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Provide a safe, sober living environment for women. A safe haven where they can focus on their recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and abusive lifestyles. A place where they are given the oportunity to once again, become productive members of this community. Providing a bridge from where they were to where they want to go in their lives.

Angels Charge Ministry offers a transitional housing ministry, case management, and advocacy to deter recidivism and to facilitate a healthy and productive reentry into our community for women during and after incarceration.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Mission Statement is the following: "Sharing Hope...Changing Lives." Vision statement is the following: "To provide the highest quality of Christian services to children, adults and families in a caring culture of measurable excellence."

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Our organization began in 1885. We are many ministries beating with one heart. The heart of Baptist Children's Homes beats with the hope of Jesus Christ--a hope that extends to the children, families and adults this ministry is privileged to serve. Today we are located in 36 communities across North Carolina, South Carolina and Guatemala. While our ministry and mission began with the care of orphans, we have broadened our programs. We include services for children and families dealing with issues of abuse, neglect, abandonment, those in crisis and transition. We also offer group homes and provide services for intellectual and developmentally disabled adults. In South Carolina we offer Christian adoption services statewide.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose:

Boots on the Ground to combat the barriers that ourMilitary Community, their Families and Veterans face - Serving one Hero, one Family, one BootPrint ata time

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities:

BootPrint is a 501(c)3 non-profit organizationlocated in South Carolina where the wellbeing of our Military Community is at the forefront of ourmission. Our programs, projects and activities are designed to take a holistic approach of mind, bodyand spirit and be a catalyst that unite our community resources to eliminate the barriers that anyMilitary Member, their Family and our Veterans face so they can reach their goals and fulfill theirpotential.

Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide education, resources and innovative solutions to promote awareness, connection and inclusion of people with disabilities in their communities.

Brief Description of Our Organization's Activities: 

Disability Awareness Day/Week - We offer this to private Christian schools for grades K-12. Disability Awareness Day/Week is an opportunity for staff and students to learn about disability and use Scripture as a guide for developing a new perspective on how to include people with disabilities in their schools, churches, and communities.

Connection Through Christ - We offer a leadership development program for students in grades 4th-8th. This after school program uses the Bible and Jesus’ ministry as a guide to learn about leadership and disability. Each week, students are challenged to grow in their faith, develop leadership skills and use what they are learning to impact their schools, churches and communities.

Teacher Training - We offer DSS certified professional development training for teachers in private Christian schools. Teachers learn about disability, the value of inclusion of students with disabilities and are equipped with tools and strategies to create disability-inclusive and accessible classrooms and schools.

Parent Training and Support - We offer training and support for parents of children with disabilities. Our training provides parents with tools and strategies for raising a child with a disability. We also provided one-on-one support for parents navigating the challenges of raising a child with a disability.

Manner in which our organization shares the Gospel of Jesus Christ:

Our school-based programs and trainings are rooted in Scripture. We approach teaching about disability through two main ideas:

     1. people with and without disabilties need access to the Gospel and church, and

     2. people with and without disabilities are valuable, invited and have a God-given purpose.

Surprisingly, many believers are unaware of what Scripture says about disabilitiy and the number of stories of people with disabilities in the Bible. We challenge students and staff alike to explore both the Old and New Testaments to develop a disability theology. Through our programs and trainings, students and staff begin to recognize that a careful study of disabiliity in Scripture reveals that people with disabilities are valuable, invited and have a God-given purpose. This truth leads to additional discussion of how our modern day churches, schools and communities can be more accessible to people with disabilities so they can have access to the good news of the Gospel and be part of their local church, school and community.

To provide specialized outdoor experiences that encouragegrowth in faith, including a deeper relationship with Christ and others in the environment of summercamps, retreats, and adventure programs.

Camp Canaan is a non-profit 501c3 establishedin 2004. Our primary service to families is through our programs, which include: summer camps,retreats, and adventures. Additionally, we offer financial relief for families by providing scholarships forchildren to attend our summer camp. Our summer camp program includes Resident Camp, Day Camp,and Teen Leadership Camps.

We do worship anddevotions with the campers each day and do a Gospel presentation at the end of the week. Inaddition, in our resident camp, we bring in local Pastors or Youth Ministers to share the Gospel in theevenings each week of camp.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Carol’s Hope was founded in 2014 to provide financial assistance and emotional support to as many families as possible who are battling childhood cancer.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Carol's Hope for Childhood Cancer, Inc (CHFCC) is a registered 501(3)(c) non profit organization that raises money to help families that are battling and dealing with hardships of childhood cancer. It was founded by Carol Moeller in 2014. The majority of the funds are raised by operating four thrift stores located in Boiling Springs, Spartanburg, Easley, and Taylors, SC. Other sources of revenue are raised via fundraising events and activities, as well as traditional corporate and individual monetary solicitations. Future plans for CHFCC are to open more thrift stores throughout the upstate of South Carolina, and beyond possibly, and increase overall fundraising initiatives. CHFCC is surrounded by dedicated and compassionate employees and volunteers that have a passion for helping these cancer children and their families. A complete formal business plan deatiling the growth, expansion, and vision of CHFCC and its cause is available upon request.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ: Carol Moeller, Founder & Executive Director of CHFCC was reading the book " A Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren in 2014 when she had an epiphany and enlightenment to become more proactive in sharing the gospel and good word of Jesus Christ. At the time she had a good friend whose child had recently been diagnosed with cancer. She saw firsthand the hardships this created for her friends family. Ordinary life suddenly became unordinary for her friend's family due to the financial impacts of cancer and also the emotional strain it inflicted on all members of the family. She decided to take action and do something about it. These two things, the book she was reading and her friends' life altering siuation, inspired her to do something good and positive in the world. CHFCC was born. A selfless act to help others in their time of need. From then on she has, and continues, to share the gospel of Jesus Christ through her and her organizations acts of selflessness. CHFCC has helped numerous families by providing financial and emotional support to help them better cope with the hardships and uncertainties of dealing with a child that has cancer. Her acts of selflessness is her way of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oftentimes we worry about ourselves and our wants rather than wanting to give our time and help to others. Jesus taught us to humble ourselves and put others before oneself. As believers we must try to be a reflection of Jesus. Selflessness results in sacrificing for others and having more love for others, especially those ones in need. Carol Moeller and CHFCC spreads the word of gospel by sharing love for others and demonstrating sacrifice and selflessness for so many others to see. CHFCC is a shining star that represents teh gospel of Jesus Christ through its actions and its ministry.

