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The Gathering of Men

The Gathering of Men’s goal is to disciple men to a mature relationship in Jesus Christ through small group discipleship programs and large group gatherings. Your gift will go toward ministry needs.

SW Baptist Theological Seminary (Darrington Extension Unit)

A.D. Players

A.D. Players presents compelling theatre, from a Christian worldview, that engages a diverse audience. As the theater has grown, the need to improve technology infrastructure has become apparent. Your gift will go toward purchasing a new state-of-the-art lobby projector.

Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston enlists community volunteers and licensed contractors to repair the homes of low-income elderly, U.S. Military Veterans, homeowners with disabilities, and working families in need. Your gift will be used for ministry needs.

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, crisis center, food pantry, and resale store. Your gift will go toward implementing a new Volunteer Management Software Solution system.
281-391-5261
http://www.ktcm.org
diana.miller@ktcm.org

Diana Miller - Volunteer Coordinator

Hospitality Apartments

Hospitality Apartments provides free, temporary housing for families who are facing a healthcare crisis and who have a family member receiving treatment at the Texas Medical Center. Your gift will go toward replacement of the electric ranges in each of the 46 apartments.
713-790-9120
http://www.hospitalityapartments.org

Marcie Evans - 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.

The Brookwood Community

Brookwood operates a 485-acre community for adults with special needs. Horticulture, Brookwood’s largest enterprise, provides work for more than 100 Citizens who grow more than 200,000 plants annually. Your gift will go toward renovations of the main Horticulture building.

Mission Centers of Houston

Mission Centers of Houston serves over 18,000 people per year through their food pantry. About 200 meals are processed each week in the kitchen. Your gift will go toward the renovation of the kitchen at the Gano Mission Center.

A.D. Players

The A.D. Players is a long-running performing arts venue with a main stage, children’s theater & year round workshops. 
A.D. Players presents compelling theatre, from a Christian worldview, that engages a diverse audience. As the theater has grown, the need to improve technology infrastructure has become apparent. Your gift will go toward purchasing a new state-of-the-art lobby projector.

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.
Agape’s children and teen ministries bring hope and transformation to the youth of the Third Ward. Their teen program provides safe and enriching activities for middle and high school-age children and an opportunity to develop positive relationships with adults. 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. 

Susie 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. 
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. 
Boys and Girls Country provides a home and loving care to children of families in crisis. Many of the cottages are more than 40 years old and require constant upkeep to ensure that they are safe and functional. Your gift will go toward cottage repairs.

Susan Breaux - Volunteer Coordinator

The Brookwood Community

Brookwood operates a 485-acre community in Brookshire for adults with special needs. 
Brookwood operates a 485-acre community for adults with special needs. Horticulture, Brookwood’s largest enterprise, provides work for more than 100 Citizens who grow more than 200,000 plants annually. Your gift will go toward renovations of the main Horticulture building.

Tawana Goodwin - 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. 
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 go toward new plumbing for the children’s area at the Aldine Family Hope Center as well as sheetrock repair and painting at the Reed Road 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. 
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 go toward new plumbing for the children’s area at the Aldine Family Hope Center as well as sheetrock repair and painting at the Reed Road Family Hope Center

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. 
This Christ-centered organization works with at-risk children in West Houston. 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. 
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 a new mechanical lift for the Camp Blessing friends in wheelchairs.

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. 
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.

Christy Carbaugh - 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. 
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. 
Christ Clinic offers high-quality healthcare and health-related services to those who are uninsured or underinsured. Your gift will be used for ministry needs.

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. 
Elijah Rising’s mission 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.

Kanah Jones - 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. 
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. 
Churches United to End Human Trafficking in the Houston area collaborates with multiple anti-trafficking organizations to bring awareness to the community through events, seminars, and educational training. Your gift will support ministry needs.

