Because of God's Grace (Bogg) Ministries is a non-profit organization started to help provide the people of Miamisburg and the greater Dayton area with food, clothing, and other essentials to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and to love people so they know that God loves them.

They hope to offer loving support and assistance with social, emotional, and physical needs. "It's our goal to bring the church out into the world, and not to be restricted to a building. We believe it's time for local churches to unite and become the expression of God's love to those who are hurting and need it most," the mission statement says.

Jason said they found that a lot of people in need of food cannot get to a food pantry. He and his partner decided to make a mobile food pantry and bring the food to the people where they live. They provide games for kids and help the parents. Jason said he is going around speaking to different groups because the story needs to be told that there is a need here.

He said he learned that Dayton was the fourth hungriest city in America. They started their work helping four families and using an old station wagon, he said.

They had no resources and went out one night a week. He found the people were sharing with their neighbors whose children were going to be hungry. They said if we're going to be hungry together, we can be full together, he said. Soon the number of families they were helping went from four to eight and then sixteen to thirty two. They were delivering until 10 p.m. The people who were hungry didn't care if they came late, he said. But then they started getting volunteers to help. They found the volunteers weren't as eager to enter strangers houses as they were, he said. When they had 32 families they began to build a community at Bellbrook Church, he said. They got a box truck with $2,600 and filled it. They found they needed more food as the program grew and began purchasing it from the Dayton Food Bank at 18 cents a pound. They found that many of the hungry had lost relationships and were in need of friends or folks to be a part of their lives. 

Jason said he'd invite them to the house and grill out and have activities like a community block party rather than a mobile pantry. People were so busy fending for themselves they were forgetting to be neighbors, he said.

They give out 60 to 80 pounds of groceries and a hot meal on site and interact with the kids. At Chevy Chase in Centerville, a subsidized housing complex, they found that a lot of mothers were there but not a lot of fathers. The Bogg volunteers played soccer and football with the kids and painted nails. They had nine areas with mobile pantries and last year they had 456 volunteers. You can come and go as you please, he said. You can come when you are available. He said they are a non-profit that works with churches and businesses and clubs. We all need one another to exist, he said.

They have two trucks now, one a refrigerated truck. Bill's Donut Shop in Centerville is one of the truck sponsors. When they only had one, he said he talked to a man who gave them $60,000 to get a refrigerated truck. For one dollar donation, Bogg can supply two meals, he said, so money donations are welcomed. They plan to include Kettering next year, he said. They have a staff of two and just added their first full-time new development coordinator.

The Bogg Web site states that the realization of the area's hunger problem brought about Bogg; Because of God's Grace Ministries.

It states that: Bogg has moved from feeding 4 families a week, to over 1500 people a month throughout the Dayton area. Food provided is distributed through mobile food pantries called Mobile Meals. These events occur at scheduled times and places each month, and there are no requirements for anyone to receive free food items. Anyone who comes out will be given a weeks' worth of groceries and a hot meal while they are there. How do we do it? We partner with the Dayton Food bank, and receive all of our food at a discounted price per pound, allowing us to give all that we purchase away for free. We are 100% donation funded, and work to find new and interesting ways to raise money to better our organization.