Local Missions
Serving the Greater Houston Community
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest parts of the earth." Acts 1:8
Through annual events such as Angels of Light and Serve Houston, and through various church-sponsored programs throughout the year, members of the Second Family reach out to the community to make a difference as we meet the needs of our neighbors. Visit this website regularly for information about opportunities to serve.
Local Missions Agencies
If you, your Bible Study class, or other group would like to participate in a short-term or long-term local mission project, contact one of the many mission agencies that Second Baptist recommends.A.D. Players
The A.D. Players is a long-running performing arts venue with a main stage, children’s theater & year round workshops.
An inclusive program called Arts for All
offers underserved students a platform to create,
express and perform under professional theatrical
instruction. Your gift will support this program.
Agape Development
Agape’s children and teen ministries bring hope and transformation to the youth of Houston’s Third Ward. The Backyard Bible Club provides a safe, after school alternative for unsupervised children. The Agape Shaved Ice Program helps middle and high school students develop entrepreneurial skills.
Your gift will
support program-related expenses.
Amanda Garner - Volunteer Coordinator
Amazing Place
Amazing Place provides fellowship, memory care and wellness for adults with mild to moderate memory loss and support to their families and the community.
Susia Howard - Volunteer Coordinator
Arrow Child & Family Ministries
Arrow Child & Family Ministries serves children rescued from abuse through foster care. Our residential programs provide those children with a temporary home-like environment where they can be evaluated, receive treatment, and prepare for a more permanent placement.
Leslie Roberson – Volunteer Coordinator
Beltway 8 South Crisis Pregnancy Center
This center provides free and confidential support services for those involved in unplanned pregnancies.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Jean Killough – Executive Director
Boys & Girls Country
Boys and Girls Country provides a home and loving care to children from families in crisis.
With more than 65 air conditioning units on campus,
replacement of these units is inevitable and
ongoing. Your gift will go toward the purchase
of new HVAC units throughout the campus.
Susan Breaux - Volunteer Coordinator
The Brookwood Community
Brookwood operates a 485-acre community in Brookshire for adults with special needs.
More than 40,000 guests visit Brookwood’s
Café and Store each year. A new Citizen-made
fudge enterprise would increase Brookwood’s
consumable products revenue. Your gift will go
toward remodeling the Gift Store and purchasing
fudge-making equipment.
Karen Pollard - Volunteer Coordinator
Buckner Family Hope Center – Aldine
Family Hope Centers seek to live out the Gospel and keep families together by providing them with critical services, aid and coaching so that they eventually break free from poverty.
Your gift will provide for a new air conditioning unit
as well as exterior siding for buildings at their
Aldine Family Hope Center.
Erin Ratcliffe - Volunteer Coordinator
Buckner Family Hope Center – Cornerstone
Family Hope Centers seek to live out the Gospel and keep families together by providing them with critical services, aid and coaching so that they eventually break free from poverty.
Erin Ratcliffe - Volunteer Coordinator
C.E.N.T.E.R. Ministries
This Christ-centered organization works with at-risk children in West Houston to equip them to meet life’s challenges through educational mentoring and life skills development.
Your gift will provide a nutritious hot meal twice per week
to 100 children in addition to purchasing family
Bibles to encourage a deep spiritual heritage.
Mark Trotter
Camp Blessing
This week-long Christian summer camp is designed for children and young adults with physical, developmental, and/or intellectual disabilities who are unable to participate in traditional camp activities.
Your gift will help purchase pontoon
paddle boats which will make it easier for the
campers with mobility challenges to use.
Emily Clodfelter - Volunteer Coordinator
Camp Hope
Camp Hope provides interim housing for Wounded Warriors suffering from PTSD. Veterans and their immediate family members benefit from an intensive peer support and mentoring program as well as a comprehensive PTSD recovery program.
Your gift will go toward
ministry needs.
