In loving memory of Eduardo Gutierrez
The Good Race Foundation carries the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not yet met Him — and carries real, practical help to families walking through cancer and crisis.
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“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
2 Timothy 4:7
Our threefold mission
We bring the good news of Jesus Christ to non-believers and to those who have yet to have a true encounter with Him and the Holy Spirit — in hospital rooms, at kitchen tables, and out on the road.
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel.” — Mark 16:15
Cancer costs more than treatment. We help individuals and families carrying the weight of diagnosis, chemotherapy, travel, lost wages, and grief — the burdens our own family knows by name.
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.” — Psalm 34:18
We join hands with other nonprofits and ministries to reach people in crisis — because a partnership multiplies what one foundation alone could carry.
“Bear one another's burdens.” — Galatians 6:2
Aid is given wherever it will impact the most lives — no program is too small if it carries a family through the week.
Why we run
In 2023 Eduardo Gutierrez was diagnosed with stage 4 renal carcinoma. He fought faithfully — through scans and treatments and long nights — until the spring of 2024, when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ called him home to rest.
His sister, Lizbeth Chase, founded The Good Race Foundation so that no family would face the toughest moments of their lives without the Gospel, without groceries, and without someone to sit beside them.
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About the foundation
The Good Race Foundation was founded on a simple conviction: the Gospel and a full refrigerator can arrive on the same afternoon.
In memoriam · 2024
Eduardo was the kind of brother who noticed. He noticed when you were quiet at dinner, when your car was making a sound, when someone in the room had nobody to talk to. Long before there was a foundation, there was a man who paid attention to people other people overlooked.
The diagnosis came as stage 4 renal carcinoma. There is no gentle way to write that sentence, and there was no gentle way to hear it. What followed were the months our family will never fully be able to describe to anyone who has not lived them: the scans, the treatment cycles, the waiting rooms with the same magazines, the drives home when nobody said anything at all.
And yet — Eduardo fought faithfully. Not quietly, not without fear, but faithfully. He prayed when it hurt. He asked about other people's days from a hospital bed. He kept his eyes on Jesus when his body was failing, and he made believers out of people who came to comfort him and left comforted instead.
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10
In the spring of 2024, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ called Eduardo to rest. He did not lose. He finished. He fought the good fight, he finished the race, and he kept the faith — and the name of this foundation is the sentence we say over his life.
What our family learned in those months is that suffering has a second layer nobody warns you about. There is the illness, and then there is everything around the illness: the gas money, the missed shifts, the rent that comes due anyway, the meals nobody has the strength to cook, the loneliness of a diagnosis that empties a calendar. Church folks brought casseroles and we wept over them. Small kindnesses were not small.
The Good Race Foundation exists so those kindnesses arrive on purpose, and arrive with the name of Jesus attached to them.
Our founder
Lizbeth is Eduardo's sister. She sat in the chairs, filled out the forms, learned the vocabulary of a disease she never asked to study, and held her brother's hand at the end of his race. She founded The Good Race Foundation in 2024 so that the help her family received by grace could be given away on purpose.
“I cannot give Eduardo back to my family,” she says. “I can make sure another family is not alone in the worst week of their life — and that they hear who Jesus is while we are there.”
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A partnership multiplies what one foundation could carry alone. These are the churches, nonprofits, and businesses standing with us to bring aid and the Gospel to families in crisis.
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Crisis partnership · Sudan
Through our partnership with the Persecution Project Foundation, gifts designated for Sudan carry food, medical care, shelter, and the Gospel to families displaced by war and persecution.
“Remember those in prison, as though in prison with them.” — Hebrews 13:3
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