Name: Jeremy Noah Willet
Marital Status: Coming up on 7 amazing years of marriage
Job Description/Title: Co-founder/Director
Where were you born? Westminster, MD
What is a Scripture that the Lord is really using to speak to you right now? James 1:27. This has been my “life” verse for years, but has never meant more to me then right now. Not only does the Lord ask us to care for orphans and widows, but He then asks us to “keep oneself unstained from the world”. At the end of January, my wife and I found out we are going to be parents to a beautiful 5 month old baby boy in Ghana, Africa! Immediately this scripture reminded me to not only care for this orphan, but to also train him to go the opposite way of the world.
What are your biggest pet peevs? Sleep pants. Breakfast. People that wear sleep pants and eat breakfast.
What are you looking forward to the most in 2013? Becoming a Dad!
Favorite food/meal? “All Local / natural / organic meals”. Local beef with organic vegetables grown in our backyard with fresh fruit picked from our backyard fruit trees.
Favorite funny tour memory: Typically I drink a ton of water, especially on show days. I remember years ago playing a small club, and as we were backstage, I drank a lot of water and had to go to the bathroom before we went on stage. Unfortunately, there was no way out to the bathrooms without going on stage and interrupting the opening band, so I found an old aluminum water bottle in my bookbag and went in that…hoping to throw it away after the show. When we went on stage and started the show, the promoter noticed there was no water on stage, so he started looking around backstage for water for us. He couldn’t find any, so he grabbed my water bottle thinking it was filled with water. He brought it on stage, and I knew what was in it…but a fan in the front row didn’t, and she thought it would be cool to take the water bottle and spray the crowd. whoops.
If you could have one superpower, what would you choose? Flying. Frequent Flyer miles are good, but I think the actual ability to fly might save a lot of time/money.
What is the moment of ministry that you’ve been involved in that has had the most impact on your life? Launch of Hunger Strike 2.0 in September 2012 w/ a 10,000 meal packing event. To see over 400 people come out, excited about the new vision to mobilize missionaries, advocates and 1 million nutritious meals, gave us such encouragement to boldly move forward in the work that the Lord gave us to do.
Music you’re listening to these days: Fiction Family, Jesus Culture, Derek Webb
Describe yourself in three words: Husband, Father, Son
Most interesting out-of-country experience: Taking a postal bus to Northern Uganda with my wife, and staying in the community to visit a malnutrition rehabilitation center weeks after the East Africa Famine broke out in 2011. This re-awakened the reality of extreme hunger to me, and really shaped the vision for Hunger Strike 2.0.
Favorite WILLET song? “The Hungry”
What is your favorite country you’ve visited? Mozambique
What are you afraid of? HAARP (google it)
What is your favorite movie of all time? A Beautiful Mind
What words of wisdom/experience would you like to share with someone hoping to work in the missions or nonprofit field? Follow the prompting of The Holy Spirit, and don’t let the non-profit world of marketing/business destroy your vision of what God has called you to. In our efforts to “end poverty”, if we aren’t careful, we can easily forget the poor in the process, so always remember that we should not be motivated by an “end” to things, but should find joy in the work of serving the poor now, because “what we do unto the least of these, we do unto Jesus”.
What are you currently reading? “Raising Adopted Children” & “Red Letter Revolution”
Who are your role models? Jesus, My dad, Bono, Shane Claiborne
What are you excited about for the future of The Hunger Strike? I am super excited that we have consistent funding to mobilize 10,000 meals EVERY MONTH and that we are soon launching our Short-term teams program to take people to the field with us!
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