Tracy Crane - Volunteer Coordinator
Care Net Pregnancy Center
Also known as Northwest Pregnancy Center, this agency serves women who are at risk for abortions in the Champions and Cypress areas of the city.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Jerrie Amos - Volunteer Coordinator
Christ Clinic
Christ Clinic offers high quality healthcare and health related services to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Michelle Shelton - Volunteer Coordinator
Cornerstone Family Ministries
This multi-cultural, faith-based organization serves low-income apartment complexes in the Spring Branch area.
Amanda Etheredge - Volunteer Coordinator
Covenant House
Covenant House Texas provides shelter for homeless, abused and abandoned youth ages 18-24.
Tiffany Salinas - Volunteer Coordinator
Cypress Assistance Ministries
Cypress Assistance Ministries serves individuals and families in financial crisis, those on the brink of homelessness, the elderly, the unemployed and anyone that needs hope for a better future.
Elizabeth Bustillos - Volunteer Coordinator
Elijah Rising
The mission of Elijah Rising is to end sex trafficking in the city of Houston through programs that focus on awareness, intervention, restoration and prayer.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Micah Gamboa - Volunteer Coordinator
Family Promise of Lake Houston
Family Promise of Lake Houston brings together service agencies and local volunteers to provide safe, temporary housing, meals and support services to homeless families.
Tiffany Venekamp - Volunteer Coordinator
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
The vision of FCA is to see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. This is pursued through the strategy of “to and through the coach” – ministry first to coaches’ hearts, marriages, and families then through coaches to their fellow coaches, teams, and athlete leaders.
Chris McInturff
Forgotten Angels
Forgotten Angels serves people living with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities by providing residential facilities, vocational opportunities and enrichment activities.
Jill Shockley - Volunteer Coordinator
Free the Captives
Free the Captives is a faith-based organization fighting sex trafficking of girls ages 12-14 years in Houston, They provide rescued victims with support groups, mentoring, jobs, material assistance, and other direct services.
Your gift
will support ministry needs.
Freedom Alliance
The Alliance is a growing movement of churches united to fight human trafficking. A church united and empowered by the Spirit, working alongside and strengthening anti-trafficking organizations, can transform our city.
Your gift will support
ministry needs.
Allison Sims - Development & Operations Manager
Generation One
Generation One is committed to the spiritual growth and physical rebuilding of the impoverished areas of the Third Ward.
Your gift will go toward purchasing new cafeteria equipment.
Brandi Lightfoot - Volunteer Coordinator
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill provides training, skills development and work opportunities for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
Each year, Goodwill partners with our church to
provide clothing certificates to the children and
families who come to our Angels of Light Christmas
program. Your gift will support our partnership.
Julie Copeland - Volunteer Coordinator
Gospel Lakes Ranch
Day camp for local churches and inner-city kids. Our goal is to evangelize children with the gospel and disciple them in the word of God.
Your gift will go toward completing the Chapel
project with a Prayer Garden and landscaping.
Bennie Hasha - Executive Director
Gracewood
Gracewood is a transitional housing and family-care program that exists to strengthen single-parent families at risk for homelessness.
A new Family Life Center will be completed this fall that
will house program offices and a counseling
center. Your gift will go toward providing
furnishings including a technology lab.
Kristy Wright - Volunteer Coordinator
Hope for Youth
Hope for Youth reaches at-risk, urban teenagers. Jesus ‘n the Hood is a week-long summer program designed to expose youth to the Gospel through relevant and engaging speakers, musicians and activities.
They offer the College and Career
Prep (CCP) program to students in early high
school. Your gift will provide for the CCP program.
Marcus Allen - Volunteer Coordinator
Houston Food Bank
More than 1 million people in the 18 southeast Texas counties served by Houston Food Bank are considered food insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to enough nutritious food to fuel a healthy life. In order to address this issue, the Houston Food Bank distributes food and other essentials to those in need through a network of 1,600 community partners. In addition, we also provide programs and services aimed at helping families achieve long-term stability including nutrition education, job training, health management, and help in securing state-funded assistance.