A faith-based, 9-month transitional housing/shelter program for women in recovery and homeless women.  While at the Center women will receive addiction recovery assistance(as needed), employment and education for increasing job skills, and classes teaching various life-skills to become economically self-sufficient.  We provide a safe, loving place to heal and grown emotionally and spiritually.

Child Evangelism Fellowship is a Bible-centered organization composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.

During the school year, CEF partners with local churches to conduct Good News Clubs at public elementary schools where the Gospel can be shared with the children. CEF provides training, materials and support for the volunteers. Good News Clubs are exciting, fun-filled weekly clubs which the Bible is clearly taught with songs, stories, games and includes: Dynamic Bible Lessons, Creative Learning Activities, Inspiring Missionary Stories, Meaningful Songs and Life-changing Scripture Memory.

Young people, ages 15 and up, are specially trained to reach children with the Gospel through 5-Day Clubs which are held during the summer months. CEF of SC conducts a week long Christian Youth in Action(r) Training School to equip youth to reach children. Teens from across South Carolina come together to be taught how to lead a child to Christ, to teach Memory Verses and Bible Lessons and to counsel children for salvation. 

Chosen Children Ministries seeks to make Christ know and bring Life-Transformation to men, women, and children in Nicaragua. Our primary focus is church planting. We currently have 26 churches in Nicaragua where we serve families who live on about $2/day. We mobilize mission teams from all over the U.S. to provide evangelism, discipleship, homes, latrines, nutrition programs, education, business development, a 3-year Bible Institute, freshwater wells, medical care, child sponsorship, and more. When mission teams are not present, our staff of over 50 in Nicaragua continues the ministry.

darrell@ccm.life

Serving families and birth mothers in NC and SC. For over 40 years we have existed to minister to birth mothers and adoptive families and we have placed over 2,000 children into loving, Christian homes.

We are Larry and Cathy Lawrence. We lost our 14 year old son Christopher to suicide on January 22, 2019. Shortly after our tragedy, we determined we would do everything in our power to help other parents and their children to not have to experience what we went through, and began a search to find a way to help.

Our search led us to Hope Squads, founded by Dr. Greg Hudnall, in Provo, Utah. Hope Squads are groups of students in a school, nominated by their peers as someone they could go to if they had a problem. Hope Squads are not trained as counselors, but become the eyes and ears of the school, looking for at risk youth due to bullying, failing grades, lonliness, signs of self-harm or suicide. They then direct the student to a counselor or mental health person.

Learn more about Hope Squads from these Youtube videos: Hope Squads NBC, or Hope Squads White Board Video; Or, visit Hopesquads.com

Our website is ChristophersHope.org

Our vision is to have Hope Squads in every middle and high school in South Carolina. We are beginning with two schools in the Boiling Springs area. Each school must have at least one Advisor, usually a school counselor, mental health person, or a teacher.

We are very excited to report that on October 9, 2020, we held an Advisor Training at High Point Academy, where 9 Advisors were trained for HPA and Boiling Springs Middle School. Both schools will begin Hope Squads this year.

Hope Squads have been shown to change the atmosphere of a school, and destigmatize the discussion of mental health, as well as saving lives.

Latest update, is that we will have at least 5 more schools beginning Hope Squads for the 2021-22 school year. Four are in District 2 of Spartanburg County, and one is in Greenville County.

Provide counseling services and discipleship programs based on biblical values to the people of the Upstate of South Carolina. The center provides training to lay counselors and pastors in an effort to equip others to counsel, encourage and share in another's burdens. Faith-based counseling is the foundation from which all is taught.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: We are a faith-based charitable organization that educates, empowers and encourages individuals, in a Christ-centered environment, to develop their dream into their destiny. Our primary focus is healing and restoration for those who have experienced human and sex trafficking.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: A resale store in downtown Clover to help build resources for our 12 month residential program, helping those rescued from human trafficking.

Divinity Care Facility (DCF) is a non-profit 501c3 emergency shelter for adult men. DCF was established in 1996 by Richard Johnson and some other community volunteers to help those in the impoverished community. In the last 16 years the shelter has improved greatly by, obtaining a Board of Directors that meets on a regular basis, increased its sponsors, networking with other non-profit organizations in the community, receiving grants from various organizations (The United Way of the Piedmont, The South Carolina Christian Foundation, FEMA, Spartanburg Regional Foundation etc.) as well as donations from public and private citizens to continue the service of this facility. Divinity Care Facility provides shelter for up to 17 (capacity) males per night and more during the winter (due to state laws any temperature under 40 degrees a shelter may go past capacity). DCF provides 3 meals a day and snacks and drinks laid out through out the day for the residents. We provide clothes for the client and if there are not any available in our donations, the client will receive a voucher to the Salvation Army to take care of their clothing needs. DCF also has a no Substance Abuse Policy and if the client needs, we will refer that client to SADAC. Also, transportation is provided on an as need basis for outside doctors appointments, as well as, transportation to look for employment or to their place of employment again on an as needed basis. DCF will also try to assist the client with medications needed, if not we refer the client to an organization that can assist them in this process. Divinity Care Facility also provides Life Skills classes along with individual and group counseling to help the resident become a self sufficient productive member in society.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: The Dream Center exists to encourage, educate, and empower people in need through the love of Jesus Christ.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Free Classes- The Dream Center offers hope and empowerment through education by providing free classes to the public. Class topics include parenting, budgeting, health, Bible study, and more. When someone attends class, they earn a Dream Dollar which is worth $8. People are able to use Dream Dollars to purchase personal hygiene products from the General Store, wash a dry a load of laundry, take a shower, or can be used in any four of our Resale Stores (Greenville, Pickens, Easley, and Seneca).
Crisis Intervention- Intake Specialists are available to meet with people in need to determine an action plan that best fits their crisis situation. We offer food boxes, showers, store vouchers, and a change of clothing when appropriate in emergency situations. Other resources are also available for finding employment and housing.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: The mission of the Emerson Rose Heart Foundation is to change the future of those affected by Congenital Heart Defects as we share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Support Families
We provide opportunities for Community, Education, Spiritual and Emotional Support, and Financial Support during times of crisis for children and their families who are battling Congenital Heart Defects in our state and internationally. Many heart families feel alone and overwhelmed when receiving an unexpected diagnosis. We sponsor events, offer grief and trauma support, and introduce families to support groups where they can find a community of support.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Everyday Theologians exists to equip Christians (specifically women) with the tools, support, and resources necessary for in-depth Bible study. We serve the everyday person, those preparing for ministry work, and ministry leaders.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Providing training to eradicate biblical illiteracy amongst evangelical women everywhere through online and in person training and cohorts.

