Make your life count by making
someone else's life better! The following is a list
of just a few of the ministries and organizations that
New Hope supports and encourages you to participate
in.
In addition to these opportunities
listed below, we offer short-term missions trips from
time-to-time. Let us know how we can help you love others!
CCNO
(Correction Center of Northwest Ohio - Stryker)
Visitation to help inmates through spiritual counseling
and encouragement.
Cherry
Street Mission (Toledo)
This mission works to transform lives from homelessness,
chemical dependency, and poverty and dependency to self-sufficiency
through an abundant life in Christ Jesus. They provide
emergency shelter, meals, rehabilitation, literacy and
vocational training, resource networking and job placement
assistance in the Toledo, Ohio area.
Volunteers can donate cash, stocks, bonds,
clothing, canned goods, automobiles, boats, real estate,
collectibles, bequests, life insurance, charitable trusts,
and donor-advised funds. Time can be give to help with
food service, kitchen clean up, mentoring, administrative
help, education, clothing bank, or food bank.
Community
Pregnancy Centers of Northwest Ohio
A Christian agency providing free assistance for unplanned
pregnancies, post-abortion trauma counseling, and education
about abstinance until marriage. Volunteers can be trained
to assist with counseling, answer the hot-line phone,
or work in the office. Donations can be made of cribs,
mattresses, car seats, diapers, towels and washcloths,
blankets, baby shampoo, baby lotion, wipes, pacifiers,
baby food, and much more.
Eastern
European Aid Association (Romanian Project)
Coats and winter shoes are donated to help orphan children
in Romania through the WBCL Radio collection center.
Fort Wayne Rescue
Mission
A ministry to the homeless in the Fort Wayne, Indiana
area. Rescue Ministries provides food, shelter, clothing
and a hope for the future to those in troubled circumstances.
Assistance is provided in education, employment, addiction
recovery, and permanent housing.
Volunteers can teach
classes, coordinate recreational activities, provide
parties for birthdays and holidays, wrap gifts at Christmas,
provide transportation, conduct chapel services, help
with cleaning and repairs, cut and style hair, serve
meals, or assist with office work. Donations
of money and personal care products are welcomed.
Charis House
533 West Washington Boulevard
Fort Wayne, IN
(219) 426-8123
The Mission
301 West Superior Street
Fort Wayne, IN
(219) 426-7357
Gideon's
International
The Gideons International serves as an extended missionary
arm of the church. Their sole purpose is to win men,
women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ through association for service, personal
testimony, and distributing the Bible in the human traffic
lanes and streams of everyday life. Bibles are given
freely at hotels and motels, hospitals, nursing homes,
homeless shelters, schools, colleges, and prisions.
Bibles are also distributed to military personnel, law
enforcement personnel, fire fighters, and Emergency
Medical Technicians.
Volunteers can support free Bible distribution
by donating funds.
H.E.L.P.
(Helping with Emergencies of Local People)
This local Williams County agency distributes funds
to those in financial need for utility shut offs, gasoline,
and medical needs. It also handles government food distribution
for the Williams County area. Volunteers can donate
money or food items.
(419) 636-7199
Operation
Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children
in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled
shoe boxes and the Good News of God’s love. This
program of Samaritan’s Purse provides an opportunity
for people of all ages to be involved in a simple, hands-on
missions project while focusing on the true meaning
of Christmas—Jesus Christ, God’s greatest
gift. Along with shoe box gifts, millions of children
are given Gospel booklets in their own language.
Shoe boxes are usually collected during
the week before Thanksgiving in November. Volunteers
can donate shoe box gifts, assist with local collection,
or inspect shoe box gifts at a processing center.
The Sanctuary of
Williams County Homeless Shelter
A local ministry which helps the homeless find apartments,
obtain jobs, develop a budget, and locate permanent
housing. Volunteers can donate money or items such as
pillows, blankets, sheets, soap, shampoo, paper products,
dishes, furniture, pots and pans, or bicycles. You can
also volunteer to help clean, baby-sit, run errands,
drive people to appointments, and greet the homeless
when they first arrive.
Youth for Christ
Aims to provide a Christian support environment for
young teenagers between 13 to 21 years of age. The program
is oriented towards meeting the needs of our young people
to belong, to be motivated, to be useful, to be good
examples, to be Christian witnesses and respond to God’s
call to holiness.
Cherry
Street Mission (Toledo)
Community
Pregnancy Centers of Northwest Ohio
Gideon's
International
Operation
Christmas Child