Your gift will go toward
ministry needs.
Kathy Lipman
Houston Furniture Bank
The Houston Furniture Bank’s mission is to furnish hope by making empty houses homes.
Houston Pregnancy Help Centers
Houston Pregnancy Help Centers provide practical and compassionate support to women in unplanned pregnancy situations via their Fifth Ward and Downtown locations as well as their medical mobile van.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Sandra Ontiveros - Volunteer Coordinator
Katy Christian Ministries
Katy Christian Ministries helps local families and individuals fight poverty, food insecurity, domestic violence and sexual assault through their Social Services programs, their Crisis Center, their Food Pantry and Community Garden, and their Resale Store.
Your gift will go toward software upgrades.
Diana Miller - Volunteer Coordinator
Kids’ Meals
Kids’ Meals delivers free healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children.
Your gift will go toward the purchase of a forklift
to be used in the warehouse areas where food
and program supplies are stored.
Monique Saldana - Volunteer Coordinator
LifeHouse of Houston
LifeHouse is a Christian maternity home in southwest Houston that offers women cost-free lodging, meals, pre-natal care, life skills training, counseling, access to work/school, and God’s overwhelming love. The women are cared for until the baby arrives or they secure alternate living arrangements.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Hayley Kosel - Volunteer Coordinator
Loving Kids
Loving Kids is a collaborative community outreach meeting the physical, mental and spiritual needs of the Acres Homes communities. LovingKids volunteers from the sponsoring churches provide school day tutoring and mentoring as well as periodic service projects including school supplies, landscaping, and other support.
Your gift will help upgrade
and continue these vibrant programs.
Perry Elders
Miracle Farm
Miracle Farm is a working ranch in rural Washington County that provides a safe environment for boys.
The dining hall is a large,
inviting space where Miracle Farm boys and
staff gather for meals, family training weekends,
and other special events. Your gift will help with
needed renovations to the dining hall.
Chris Welch - Volunteer Coordinator
Mission Centers of Houston
Mission Centers of Houston serves over 37,000 people per year through their food pantry and provides programs for school kids, youth clubs and senior citizens.
Cheryl Chadwick - Volunteer Coordinator
Mission Northeast
Mission Northeast provides food, clothing, and household items to more than 25,000 people who are working to break the cycle of poverty in their lives.
Your gift will provide for a control-operated
security gate.
Joe Faulk - Volunteer Coordinator
Mission of Yahweh
The Mission of Yahweh offers shelter and many life-changing programs focused on ending the cycle of homelessness and dependency.
A new dormitory is needed on campus to provide permanent supportive housing for 40 women and children. Your gift will go toward building the new dormitory.
Courtney Khorrami - Volunteer Coordinator
Neighborhood Kidz Club
Neighborhood Kidz Club serves the residents of 9 apartment complexes and mobile home communities by addressing practical, spiritual, academic and social needs.
Your gift will facilitate major maintenance
upgrades to three ministry trailers.
Beth Barber - Volunteer Coordinator
Northwest Assistance Ministries
NAM provides assistance in food, shelter, healthcare, education, safety and financial education needs.
Samantha Ancia - Volunteer Coordinator
Open Door Mission
This faith and evidence-based recovery and rehabilitation program and facility is dedicated to transforming the lives of the most severely addicted, destitute, homeless and disabled men in our community.
Your gift will purchase two HVAC condensing units in campus dormitories as well as provide for multiple kitchen updates.
Bill White - Ministries Coordinator
Pregnancy Help Center of West Houston
Pregnancy Help Center of West Houston provides free and confidential care for those facing crisis and unplanned pregnancies.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Dina Purdy - Volunteer Coordinator
Project C.U.R.E.
Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world.
Judy Torrance - Volunteer Coordinator
Rebuilding Together Houston
Rebuilding Together Houston enlists community volunteers and licensed contractors to repair the homes of low-income elderly, U.S. Military Veterans, and working families in need. With more than 14,650 neighbors served, we have averaged one family helped per day, each day for 40 years.
