housing homeless individuals and families, finding lost children of all ages, responding in faith to realities on our border, or providing a countless number of desperately needed community and humanitarian services that often fall outside the reach of more formal organizations. They do things that simply need doing!
We’re Rainmakers, and we’re finding and spreading good news. We’re finding and telling stories. True ones. The people who’ve been helped, and the people lucky enough to be standing there when miracles happen. Stories that celebrate every small victory over human tragedy and difficulty. Stories of people hard at work to make the world a better place. We’re finding and spreading good news. Our vision, despite all the constant claptrap to the contrary, is that the world is worth saving. And our mission is to say so.
As one of our supporters said, “Hope is contagious. One small good deed is good in and of itself. When someone does a good deed, hope is transferred like a virus! The act of acting makes you feel better!” She continued, “there is another underworld, an underworld of good. Every kind act, every good word, every kind thought, all the good that’s done when no one is looking, these things need to be celebrated. Change a flat for a stranger, hold a door for someone with their arms full, that bumper sticker that suggests committing random acts of kindness is kind of true!” She’s right! We often talk about celebrating things. The trouble is, of course is that no one ever throws a party. We are trying to fix that!
Someday, we hope to have a thriving community of communication, showing how people care, helping those on the cutting edge of care by getting their word out, and by connecting those in need with those who want to help, and encouraging people to get out there and make hope happen! But for now, we are simply spreading much needed—and overpowerfully prevalent—good news.
Care to join us?