FACES of Total Victory is a non-profit, non-denominational ministry designed to make a difference in the lives of Female Athletes and Coaches Engaged in Sports. Through personal relationships with the coaches and athletes and surveys taken during our team Bible Studies, we identify issues and struggles they are facing and meet those needs in an uplifting and safe environment.

OUR VISION is to see Female Athletes and Coaches Engaged in Sports experience total victory in every area of their lives. “Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57                                                        

OUR MISSION is to equip female coaches and athletes emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually by providing specific events and resources designed to meet those needs.

FACES of Total Victory is led by women who have a diverse and extensive background in women’s sports and a passion to see athletes and coaches experience this victory in all areas of their lives. The ministry is based on the model of Jesus in His ministry to women: Jesus valued women, always had a purpose, wanted to please the Father, spent time preparing for His ministry, loved and sought out non-believers and spent time with them, listened to their needs, and met immediate needs before beginning to address their spiritual needs in ways specific to each person.

FACES of Total Victory is designed to Educate, Encourage, Motivate, and Inspire. We achieve this goal by focusing on three main types of events:

We plan and provide Large Conferences for female athletes and coaches in three separate age divisions; Elementary School, Middle and High School, and College. These include age-appropriate breakout sessions led by professionals on topics including Self Esteem, Identity and Value, Social Media, Bullying, Peer Pressure, Anxiety, Depression, Suicide, Human Trafficking, Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Life After Sports. Our conference ends with a motivating and inspirational challenge from nationally recognized women in the sports world.

We provide Luncheons, Events, and Retreats specifically for female coaches to encourage and equip them as they lead and influence the girls they coach. This includes a “Moms Who Coach” support group.

We provide and lead Team Dynamics Development for individual teams, meeting with them and using biblical principles and resources to guide and encourage the teams.

We are very excited to be in the process of publishing the FACES of Total Victory Devotional Bible to give to all who participate in these events. This will be the first Devotional Bible with content included specifically for female athletes and coaches, as all the devotions are being written by women who competed at the professional, Olympic, or collegiate level. This will be a huge resource for the ministry, putting God’s word in the hands of literally thousands of girls and women.

Feb 3 2024

Flourish Adoptions was recently rebranded from Quiver Full Adoptions - same agency/EIN/etc., just a new name + look! Would it be possible to remove the Quiver Full Adoptions profile at this time? 

Becca Wise 
Outreach Coordinator
Flourish Adoption Ministries, INC
www.flourishadoptions.com
864.373.9644

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Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Flourish Adoption Ministries (FAM) is a Greenville-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to build families as God designed, to offer affordable adoptions with integrity, and to provide support in a way that honors everyone. Our agency always works to put God first, serve our people with a ministry mindset, and operate with integrity.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Flourish Adoption Ministries serves families, both adoptive and biological, through domestic infant adoption, embryo adoption, and birth mother support (ARROW program). FAM is committed to being a different kind of adoption agency by providing lifetime counseling for biological mothers, education for hopeful adoptive families, and compassionate care for our adoptees.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities:

We ignite churches and communities to raise up foster, adoptive, and kinship families and equip them with the resources and connections they need to successfully parent the child/children in their care.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ:

When a child enters care into a believing foster, adoptive, or kinship family, they are able to see the love of God being modeled firsthand. When that family has its church family circling around them, they are then able to reinforce the love of Jesus. One of the natural and organic relationships that follow is that the child in care comes to faith in Jesus. This is our prayer in faith, that what we are doing to take in the children of the state is giving them a forever eternal inheritance through these two avenues - a forever family and a relationship with Jesus. This will directly impact the next generation (homelessness, incarceration, and sex trafficked souls) as the church and its people arise. A relationship with Jesus is our motivating endeavor behind all that we do.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Project Crohn's is a ministry serving young adults in chronic pain from Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: We do this by offering 1-1 personal mentoring, mental health counseling, and financial advising.

Spartanburg Ministries exists to provide emergency assistance to residents of Spartanburg County. The primary ministries of GSM are emergency food and evangelism. Other ministries include prison chaplain, clothing, seasonal utility assistance, rent assistance, thrift store,and emergency furnishings for residents who've lost their homes due to fire.

H.O.P.E. Ministries of the Upstate is a non-profit Christian ministry that works with disenfranchised individuals to guide them through a process of discipleship training, recovery from life's hurts, habits and hang-ups and re-integrating into the community as a productive Christian citizen. We are partnered with local community organizations and provide to our clients a six-month comprehensive discipleship training and study and twelve step Christ-centered recovery program based on the eight Beatitude principles and teachings of Jesus Christ. We also have a Phase II program which is a discipleship house for the graduates of our Phase I program. In the house, we teach money management, Christian values and life skills. Our goal for the men in six-months to a year, is to save from $2500 - $3000, so that when they move out, they will not be in the red, but in the green. Many of our clients are former addicts, homeless or in need of shelter and/or counciling. We have helped people in the past who have been in prison, homeless, came out of foster care and broken families.