Your gift will be used
for ministry needs.
Lenny Difranza - Volunteer Coordinator
Redeemed Ministries
Redeemed provides a restoration house that provides specialized, long-term care for human trafficking victims.
Dennis Mark
Rescue America (Houston)
Rescue Houston empowers victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation to exit the sex trade via a 24/7 hotline and exit program.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Lori Hartman - Volunteer Coordinator
Salvation Army – Adult Rehab Center
The Adult Rehabilitation Center repairs broken lives of men addicted to alcohol and drugs through a program that includes work therapy, recreation, worship, healthcare, education and counseling, both individual and group.
Salvation Army – Center of Hope
Center of Hope is designed to provide food and emergency or transitional housing to people in need.
Volunteers call area command: 713-752-0677
Salvation Army – Jones Residence
The Family Residence provides a place of safety and healing for women and children, many of whom are victims of domestic violence, crime and generational poverty.
Shirah Villegas - Executive Director
SEARCH
SEARCH helps individual and families move from the streets into jobs and safe, stable homes.
Thao Costis - Volunteer Coordinator
SpringSpirit
SpringSpirit’s 2 locations serves 600 children and their families who live in unsafe, high-density apartment complexes in the Spring Branch area.
In order to enhance
ongoing literacy programs, classrooms will
need to be equipped with projector screens
and WiFi. Your gift will provide for these updates
and purchases.
Juan Ramirez - Volunteer Coordinator - Pitner | Ana Mendoza – Volunteer Coordinator - Campbell
Star of Hope – Doris and Carloss Morris Men’s Development Center
The Star of Hope Men’s Development Center serves more than 360 men each night in the downtown area.
Your gift will provide for needed repairs
and for updating the computer lab located at the
Men’s Development Center.
Altonette Terrance - Volunteer Coordinator
Star of Hope – Women & Family Development Center Cornerstone Community
Star of Hope Women and Family Development Center provides programs to help residents break the generational cycle of abuse, neglect and addiction that traps so many single women and families.
Altonette Terrance - Volunteer Coordinator
Stoney Creek Ranch
Stoney Creek is a non-denominational Christian camp located in New Ulm, Texas.
Your gift will provide
for pickleball courts located on a new property
recently purchased to provide for the needs of
older campers and for future growth.
Chelsi Shoup - Volunteer Coordinator
The FORGE for Families
FORGE ministers to members of the local community by sharing the Gospel, closing gaps in education, and strengthening family units.
Your gift will provide for an awning
that covers the outside walkway from the gym
to the after-school building.
Beth Williams Lee - Volunteer Coordinator
The Source
The Source for Women offers a wide range of free reproductive health care services to women and their families from two locations: Spring Branch and the Medical Center.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Stella Innes - Volunteer Coordinator
Tomball Pregnancy Center
This non-profit medical clinic offers support for pregnancy related issues and reproductive health education.
Your gift will be used for ministry needs.
Vosswood Nursing Home
Vosswood Nursing Home offers residents the ability to enjoy the lifestyle that they are accustomed to while providing levels of care appropriate to their needs.
Nancy Lyles - Volunteer Coordinator
West Houston Assistance Ministries
WHAM helps families in crisis by providing them with food, clothing, employment services and financial help.
Your gift will provide for painting of the facility.
Matthew Herrera - Volunteer Coordinator
WorkFaith Connection
This ministry equips disadvantaged job seekers with the necessary skills to conduct succesful job searches, despite barriers such as criminal backgrounds, addiction, homelessness, and unstable life patterns.
Robin Scott - Volunteer Coordinator
Yellowstone Academy
Yellowstone Academy provides a high-quality Christian education to inner city students in the Third Ward.
A new building is to be completed this
year, and updated technology infrastructure is
imperative. Your gift will provide for these needed
IT upgrades.
Maricela Ramos - Volunteer Coordinator
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