Christa Freyhof - Development & Operations Manager

Generation One

Generation One is committed to the spiritual growth and physical rebuilding of the impoverished areas of the Third Ward. 
Working in the Third Ward, Generation One empowers children and families to thrive through high-quality early education, after-school programming, and family support. Your gift will go toward purchasing technology upgrades.

James Hammonds - 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. 
Gospel Lakes’ goal is to evangelize children with the gospel and disciple them in the Word of God through day camp for local churches and inner-city kids. Your gift will go toward purchasing a tractor and mower needed to keep the campgrounds maintained properly.

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. 
Gracewood is a transitional housing and family-care program that exists to strengthen single-parent families at risk for homelessness. Your gift will go toward replacing and upgrading appliances for one of the Cottages and garage apartments.

Jenny Snow - 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. 
Hope for Youth reaches at-risk urban youth with the love of Christ through Christian mentoring relationships. They offer the College and Career Prep (CCP) program to students in early high school who are usually going to be first generation college students. Your gift will provide for the CCP program.

Marcus Allen - Volunteer Coordinator

Hospitality Apartments

Hospitality Apartments provides free, temporary (2 weeks up to 3 months) housing for families who are facing a health-care crisis and who have a family member receiving treatment at the Texas Medical Center.
Hospitality Apartments provides free, temporary housing for families who are facing a healthcare crisis and who have a family member receiving treatment at the Texas Medical Center. Your gift will go toward replacement of the electric ranges in each of the 46 apartments.

Marcie Evans - 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. 
The Houston Food Bank provides food for better lives in 18 counties in southeast Texas through 1600 community partners. 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. 
Houston Pregnancy Help Centers provide practical and compassionate support to women facing unplanned pregnancies 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. 
Katy Christian Ministries helps local families and individuals fight poverty, food insecurity, domestic violence, and sexual assault through their social services programs, crisis center, food pantry, and resale store. Your gift will go toward implementing a new Volunteer Management Software Solution system.

Diana Miller - Volunteer Coordinator

Kids’ Meals

Kids’ Meals delivers free healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children. 
Kids’ Meals delivers free, healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children. Your gift will support the purchase and installation of A/C units for the rear cabins of their Meal Delivery Vans.

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. 
This Christian maternity home offers women cost-free lodging, meals, pre-natal care, life skills training, and counseling. The women are cared for until the baby arrives or until they secure alternative living arrangements. Your gift will be used for ministry needs.

Rebecca Brazelton - 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.
Loving Kids is a collaborative community outreach that helps meet the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of the Acres Homes communities through programs supporting five elementary schools. 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.  
Miracle Farm is a working ranch in rural Washington County that provides a safe environment for boys. The school building, built 24 years ago, needs new and durable flooring, fresh coats of paint, and window repairs. Your gift will help purchase new desks and bookshelves as well as go toward needed renovations to the school building.

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.  
Mission Centers of Houston serves over 18,000 people per year through their food pantry. About 200 meals are processed each week in the kitchen. Your gift will go toward the renovation of the kitchen at the Gano Mission Center.

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. 
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 go toward retrofitting their Ford F550 truck with a refrigerated box to ensure food safety in transport.

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.  
Through both its residential and community programming, the Mission of Yahweh has a goal to serve more than 400 homeless women and children through housing, basic needs, case management, supportive services, and tailored programming. Your gift will go toward the purchase and installation of six electric hand dryers, the purchase of a steam table for the commercial kitchen, and replacement of a privacy fence.

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. 
Neighborhood Kidz Club serves the residents of Western Pines, Garden Villa, Trinity Duval, and The Summit mobile home communities in Katy. Your gift will go toward the purchase, move, and installation of a new single-wide trailer at Western Pines to be used for ministry and office space.

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. 
This faith- and evidence-based recovery and rehabilitation program and facility is dedicated to transforming the lives of the addicted, destitute, homeless, and disabled men in our community. Your gift will go toward purchasing three HVAC condensing units and air handlers as well as kitchen roof repairs.

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. 
This agency 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. 