Mission: To show God's love through serving those in need by repairing homes, assisting with youth development, and empowering communities to care for their own.

Homes of Hope opens doors for economic mobility through housing, economic, and workforce development.

Our vision at Homes of Hope is to provide opportunities for generational change throughout South Carolina. Homes of Hope began in 1988 with the dream to provide low-income families with housing they could both afford and be proud to call home. Simultaneously, another idea deveoped: to restore men's lives throug sobriety and job training as they acquired life-changing skills while hleping to fulfill our affordable housing mission.

The mission is to rebuild communities and individual lives throug housing, economic development, and workforce development.

Hope Remains Youth Ranch is a Christian based behavioral health ministry that uses God's Word and horses to break down the walls of trauma. 

Mission Statement : Hope Remains Ranch exists to provide a Christ-centered environment of hope and healing for children, adults and families in our community by utilizing equine therapy, Biblically-based professional counseling, and mentorship in life skills. 

Vision Statement: To see every person inspired to follow Christ, healed from the past, equipped to begin a new life and have hope for the future.

Programs offered for the community include: See website for extensive details

1) The Mane Event - a free mentoring program for ages 5-17.

2) Stable Care - a free parenting/guardian support group. 

3) Healing Hooves - Biblically-based professional counseling for ages 5 and above. 

4) Marvelous Mini's - an experiential educational program that travels with miniature horses to schools, churches, organizations and ministries within the community.

5) Horse Business - corporate team building opportunities for businesses, ministries and churches. 

6) Horse Fun - summer camp/field trips for ages 5-12.

Impact Sports is an interdenominational ministry whose mission is to use sports to take the Gospel to places it's never been, is not allowed, or the delivery of it has been previously ineffective. Our primary goal is to use God-given talents, abilities, and expertise in sports to gain access to lost people who are resistant to traditional means of evangelism or have never had the opportunity to hear the Truth of the Gospel message. Our secondary goal is to see other believers grow in their walk with Christ as they use their abilities for His glory and see peoples' lives impacted in return. Our desire is to help those we serve, athletes and coaches, understand their responsibility to be good stewards of their talents and to equip them to use those talents for God rather than for themselves. In essence, we want to take athletes, and we bring home missionaries.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Due to our location on the Isle of Palms in South Carolina (3 blocks to the beach), we have turned the upstairs of our educational building into a low-cost vacation retreat (rental) for all ministry workers (and their families), church organizations and college ministry groups to use.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: We offer accommodations for up to 24 people to come and stay for a relaxing vacation and to take advantage of the beautiful, Isle of Palm's beach just a short walk away and to tour the historic sights in the surrounding area.

Kristi Overton Johnson Ministries conducts prison ministry within the SC Department of Corrections through its Victorious Living Magazine, and Victorious Living Correspondence Outreach, and on-site prison events. KOJM and its prison outreaches were founded by North Carolina native Kristi Overton Johnson. Kristi was a world champion water skier who saw opportunities in prison to share her faith and lessons from her athletic career with inmates. Through her publication, mentoring program, inmate family support, and evangelical events, Kristi and her team encourage the hearts of inmates, equip their minds with God's truth, and empower them to live victorious lives. The VL magazine and prison outreach began in 2011 and has since impacted the lives of over 1 million inmates nationwide. In 2020, it expanded it's VL magazine and correspondence to the Hispanic prison population.

This organization provides information and support on topics such as Christian faith, addiction recovery, grief care, anxiety, re-entry, recidivism, prison life, isolation and loneliness, family dynamics, suicide awareness, and depression through its publication, Victorious Living. VL magazine is distributed in every state prison in SC and Kristi partners with the SC DOC to hold on-site evangelical events. Many members of the prison correspondence team who provide faith discipleship live in South Carolina. Support is provided to Spanish and English speaking inmates and their families. 

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: To equip the Body of Christ to manifest the gospel to vulnerable children.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: In Horry and Georgetown Counties we offer Pregnancy Counseling Services to women facing unplanned pregnancies, Families Count (Gospel Centered Parenting Classes for those families with children in Foster Care), and domestic and international adoption to place children in Gospel centered homes.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ: We meet with clients face to face, Gospel approach to parenting, and equipping the church with adoption and foster care resources.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Living Bread is a Christian non-profit counseling center with the mission to inspire hope and healing in those who struggle with eating disorders and who believe the lie that their bodies are unlovable. Living Bread accomplishes its mission through evidenced-based counseling and nutritional therapy, providing affordable care on a sliding scale, as well as providing mentorship and healing prayer. 

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: 

Our goal at Look Up Lodge Christian Camps is to use the Christian camp and retreat experience not only for the benefit of youth, but to fully engage and equip professional and lay church leaders.

This comes to pass as staff members motivated by His love and a desire to be of genuine service share their skills, their experience, their zest for wholesome fun, and their testimony about the more abundant life they are experiencing in Christ.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: 

Evangelistic programs for Christian church groups, of all ages.

Discipleship programs for Christian church groups, of all ages.

Discipleship trainings for the leaders of Christian churches.

Operating a discipleship school for college-age individuals.

Serving other Christian camp ministries through executive coaching and beneficial partnerships that advance evangelistic and discipleship efforts.

