MISSION STATEMENT

One Life was started in 2009 by Bob and Jill Thompson, formalizing a Mission Call received twelve years earlier. The Mission is to Serve God, when called, One Life at a Time.  

The genesis of One Life, providing scholarships and mentoring to inner city kids, remains a core focus. While ALL children are worthy of a quality education and the resulting opportunities, One Life is not seeking to solve the macro educational crisis facing the United States. Instead, One Life employs a strategy of focused impact, choosing to propel individual lives.

This Mission has been shaped and inspired by the memory of Bob's father who passed away in January 2009.  "Big Bob" was a great proponent of education and an educator in his own right. He was an Adjunct Professor of Ethics at Vanderbilt's Graduate Business School and an attorney, all despite never having attended college.  From his inspiration, One Life seeks to provide the fuel for generational change in an inner city young life, access to quality education, mentoring and prayer.

When the earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, One Life felt the clear Mission Call to serve the Haitian people. The Foundations’s Mission has since been expanded to include “Missions to Disaster Zones.” This effort is positioned to provide gospel predicated relief and aid supplies to individuals stricken by crisis.

In Spring 2010, One Life received inspiration to expand the mission further by adding Project 10:15, which enables One Life to help smaller ministries develop and receive funding despite not having 501c3 status.

Each mission is focused on a ‘collaborative partnering’ approach, whether the partnership is with a school, church, NGO, other charities or individuals with a similar mission objective. To date, One Life has operated in collaboration with the Infinity New York Church in the Bronx (a Redeemer Presbyterian church plant)  the Infinity Mennonite Church in Harlem, Trinity Presbyterian Church in Westchester, the One5 Foundation, the Gravitational Energy Corporation, and Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, Stanwich Congregational Church, Greenwich, CT, Last Call Ministries in Villa Neuva, Guatemala and ACTS of LOVE in Port Chester, NY.

Inspired by the movie "The Second Chance," One Life invites you to seek your own Calling and to put your hands in God's soil.