About Fast58

A question that
kept coming back.

Tony has been working in faith and community for 25 years. Fast58 is where that work eventually led him.

For decades Tony worked alongside churches and communities, locally and internationally, strengthening outreach and helping local leaders build something that would last after he left. The same question kept coming up regardless of context or country.

What if fasting was not just personal?
What if it was meant to produce something in the world around you?

Fast58 is where that question eventually landed.

Tony Cardillo speaking with a community group

The Founder

How a builder
ended up here.

I have been in the construction industry my whole working life. I am not a trained minister. I did not set out to start a movement.

What I had was a conviction that would not leave me alone. I carried it for years before I did anything about it.

The church has real capacity. It wants to serve. But most of the giving structures we rely on draw from the same well (tithes, offerings, fundraising campaigns). All of it comes from income people have already allocated.

What I could not let go of was a different source entirely. Money people were going to spend on food anyway. What if we could redirect that?

Fast58 is what happened when I stopped thinking and started building.

"Compassion should strengthen local leadership, not create dependency."

Tony Cardillo, Founder

The Foundation

It is called Fast58
for a reason.

The name was chosen to keep pointing people back to that chapter. Every time someone says Fast58, they are saying Isaiah 58, and that is the point.

God is not vague about the fast he wants. He names it: feed the hungry, clothe the poor, care for the people around you. And then he attaches promises to that kind of fasting, something I missed the first time I read it. Healing. His presence. Restoring what has been broken.

The model is practical. The roots go deeper than the maths.

Why the Name Fast58?

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry?"

Isaiah 58:6–7, NIV

The name Fast58 was chosen deliberately. It points straight back to Isaiah 58, one of the most direct passages in scripture about what God is asking for when we fast. Not self-denial for its own sake. A fast that produces something in the world.

The Vision

Built to run
without me.

From the beginning I wanted a movement that did not depend on me to keep going. I speak at churches and communities. I am glad to do it. But the idea is bigger than what I can reach on my own, and it was always meant to be.

I tried to build a framework clear enough that any leader can pick it up and run it without calling me first. The guide does most of the work. The model is simple enough to travel.

Communities that have run it come back for it. When a group does it together and sees what comes out of it, the second time is easier. It builds its own momentum.

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Isaiah 58

The promises behind the movement.

01

Healing and restoration

The word I keep coming back to is restored. Not improved. Not gradually getting better. Restored. As if something that was broken can actually be made whole again.

"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear."Isaiah 58:8, NIV

02

God's presence close

There is something in the specific wording here that I find hard to move past. Not that God will hear you eventually, or that your prayer will be considered. He answers. He says: here am I. The chapter ties that response directly to this kind of outward, generous fasting.

"Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."Isaiah 58:9, NIV

03

A name worth carrying

The chapter ends with an image that stayed with me long after I first read it. The people who live this way become known for what they rebuild. Not for what they talk about or what they believe in private. For what they repair.

"You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings."Isaiah 58:12, NIV

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