Hosting Christian groups and other nonprofit organizations.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Middle Tyger Community Center is a nonprofit organization located in Lyman, SC. Middle Tyger Community Center has multiple programs and services that serve both families and individuals to enhance their lives and empower them to reach their full potential.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: The Children and Family Services program provides support services for families in crisis and those who need help meeting their basic needs. By collaborating with area churches and community partners, the program is able to offer a food pantry, emergency utility and rental assistance, financial education, and special projects, such as: Christmas Assistance, after school tutoring, school supplies, and more. The program also provides in-depth case management and interventions to support families who are working to end the cycle of poverty.
Our counseling program provides services for children, individuals, and families on a sliding scale, ensuring that counseling is affordable for anyone who requests counseling services.
In partnership with Spartanburg County Adult Education, Middle Tyger Community Center offers GED and Adult Literacy Classes, as well as WIN/Work Keys Classes and testing.
Our childcare center: "This Is My Child" provides high-quality care and early education for children from six weeks until the child is 4K-eligible. Because we believe that all children should be able to receive quality childcare and have equal opportunities to learn, tuition is offered on a sliding scale based on income, and ABC Vouchers are accepted.
Our Adolescent Family Life Program provides comprehensive support for pregnant and parenting adolescents and empowers students to stay in school, become good parents, delay subsequent pregnancy, and break the cycle of generational poverty. Participants attend weekly "Healthy Lifestyles" Classes, covering topics from infant care to smart relationship skills to college and career development. Home visits and one-on-one mentoring are also essential parts of the program.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ: Middle Tyger Community Center strives everyday to be the “hands and feet” of Jesus Christ. We recognize that before Jesus shared the gospel, he fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and healed the sick. At MTCC, we focus on healing families and individuals physically, financily, and emotionally and building intentional relationships with them in order to serve the way Jesus served. Once that relationship is made and their needs are met, we are able to share why we do what we do as we are captivated by the hope that Jesus offers. This process takes more time and intentionality, but we are committed to making long term relationships with the families we serve.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Missing GRACE Foundation’s mission is to provide support, resources and education for families and professional care providers when there is loss of a baby, infertility or adoption challenges. We offer hope and healing opportunities to G.R.A.C.E. – Grieve, Restore, Arise, Commemorate and Educate. https://www.missingGRACE.org

Description of Your Organization's Activities: Missing GRACE Foundation is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Public Charity. The organization provides a wide range of resources and services to assist when there is the devastating news of a pregnancy loss, an infant loss, the heartbreaking disappointments of infertility or difficult adoption situations.

* GRACE Care Packages – for parents experiencing a pregnancy or infant loss and for hospitals, clinics and crisis pregnancy centers to give to their patients/clients
* Personal phone and online support
* Pregnancy and infant loss support groups – both in-person and online
* Educational classes
* Memorial events
* Volunteer opportunities – help with memorial events and fundraisers, assist with hand making items for our Care Packages (knitting, crocheting, sewing baby gowns out of donated wedding dresses, making jewelry and specialty gift items that are given to the families we serve).

Missing GRACE Foundation provides help to:

* Grieve in healthy ways by giving comfort, support, resources and opportunities to grieve together
* Restore holistically in a person's emotional, relational, physical and spiritual health
* Arise from the ashes – the dark place of deep sorrow and receive hope for a brighter day
* Commemorate loved ones in heaven – validating the significance of each life
* Educate through providing literature, classes, community outreach programs and events

To glorify God by its ministry of meals, services and fellowship for the frail and homebound in Spartanburg County.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose:

To provide quality services to our clients that will help theircompanies prosper and grow.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities:

Computer skills training

Office Management skills

Employment procurement

Food Bank

Transitional housing

Lunch on the lawn

Clothing and personal needs

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ:

Outreach Ministries

NCCAA uses intercollegiate athletics to further the Great Commission. Established in 1968, the NCCAA is an association of Christ-centered collegiate institutions whose mission is to use athletic competition as an integral component of education, evangelism, and encouragement.

Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a full-service, Hague accredited child placement agency, licensed in ten states, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, KY, MO, OK, SC, and TX. Nightlight's adoption programs include comprehensive international, domestic, embryo, foster care, and home study services.

Our vision for the future is to expand our foster care program to all Nightlight offices with the hopes of securing permanency for children in foster care, whether through family reunification or licensing foster families open to adoption.

Our mission is to share God’s love by: 

• Helping children, both domestic and international, to find loving families
• Assisting birthparents and genetic parents in making a wise and loving plan for their child’s future
• Securing permanency for children in foster care, whether through family reunification or certifying foster parents open to adoption
• Preparing and supporting families to be committed and effective parents to adoptive children
• Recognizing and advocating the personhood of pre-born children

 We are committed to carrying out our mission in a way that will bring glory and honor to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Anna Johnson (864) 293-6925 anna.opportunityhub@gmail.com

Opportunity Hub is a temporary family shelter for homeless children (under the age of 18) and their families. With the use of 14 host congregations, Opportunity Hub volunteers provide dinner and nighttime shelter in their congregations. By converting their Sunday School classrooms into separate family sleeping rooms, the family unit remains intact during this temporary stay. Opportunity Hub's mission is to help homeless children and their families become self-sufficient by brining together community resources and to provide essential human needs and life skills in a compassionate environment.
During the day, our families are tranported by the Opportunity Hub bus to our Day Center, which is located next to Morningside Baptist Church. At the Day Center, there are showers, laundry and kithcen facilities as well as internet access based computers. Opportunity Hub employs a dedicated case manager who works with the families so that they are receiving the life skills and resources needed to fulfull our mission. SPIHN also employs a Chaplain, who is on call 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, to fulfill our families spiritual needs. The Chaplain meets with the families at least twice a week ~ at the Day Center and at the host church congregation. The Chaplain also supplies any spirutal needs to the Opportunity Hub staff. Opportunity Hub also provides clinical counsel - whether it is for the adults, the children or family counsel. Opportunity Hub partners with Hope Remains Youth Ranch and Westgate Family Therapy. Finally, Opportunity Hub offers after care case management for our families as they transition from the program into permanent housing. The Opportunity Hub staff continue to work with the families to insure their continued success. Future programs include a life skills program dedicated soley to the children, transitional housing and a mentoring program.
Opportunity Hub is the only family shelter in Spartanburg to criminally background check and drug screen our families.