Laura Gibney - 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. 
Rebuilding Together Houston enlists community volunteers and licensed contractors to repair the homes of low-income elderly, U.S. Military Veterans, homeowners with disabilities, and working families in need. 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 America exists to rescue, revive and empower the sexually exploited through a 24/7 hotline and emergency response. 
Rescue America exists to rescue, revive and empower the sexually exploited through a 24/7 hotline and emergency response. 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

Sports Quest

This ministry shares biblical truth to reach, teach, and encourage the next generation leaders through soccer.
This ministry shares biblical truth to reach, teach, and encourage the next generation leaders through soccer. Your gift will help purchase four full-size soccer goals and Bibles for distribution to kids through the ministry.

Jim Spence

SpringSpirit

SpringSpirit’s 2 locations serves 600 children and their families who live in unsafe, high-density apartment complexes in the Spring Branch area.   
SpringSpirit weekly serves 600 children and their families who live in unsafe, high-density apartment complexes. Your gift will go toward netting and fence maintenance around the soccer fields at the Campbell Campus location.

Juan Ramirez - Volunteer Coordinator - Pitner | Ana Mendoza – Volunteer Coordinator - Campbell

Star of Hope

Star of Hope is a Christ-centered community dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men, women and their children.
This Christ-centered community is dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men at the Men’s Development Center, as well as women and their children at the Cornerstone Campus. Educational classrooms are paramount to programs and classes for their clients at the center. Your gift will provide for air conditioning for the educational wing at the Men’s Development Center.

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. 
This Christ-centered community is dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men at the Men’s Development Center, as well as women and their children at the Cornerstone Campus. Educational classrooms are paramount to programs and classes for their clients at the center. Your gift will provide for air conditioning for the educational wing 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. 
This Christ-centered community is dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men at the Men’s Development Center, as well as women and their children at the Cornerstone Campus. Educational classrooms are paramount to programs and classes for their clients at the center. Your gift will provide for air conditioning for the educational wing at the Men’s Development Center.

Altonette Terrance - Volunteer Coordinator

Stoney Creek Ranch

Stoney Creek is a non-denominational Christian camp located in New Ulm, Texas. 
Stoney Creek is a nondenominational Christian camp located in New Ulm, TX. Hillside, a camp perfectly designed for older teens and better suited to accommodate adult retreat visitors, will include six new cabins. Your gift will help provide cabin furniture for these cabins.

Chelsi Shoup - Volunteer Coordinator

SW Baptist Theological Seminary (Darrington Extension Unit)

The FORGE for Families

FORGE ministers to members of the local community by sharing the Gospel, closing gaps in education, and strengthening family units. 
The Forge for Families ministers to members of the local community by sharing the gospel, closing gaps in education, and strengthening family units. Your gift will go toward the purchase of a new van.

Beth Williams Lee - Volunteer Coordinator

The Gathering of Men

The Gathering of Men’s goal is to disciple men to a mature relationship in Jesus Christ through small group discipleship programs and large group gatherings.
The Gathering of Men’s goal is to disciple men to a mature relationship in Jesus Christ through small group discipleship programs and large group gatherings. Your gift will go toward ministry needs.

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. 
The Source offers 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.

Hannah Neathery - Volunteer Coordinator

Tomball Pregnancy Center

This non-profit medical clinic offers support for pregnancy related issues and reproductive health education. 
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. 
West Houston Assistance Ministries helps families in crisis by providing them with food, clothing, employment services, and financial help. Your gift will provide for office building maintenance and exterior paintwork.

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. 

Chelsea Cantrell - Volunteer Coordinator

Yellowstone Academy

Yellowstone Academy provides a high-quality Christian education to inner city students in the Third Ward. 
Yellowstone Academy provides a high-quality Christian education to inner city students in the Third Ward. A reading nook inside the new library to include seating, shelving, partitions, and specific books is planned. Your gift will go toward the reading nook and related resources.

Maricela Ramos - Volunteer Coordinator