Heavens Gateway Ministries Case Study

While the women in the church have an organized discipleship effort happening, there is not a concerted effort to grow men into faithful followers of Jesus Christ. The men of the church need a program where discipleship happens intentionally. The scripture that First Baptist Church uses for it’s vision is Matthew 5:13. The City on a Hill theme comes for this verse. The idea is that we should be salt and light to the world so that others will know Him through us.

Along with that victims need to be shown that there is a way out of this terrible life the have become accustom to. Emily Fitchpatrick has decided to devote her life to just that. Her nonprofit “On Eagles Wings Ministries,” is designed to help trafficking victims find worth and through that escape from their horrible circumstances (Orlando). Women involved with human trafficking feel worthless and because of this they will stay where they have relative stability. In the darkest parts of the American women are forced to use their bodies to pay for mundane needs like the rent. With human trafficking still being a hidden and rather unknown crime, Capt, Joel Shores, a police officer in Cleveland county, North Carolina stated that “It’s easier

The Plain City food pantry collects donations from people and/or stores like Wal-mart, Wendy’s etc. They also have a small thrift store that they run based off only donations. Their mission is to contribute to the small community of Plain City by providing food, toiletries, clothes etc. They want to feed people who struggle and can’t afford to put food on the table or clothes on their back. The specific area they provide for is the locals in Plain City. The schools in Plain City will have food drives and all the donations would go to straight to the pantry.

The way River City Food Bank works is that they open to the public from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm. They provide many services for single and multiple families. Anyone who lives in Sacramento and reports that they or their dependents are living at or below the federal poverty line are eligible to receive these benefits. This site relies on the help of volunteers from around the Sacramento area. The day I went to River City Food Bank, there were twenty volunteers on this site ready to help and assist. My role was

Evangelhouse Christian Academy is a private, parent-choice therapeutic boarding school for girls. You could say it’s more than a school, it’s a place for troubled teens. Located in St. Martinville, LA and includes 25 acres of beautiful scenery, the young Christian girls who attend will have a wonderful place to become rooted, grow and mature into the young women they should be, not delinquent.

Thesis Statement: The Houston Food Bank uses the efforts of volunteers as well as donations to support the reduction of hunger in the community.

Trinity Services Group strives to maintain competitive pricing on commissary goods. These pricing strategies are firmly in line with our competitors. The pricing recently presented to Eddy County, NM is identical to the pricing for all of our warehouses throughout the country. Additionally, Trinity Services has not raised commissary prices at the Eddy County facility in over 2 years. Unfortunately, the need for price increases has come with the increase in food, shipping, and labor costs.

The Fruitful Blessing Outreach will assist with reintegration of the homeless back into the community providing homes and jobs. Programs established in Alachua County will achieve reintegration of the homeless population. The Fruitful Blessing Outreach places the homeless in contact with the appropriate agencies responsible for finding them jobs in the community, and low-income housing. “Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry” are one of the organizations set in place to help the homeless community within Alachua

This particular article is written by Patricia A. Duffy who states that low income families use the food pantry for emergence assistance for food, aside from the traditional government programs; this article suggests that food pantries are heavily used for emergency food (Duffy). The article focuses more on lower income families instead of the homeless. It compares food stamp programs along with the food pantry to understand how they both tie in to one another. There are various statistics and interviews of those who participate in such programs across the nation.

Community First! Village is sponsored by Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a catholic charity that has has grown to working every night, all year long, providing food, clothing,and hygiene products to the homeless in surrounding cities of Austin. They have served over 5 million meals with the help of 19,000 volunteers. Their recent innovation (Community First!) is a 27-acre development that has been building a tiny home community for homeless people to buy for inexpensive prices. The village features miniature neighborhoods of homes, a church, garden, medical facility, market, movie theater, and other amenities. The project continues to grow as donations and volunteers come in for construction of housing and purchases of needed materials and goods. As of now, the village has housed almost 200 former homeless men and women. Mobile Loaves & Fishes continues to house more people as construction is completed and word has spread to other major cities of the work this organization has founded and grown.

Local non-profit organization Overflo Outreach Ministries, Inc. is set to launch its campaign to nominate its president Gerald Riley to receive the Good Neighbor Award during this year’s Steve Harvey Neighborhood Awards on May 17, 2016 from 6am -6pm. During this time people all over the world can jump on the website www.neighborhoodawards.com and nominate Gerald for the Good Neighbor Award. Not only is the organization looking to nominate its leader, they are also completing a fundraiser for the organization to fund their summer mentoring program. Last month morning radio host Steve Harvey walked on the treadmill and used other exercise equipment for 4 hours all while hosting his show every day to raise money for his nonprofit organization.

The homeless and low-income families have numerous resources available like the Interfaith Church that offers a Soup Kitchen Supplemental Nutrition program that is made up of these sources: commodity supplemental food program, emergency food program, food assistance, and USDA commodity program. The number of soup kitchen meals served peaked in July to just over 50,000, and were the lowest in April at just under 40,000. Majority of their clientele is homeless adults. Another good resource is Social services that can assist with charitable healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or S.N.A.P. These programs help to provide access to health care and proper food and nutrition. The Affordable Housing Project offers studio apartments, 1-bedroom

Roughly between 2009 and 2010 the amount of New Yorkers visiting the food pantries increased to 200,000 (Ratner 3). Part of the increase in the amount of homeless at the pantries is because of the

Volunteering at a local soup kitchen has become an important activity that humbles me, having witnessed the difficulties this population faces. The Christian Medical Association Homeless Meals Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine will allow me to continue this type of community outreach.

Many area charities focus on the short term survival needs of the area’s homeless population, and provide food and supplies to them by traveling from area to area to reach them. These charities policy feed anyone. From the hardcore homeless population to a family down on their luck, their patrons include drug addicts, criminals and vagrants just passing through town. They have information on the resources available, but it is not standardized and these organizations and individuals are not coordinated in any