PK Outreach was founded by Patti Kelly in 1995. The mission of this ministry is to minister and mentor women, children and families in crisis. We meet people at their point of need and try to not only meet the immediate need, but become involved long term in working with them to become self-sufficient once again. We help re-locate families from local shelters into housing. Many of the families we work with are homeless or are living in sub-standard housing. We assist with rent, deposits and items they need to set up house in their new place. Most of the people we work with have found themselves in a crisis situation and need someone to come along beside them and show them the love of Christ and share with them that no matter what they have done, God has a plan and a purpose for their lives. We usually work long term with people because it has taken them time to get to where they are and it's never a quick fix. They need to be shown, without judging them, that someone does care. We help also with food, clothing, housing items,and other misc items they may need. We also provide Christmas sponsorship for children each year. We also give financial assistance to families for power bills,water bills and rent as our funds allow. Our goal through this ministry is to love people where they are and let them know that the Lord has a plan for them and that He loves them right where they are and so do we.

Distribute free of charge to any inmate or Chaplain who requests Chaplain Potter's Christ-Centered study guides. Minister healing from abortion trauma through Surrendering The Secret 8 week study course. Offers human trafficking awareness events. Partners with other ministries in order to provide assistance for re-entry into society.

PS I LOVE YOU Ministries exist to serve and assist foster children, orphans and at-risk children, as well as those who care for them, with the love of Christ.



PS I LOVE YOU Ministries reaches out as a support system to the foster child being brought into care and to the foster homes that are taking care of the kids. We support them be delivering a care bag to the foster child and any other ways of support. We help foster parents in the licensing process (financial needs) and are a source of encouragement to the foster child and parent. We raise awareness of the need for Christian foster parents. We also provide volunteers to care of the foster children during monthly Foster Parent Association meetings.



The Ultimate goal of our ministry is that every foster child in Spartanburg County has a loving, Godly home where their physical, emotional and spiritual needs are met and where no children are waiting for a home. We believe every child deserves a loving, caring Godly environment during this difficult transition period. When foster children are placed in Godly foster homes, this enables them to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ with these vulnerable kids.

Our mission is empower teens to resist drug use and make healthy lifestyle choices. We do this by providing breakthrough prevention programs that innovatively address the crisis of drug use and addiction among teens and their families.

We provide our signature prevention and intervention programming in two settings throughout Upstate SC: schools and churches. Our I RIZE program integrates its activities and services with partnering schools for the duration of an academic year to serve middle and high school students and their families. Our RIZE Above program provides select elements of the I RIZE program to teens and families in initiate cooperation with our church partners. Those I RIZE elements are enhanced by the delivery of the 10-week “Streams of Hope” family transformation program.

For both programs, we provide the support and resources to teens and families via our Community Connector for Families in Crisis. We also provide scholarships for therapeutic mental health counseling, behavioral health treatment, and equine therapy to facilitate the achievement of lasting peace and prosperity found through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In the coming years, we hope to offer our programs statewide.

Empowers people in nutritional poverty by increasing access to fresh, healthy food.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: School Ministries is a nonprofit that exists to partner with communities across America bringing hope and purpose in the lives of public school students and their families through Christian Released Time Bible Education. The mission of School Ministries is to assist local communities in the creation, support, and growth of Released Time Bible Education programs. Additionally, the organization promotes Released Time research and national visibility while creating materials and training for local programs. Released Time Education is a legal means for providing religious instruction to students of all ages during the school day. It is a voluntary program that uses no tax dollars, is conducted off-campus, and requires parental permission.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: 

There are 50 million public school students in America. Only 25% of them attend any type of religious services regularly.  School Ministries is a national organization that equips Christians to provide Bible courses to K-12 public school students during the school day through a little-known law called Released Time.  Public school students who would never otherwise learn the Bible are responding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ at record rates!

How do we assist Released Time Bible Education programs?

By HELPING NEW PROGRAMS FORM AND LAUNCH with step-by-step instructions and guidance, assistance with non-profit status, legal assistance with the laws and communications, forms and documents, curriculum, training, background checks, insurance, and more.

By ENCOURAGING, EQUIPPING, AND EDUCATING EXISTING PROGRAMS through in-person and virtual training and counsel, bi-annual conference, model and best practice resources, and group discount services.

Selah Grey Child and Family Services’ Mission: “To bringhope and support to hurting children and families”.

Selah Grey Child and Family Services’ Vision: “Our vision is to be a leader in guiding children andfamilies through the process of healing from traumatic experiences.”

Along with victims of trauma we aim to providewrap-around services to families with special needs children. Navigating services for special needschildren can be a daunting task without support. We are here to offer that support in the ways ofcounseling, education, advocacy, mentors, support groups and referrals.

Partners with local churchesto form support groups for trauma victims and special needs parents. Offering the love of Christ tothose who are hurting and feel helpless through counseling and church referrals.

David Sullivan: david.sullivan@setfreealliance.org

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Allison Drew: grants@setfreealliance.org

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose:

Set Free is on a mission to provide freedom through Christ.We are not a strictly humanitarian organization, but rather we are an evangelical organization thathappens to do humanitarian work. We understand that we cannot make disciples of Christ if childrenare enslaved and have no way of hearing of who Christ is and how much He loves them. We cannotmake disciples of Christ if a mother is too weak from hunger to listen and absorb the Good News. Wecannot make disciples of Christ if a father dies because of water-borne disease, never hearing thename Jesus Christ.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities:

Rescue Child Slaves and Child SlaveryPrevention. Medical Aid through Mobile Medical Clinics. Clean Water to Villages in Need throughDeep Water Well Digging. Plant Churches-everything we do is to bring the Love of Jesus, we do thisthrough providing these basic human needs with our main focus being on planting Churches/ makingdisciples of Christ being our main goal. Being Set Free in Christ!

The mission of Sidewalk Hope is to positively impact the lives of children in the heart of our city and the communities in which they live through the hope of Jesus Christ.

