Christian Group to Match All Donations up to $500,000 for Midwest Tornado Disaster Relief

Foster’s Outriders, a Christian nonprofit organization, announced Thursday that it would match all donations up to $500,000 given to the ongoing tornado relief effort in the Midwest.

The group, founded by the late Foster Friess in 2018, noted that the recent tornadoes — which swept through Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee on Dec. 10 and killed at least 76 people — were among the most devastating in U.S. history in an email sent to donors on Thursday. Photos of the storm’s aftermath in Mayfield, Kentucky, showed massive wreckage with entire blocks of homes wiped out.

Foster’s Outriders will double donations in coordination with a tornado relief effort spearheaded by Relevant Church and Hardin Baptist Church, two local churches in Kentucky. The churches have organized the Mayfield Challenge Fund for their joint effort.

“Foster believed that a local church or charity can most closely be held to account to ensure that support is being fairly and quickly distributed,” Foster Friess’ wife, Lynn Friess, wrote in the email. “The Mayfield Challenge is managed by two local churches directly working to help those in need.”.. (Excerpts from the Virginia Star)