Sidewalk Hope is a mobile children's church that makes weekly site visits year-round to four inner-city housing developments in Spartanburg: Prince Hall, Crescent Hill, Collins Park, and Barkscale Apartments. These housing developments are known to be filled with poverty, abuse, violence, hunger and gang recruitment providing an environment that creates a desperate battle for the hearts of the children in our city.

SonShine Club is a faith based 501c3 nonprofit. We provide a day camp/VBS for special needs adults.It is our desire to shine the love of Jesus into the hearts and lives of special needs adults and their caregivers. SonShine Club is for friends(special needs adult) age 18 and above that functions well in a group setting and that require minimal assistance. The day camp consists of praise and worship music, bible study, hot lunch,arts and crafts, fitness, and music therapy. We meet the 1st & 3rd Saturday of each month at First Baptist downtown Spartanburg at 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. Some caregivers will drop their friend off and use this time as respite. Others will stay and enjoy the day with us. Come visit with us and help us love our friends!!

South Carolina Christian Foundation (SCCF) is one of a growing number of Christian Foundations that are dedicated to increasing the giving capacity of Christians assisting them to impact their communities. South Carolina Christian Foundation, the only Christian foundation based in this state, is a 501(c)(3) public charity offering counsel for flexible and tax-wise giving solutions while encouraging Christian generosity and philanthropy.

Our financial services include a variety of funds that help generous individuals, families, and businesses accomplish their charitable giving goals. The Donor Advised Fund, our most used service, provides most of the benefits of a private foundation yet without the legalities and costs often associated. In addition to working with donors toward achieving their goals, South Carolina Christian Foundation serves our donors to maximize their time.

Ultimately, South Carolina Christian Foundation is a convener of groups and a connector within the Christian community. Our goal is to unite the wealth within the body of Christ to the work within the body of Christ. We partner with Kingdom-minded individuals and businesses to provide avenues for personal and corporate giving. We work with wealth managers and financial advisors in accomplishing the giving goals of their clients. We serve local ministries by raising awareness of their presence and activities even while promoting their needs to those who can best meet them.

Thank you for visiting our online presence and learning more about South Carolina Christian Foundation.

The mission of Spartanburg District 1 Released Time is to teach District 1 public School students Biblical truth and present the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. We try to achieve the fulfillment of this mission through classes designed to teach basic Biblical truths as they relate to the lives of our students. The focus of our classes is much more than information. These classes exist for the purpose of transformation.
Since the fall of 2005, District 1 Released Time has been dedicated to teaching the Bible to middle school students in each of the district's three middle schools?Mabry, Campobello-Gramling, and Landrum. During the 2011-12 school year over half of all seventh and eighth-grade students in District 1 were involved the Released Time ministry! With the addition of the high school class at Landrum High in the fall of 2009 and then Chapman High in 2010, and the addition of Bible 2 at both high schools, there have been almost 500 high school students involved in Bible education?not just once a week, but every day. The students are released from their schools and transported by District 1 Released Time to a convenient off-campus location. Since these classes are offered for credit, we use a variety of activities to obtain grades. In Bible 1, we give an overview of the entire Bible with a focus on the Old Testament and in Bible 2 we focus on the New Testament and discipleship.
Of the nearly 600 students enrolled in our 5 combined programs each school year over 70 make decisions to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! In addition many students renew their commitment to follow Christ. It is amazing and humbling to think that because of the opportunity to go into the public schools, many students are now experiencing and will continue to experience new life in Christ Jesus and a new love and appreciation for God's Word, and that these students will become Christian leaders out in the world influencing many others to come to Christ. Through this program, we are able to put God, the Bible, and prayer back into the public school system!

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: To make an impact in the Upstate through Christian Love, Fellowship, and Outreach while addressing individual needs.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Before the pandemic, the soup kitchen opened at 8:30 for participants to come in and fellowship. Also, they had the opportunity to use the health fitness room for exercise, participate in computer classes, bible activities, and bingo before the meal was served. There was prayer before activities, and blessing of the food always took place. First Baptist of Boiling Springs have conducted sessions of bible study for the participants in the past. The participants have access to the Pastor who prays and talks with those requesting his service.

Since the pandemic, everything has changed and we offer produce and other items with a boxed take home meal. Many are asking when they will be able to come back inside. We are concerned about keeping everyone safe, as well as, the staff. Many of the participants expressed their thankfulness for a safe place to come each week and fellowship, Several expressed that they suffer from depression and this was a way for them to be with others instead of being at home alone. Everyone has to wear a mask, and have hands sanitized before entering. We are planning to conduct temperature checks since the numbers seem to be increasing in the state. Participants are still give the toiletry bags once a month. We are now giving blessing bags weekly.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ: The gospel is shared through prayer, bible study sessions, biblical activities, and access to the Pastor for prayer and counseling upon request.
Some participants also participate in the Wednesday Bible Study Class at the church from 12:00-1:00 on Wednesdays. Also, a few will come to the 7:00 Bible Study.

Connecting people with hope and love. Mobilizing the Church of God for the mission of God. Partnering with others to encourage transformational living. Alleviating suffering in our community. Communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Training others who will train others to serve and love our neighbors.

**This ministry is operating under the umbrella of First Baptist Spartanburg therefore using their EIN**

the elizabeth project is a women's ministry encouraging "women ministering to women" in the name of Jesus Christ. We offer Bible studies, support for area ministries, and Bible study resources and materials for groups sharing Jesus Christ with women.

The Journey exists to reach those on the outside of hope looking in - the poor, hurting, challenged, addicted, and forgotten. Our primary area of ministry focus is the inner city of Spartanburg. We desire to see and experience city transformation through the sharing and living out of the gospel among hurting people in our midst. Join us as we love the city to life!

Our Mission is to help men find sobriety, life, hope and faith. Our facility is a 6-month live-rehabilitation. The first 30 days consist of counseling, class, and studies. From there we offer job training classes and life skills classes, then on to working in the field.

Our organization serves adults and families through our social service office and serves at-risk children and single parent families through our Community Center. We provide assistance with utilities, food, clothing at the Administrative office and an After School program with academic tutoring, computer assisted learning, character building skills, weight loss activieis and athletic activities in the Community Center.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Thornwell believes in a world where everyone belongs to a thriving family. Every day, and for 148 years, we address the child welfare crisis at the root level, the family level, to prevent instability or breakdown before it happens. Thornwell’s enduring mission and continuum of care services include foster and residential care, educational support, family services, and life skills training to meet children and families wherever they are in their journey to healing. When a family gains access to loving support, resources, and care, it can change just about everything.

Mission Statement: Thornwell serves to prevent child abuse and neglect, to build up and reunite families, and to support healthy communities in the name of Jesus Christ.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Thornwell is compelled to provide a holistic continuum of care model where children can build resilience and recover from trauma while their family actively engages in parenting support/training, family therapy, and transitional services. Thornwell is seeking to intervene and address the full family system.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: Our Mission is to guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others, and experience outdoor adventure.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: Trail Life USA is a Church-Based, Christ-Centered, Boy-Focused mentoring and discipleship journey that speaks to the heart of a boy. Established on timeless values derived from the Bible and set in the context of outdoor adventure, boys from Kindergarten through 12th grade are engaged in a Troop setting by male mentors where they are challenged to grow in character, understand their purpose, serve their community, and develop practical leadership skills to carry out the mission for which they were created.

Water is essential to human life.  It is the center of economic and social development and vital to maintain health, grow food, generate energy, manage the environment, and create jobs. Clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights. When people do not have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, the impact on the population is devastating, leading to a global crisis. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2015 global risk report, the Global Water Crisis is now the number one global risk based on its impact on society.

Currently, 2.2 billion people around the world lack access to safe water. That’s one-third of the world’s population.  According to a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), more than 263 million people spent over 30 minutes round trip collecting water from an unimproved source. An estimated 4.2 billion people live without adequate sanitation, and one person dies every 37 seconds from water-related illnesses.  Children are the most affected: an estimated 760,000 children under the age of five die each year from diarrheal diseases globally. Women and children spend hours walking an average of 3 miles each day collecting water that is contaminated and will likely make their families sick. The global water crisis is real and it is urgent.

Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has used innovative technology and engineering expertise to provide access to safe water for more than 7 million people in 57 countries. Water Mission has over 400 staff members working around the world in permanent country programs located in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.  Notably, Charity Navigator has awarded Water Mission its top four-star rating for 15 consecutive years, a distinction shared by only 1% of charities rated by the organization. 

Water Mission was founded in 2001 by George and Molly Greene, who at the time owned an environmental engineering and analytical firm. They decided to apply the same engineering discipline toward a non-profit endeavor focused on providing safe water and sanitation solutions for people in developing countries and disaster situations. 

Water Mission was born out of the need for safe water as a result of a disaster, responding in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Since then, we have provided relief following some of the world’s most devastating natural and humanitarian disasters, including most recently: Texas Arctic Storms; Earthquakes in Indonesia; Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras; Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas; Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh; Cyclone Idai in Malawi and Mozambique; Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia; Refugees in Uganda and Tanzania; and many, many more. 

The heart of our ministry includes, but is not limited to women who were sexually abused as children. It’s our desire to see a woman from any walk of life who struggles with whatever it is she’s struggling with to find that beautiful exchange that can only be found through Jesus Christ.

Simply stated, we can’t muster up enough willpower to truly forgive on our own.  It’s through Christ in us that we are able to experience true freedom when we exchange our deepest hurts for His greatest grace. 

To state it another way, it’s by allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us as only He can.  

Those to whom we minister find it comforting to experience His healing  through the sweetness of His presence as we pray through situations together.

There is no charge for the services offered by Wellspring SC at The Wellhouse.  Funding comes from Wellspring Treasures Thrift Store.

Woodruff Area Soup Kitchen provides a hot meal to the needy Monday - Friday. On Tuesday evening we provide a hot meal and a spiritual message to the adults, and have a program for the children. Also, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we have a devotion prior to the meal.

We currently have a team available to provide discipleship to those in need. We continue to reach out to the Hispanic through spanish Bibles and CD'S.

Welcoming the Stranger. Rebuilding Lives. Building Strong Community.  

Refugees and immigrants bravely leave behind everything familiar to seek safety for their families and the chance for a new start. At World Relief Upstate SC, we partner with the local church and volunteers to come alongside these new neighbors and help them move from the chaos of war and persecution to stability in their new home giving them a foundation for future generations to thrive.

Mission Statement or Ministry Purpose: To reach every kid with the gospel in South Carolina. To allow space for teen moms to grow in their relationship with Jesus by connecting with other teen moms in their communities and mentors that encourage growth achieved by loving, positive relationships and having some of their tangible needs met. We want to help them focus on the bigger picture, how God made them to be and how to raise the next generation to live in this world as a children of God. We are focused on the furthest out kid, the kid that may not have a lot of opportunity to see positivity in their world, the isolated kid and the over looked kid. These are our prayers for our community.

Brief Description of Your Organization's Activities: We host weekly gatherings that accommodate teen mammas and their babies. We provide meals, a safe place to gather, community and bible studies in a fun welcoming environment. We have amazing volunteers (that are background checked) to care for babies after dinner. We play games and have fun skits that show the love of Jesus. Outside of our events, we hang out with mammas and their babies at parks, meet them for coffee, take them on errands and walk out our faith with them. We share family meals with them, shed tears and help them find essentials within their community. When they need something we help them find the best ways to get it. We have a running list of counselors, pediatricians, as well as, scholarships for them or their babies to go to school.

Manner in which your organization shares the gospel of Jesus Christ: We are a Christ centered program. We teach the whole bible old testament and new. We believe in the holy trinity...father, son and holy spirit. We meet kids where they are and get to know them enough to speak in to their lives. We invest in kids with the hope of discipleship in the future.